Organizational principles of the investigation of illegal sale of narcotic drugs carried out through the use of electronic and data telecommunication networks

The paper aims at investigating the criminalistic nature of crime investigation specified in such tasks as clarifying the concept of organisation of the investigation, its principles, levels, elements and structure, forensic complexity of the investigation in relation to the activities of the investigator in cases of illegal sale of narcotic drugs by using electronic and data telecommunication networks. The research uses a number of methods of cognition, especially the system and activity methods, methods of factor analysis, formalisation and idealisation. The topicality of issues connected with the organisation of crime investigation is predetermined by two interrelated factors: an increase in the number of crimes that tend to get more complicated and lagging behind the criminalistic theory in developing organizational provisions that would take into account the increasing forensic complexity of investigating such crimes. This goal can be achieved provided that, along with criminal procedure, forensic activity predetermining the need to consider precisely the forensic aspects of crime investigation organization is recognised. Following this approach makes it possible to successfully consider the question of organizational levels by specifying methodological and tactical forensic levels of organisation of the investigation. The criterion of the scope of the organisational methodological and tactical forensic measures is the nature of the general and particular investigative situations that determine the strategy and tactics of the investigator's activity during the verification of the crime report, as well as in the initial, subsequent and final stages of forensic activity. Further complication of criminal activity makes it possible to believe that it is controversial to consider any circumstances of the forensic complexity of investigating crimes as equal factors to understanding the dominant factor of the forensic complexity of investigating certain crimes, including illegal sale of narcotic drugs using electronic or data telecommunications networks (including the Internet) - Part 2 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. It is this factor that predetermines the nature of other factors of preliminary investigation complexity. The comparison of the organizational principles of the investigation and the principles of interaction of the investigator shows functional interrelation of either of them, as well as their derivation of the latter from the former.

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