Criminal law value of using electronic and information-telecommunication networks as an element of the method of illegal selling of narcotics

The article discusses the problematic provisions of the method of crime as an element of its objective side. Approaches to understanding the method of crime are analysed, new methods of crime are considered, including methods an element of which is the use of electronic and information-telecommunication networks; a proposal to criminalise certain methods is made. The use of electronic and information-telecommunication networks for the purpose of selling narcotics is only one element of the method of illegal sale. Elements of the method of illegal selling of narcotics via electronic and information-telecommunication networks differ significantly from the elements of the usual method of marketing them by the behaviour of the trafficker and the purchaser of narcotics. When selling narcotics via electronic and information-telecommunication networks, narcotics are acquired for money only. There are no such forms of marketing as presenting, exchanging narcotics, etc. The greater use of electronic and information-communication networks in various spheres of life objectively raises the issue of an increasingly active struggle against the growing number of criminal uses of these types of communications. In this regard, it is advisable to discuss the issue of inclusion of the commission of a crime via electronic and information-telecommunication networks (including the Internet) in the number of circumstances aggravating punishment (Article 63 of the RF Criminal Code).

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