Gareev Amir Aidarovich

The article examines the actual problems of qualifying a crime under Article 289 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity") in the context of its differentiation from related crimes against state power and its interests, service in local governments. The composition of the crime is analyzed in detail, which makes it possible to distinguish the norm from other related crimes. The purpose of the work is to analyze the legal problems that arise when distinguishing the corpus delicti provided for in Article 289 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation from other crimes, and to develop criteria for accurate qualification. Based on the study of judicial practice and doctrinal sources, collisions and problems arising in the qualification of an act have been identified, which form the main tasks: to study the relationship between a person's official position and obtaining benefits from entrepreneurial activity; to analyze difficulties in distinguishing the motivation for committing a crime (personal interest, selfish purpose). The issue of competition between general and special norms in the context of a set of criminal acts is considered separately. The paper suggests specific criteria for differentiating the composition: the nature of the use of official position, the specifics of the benefits, the characteristics of a special entity. Recommendations are formulated to eliminate law enforcement contradictions, including clarifying the qualifying features in the explanations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and clarifying the criminal law features of the composition in relation to this category of cases. The provisions and conclusions formulated in the study have practical significance and can be in demand both in law-making activities in improving criminal legislation and in judicial practice in order to ensure uniformity in the qualification of the acts under consideration

illegal participation in business activities, qualification of crimes, delineation of crimes, related crimes, abuse of official authority, receiving bribes, law enforcement conflicts, objective signs of a crime, subjective signs of a crime

Gareev Amir Aidarovich – Postgraduate Student, Faculty of Law, National Research University Higher School of Economics (20, Myasnitskaya st., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation), RSCI Author ID: 972212, ORCID: 0009-0006-6518-0833, e-mail: amir.gareev.1999@mail.ru

Gareev A.A. Kvalifikatsiya nezakonnogo uchastiya v predprinimatel'skoy deyatel'nosti: problemy razgranicheniya so smezhnymi sostavami prestupleniy [Qualification of Illegal Participation in Entrepreneurial Activity: Problems of Differentiation from Related Crimes] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2026, no 2 (113), pp. 86–94. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2026.2.86 (in Russian).

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