The Use of Computer Traces in the Identification, Disclosure, and Investigation of Theft in Agro-Industrial Complexes

Analysis of statistical data on changes in the number of economic crimes committed and the number of crimes committed using high technologies, and the reasons that contributed to that, allows us to establish the interconnection. It is the economic sphere in the 21st century that is becoming the most relevant object of criminal encroachment given conspiratorial opportunities in the conditions of computerization of society. For the reasons above, computer traces acquire special relevance in the identification, disclosure, and investigation of economic crimes, special knowledge about the features which may entail the destruction, damage, or modification of the information available about that. The article notes that agriculture is one of the key branches of the agro-industrial complex, which is exposed to crime in the conditions of computerization of society. This circumstance contributed to the change and emergence of new ways of committing embezzlement in agro-industrial complexes using high technologies, which determines the organizational and tactical basis for the identification, disclosure, and investigation of such crimes. The information contained in the computing environment may form the basis of the evidence base, thus, it is necessary to carefully consider and learn the ways of committing theft in agro-industrial complexes using high technologies; develop appropriate methodological recommendations.

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