Based on the analysis of the legislative acts in force and the jurisprudence, the article concludes that in spite of many tries to contest the competence of the public prosecutors in concerned legal relations, at present the public prosecutors control the implementation of the anti-corruption legislation by the persons holding elective posts in municipal authorities, acting in the frame of prosecutors’ supervision over legislation implementation or over observance of the rights and freedoms of a person. The paper notes that public prosecutors carry out inspections of the specific persons holding elective posts in municipal authorities (“selective” inspections) as well as all persons holding elective posts in municipal authorities (“solid” inspections). The author recommends that carrying out of the “solid” inspections should be restricted to a specific grounds. On examining the procedure the public prosecutor to contest a refuse of the representative body to make answer for the corruption status delict, the author discovers a conceptual problem: if a court recognizes illegal the representative body decision to refuse of early termination of powers, such a fact is not a ground to early terminate powers of the involved person. Therefore public prosecutors claim to oblige the representative body to decide to early terminate powers of the person or to re-examine the question. The observed jurisprudence shows that the satisfaction of the above claim does not guarantee the restoration of the legality, because there is no legal nor factual mechanism to compel the representative body to make a certain decision. In view of that, public prosecutors started to claim a court decision to early terminate of powers of persons holding elective posts in municipal authorities. The findings have allowed to elaborate recommendations for law-making authorities to state in details the involvement of the public prosecutors in the field: to regulate in details their powers and the forms of its implementation or to provide a mechanism to make persons holding elective posts in municipal authorities responsible for corruption delicts with no public prosecutor participation

elective posts in municipal authorities, early termination of powers, loss of confidence, corruption delict, powers of public prosecutor

Praskova Svetlana Vasilyevna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, Institute of Legal Research, Baikal State University (11, Leninа st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0003-4518-3659, ResearcherID: AAC-8601-2020, e-mail: savap@mail.ru

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