Organized Fraud Related to with the Implementation of Vehicles: Criminal-Legal and Victimological Features

The relevance. Currently, there are problems in Russian law enforcement practice related to the criminal legal assessment of fraud committed by organized groups in the field of motor transport turnover. The high risk, the prevalence of organized fraud, the subject of which are vehicles, the constant modification of the methods of its Commission cause a further increase in victimization of citizens involved in transactions of purchase and sale of vehicles. An effective way to counter such fraud is to bring information about the specifics and methods of its Commission to the persons involved in the sale of vehicles.
The purpose of this article is to systematize and deepen knowledge about organized fraud related to the sale of vehicles.
Objectives: to study common methods of committing organized fraud, the subject of which is vehicles, to analyze the characteristics of victims of it, to develop recommendations for its victimological prevention.
Methodology. Methods of analysis, synthesis, technical-legal, system-structural and formal-logical methods are used in the process of work.
Results of the study are distinguished by their theoretical and applied nature, and the methods and characteristics of victims of organized fraud, the subject of which is vehicles, are highlighted. Since the mechanism of fraud has become more complex and diverse, it is associated with vehicle theft, organized crime, laundering of proceeds of crime, and combating it with measures of criminal law and victimological impact.
Conclusin. Based on the results obtained on the methods and victims of fraud related to the sale of vehicles, the directions of using victimological information in the prevention of its commission are proposed.

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