Issues of improving the criminal justice system responsibility for crimes in the sphere of illicit trafficking in medicines and medical devices

The article presents the results of the analysis of proposals developed in criminal law science to optimize the Russian criminal legislation in the sphere of turnover of medicines and medical devices. A number of author's proposals for improving this regulatory framework are formulated. The purpose of this article is to substantiate the issues of criminal legislation in the field of illegal trafficking of medicines and medical devices, to specify the problems of qualification of these crimes, and to develop recommendations on amendments to the criminal code of the Russian Federation in this area. Conclusions obtained in the course of the study. Acts committed in the sphere of illicit trafficking in medicines and products have a high degree of public danger. The current state of these crimes indicates the problems that arise in the qualification of these crimes and the high level of their latency, especially in the part where these crimes are committed using information and telecommunications technologies. At the same time, at the doctrinal level, the directions for optimizing the analyzed provisions of the criminal law were developed, and the analysis of criminal cases was carried out, which allowed the author to make a number of proposals for making changes to the criminal law.

crime, medical devices, criminal liability, pharmaceutical market, medicines, counterfeit drugs