INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES TO PREVENT AND COUNTERACT CRIMES IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES SPHERE

Abstract

The article describes the state of information technologies to prevent and counteract crimes in economic activities sphere and the perspectives of their development at the new historical stage in Ukraine S development. It points out a considerable role of fictitious economic entities in committing and concealing a wide array of criminal offenses. Taking into account the multiplicity of subjects in the investigation and trial, the article focuses on the need to integrate the systems of information and analytical support for the activity of oversight institutions making it a unified information space for national law enforcement, judicial and other bodies as well as officials, institutionally linked with economic entities in different situations and at various stages of the latter’s functioning starting from their establishment to the termination of their operation. In order to increase the efficiency of efforts aimed at preventing and counteracting crimes in economic activities sphere with the use of innovative techniques, the article argues in favor of creating a unified information space for oversight, law enforcement and judicial bodies, raising the level of informational interaction with the respective bodies of foreign states and international organizations.