Salimonov I. The Criminal responsibility for fraud of purchasers and customers

The complex analysis of the most actual theoretical and practical questions of the criminal responsibility for a fraud of purchasers and customers as the characteristic crime encroaching on the rights and legitimate interests of consumers is given in the dissertation. The following questions are investigated: formation of system of a criminal-legal protection of citizens-consumers; some important questions of criminalization and decriminalization of unlawful acts against rights and legal interests of consumers; concept of the crimes encroaching on the rights and legitimate interests of citizens-consumers; efficiency of a criminal-legal protection of consumers; the general criminal-legal characteristics of the fraud of purchasers or customers, such as: object and objective side, subject and subjective side of this crime; special questions of qualification of the researching crime. There were made some proposals to article 225 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which are relevant to the object-matter of the crime, signs of the objective side and the subject of this criminally liable delict.