Author

Karimova S.S.

Title of article

Inquiry officer and investigator should be empowered to impose monetary penalty

Section

Section 7. Criminal рrocedural review

Issue, year

3 (33) 2015

Abstract

The ambiguity of legal nature of monetary penalty as a measure of criminal procedural compulsion and low interest of courts and preliminary investigation bodies in ensuring the appearance of summoned persons through its application is considered. The main problems of imposing monetary penalty at the stage of preliminary investigation are noted: 1) insufficient elaboration of the procedure of imposing monetary penalty at above-mentioned stage (this procedure is considerably simplified in the RF Code of Administrative Offences) respecting the number of subjects having this right, terms of drawing up a report of imposing monetary penalty and sanctions imposed for failure to pay it; 2) duration of this procedure nullifying the purpose of considered measure; 3) restriction of   investigators’ procedural independence: investigators cannot make independent decisions on imposing monetary penalty for failure to appear in court. The objections regarding infringement of constitutional rights (“no one can be deprived of property otherwise than by a court decision”) are contradicted by interpretation of the other constitutional provision – the constitutional rights can be limited by the federal law only. The author proves the necessity to empower investigator and inquiry officer to impose monetary penalty at preliminary investigation stage (with consent of the investigative body’s head), which allows to reduce the number of failures to appear in court (mass evasion) and cases of breaking the terms of legal investigation. It’s necessary to approve the complete list of valid reasons for failure to appear in court for victims and witnesses summoned by the body conducting criminal proceedings.

Keywords

criminal procedural compulsion, monetary penalty, preliminary investigation, court appearance, investigator, inquiry officer.

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