Impact of the indicator of corruption in state authorities for counterdrug activities on region's economic security

The article touches upon the growing threat of destructive influence on the level of economic security from its independent threat, expressed in the form of an increase in the share of the shadow sector of the economy due to its main criminal structural element - drug trafficking. Attention is drawn to the fact that under these circumstances, there has been an increase in corruption-related crimes in the field of drug trafficking, which causes discrediting of all activities of state bodies engaged in countering drug trafficking and drug use not for medical purposes, thereby encouraging the development of a negative factor of drug corruption. The author focuses on the need to determine the impact of the indicator of corruption in government agencies to combat drug trafficking on the level of economic security of the region.The paper notes that it makes sense to consider the nature of the destabilizing impact of corruption in the field of drug trafficking in combination with individual indicators of the country's economic development. At the same time, it assumed that the availability of generalized statistical data is not able to reflect an accurate description of dependencies, since the data are limited to several years and influenced by a large number of economic factors. The interrelation of calculated values of indicators influencing the spread of illicit drug trafficking and the indicator of corruption in the region shown using regression, variance and cluster analysis methods, an assessment of the impact on the level of economic security given, which emphasizes the relevance of the research for the purposes of developing and making decisions in the field of anti-drug and corruption security

economic security, drug business, regions' anti-drug ranking, regression analysis, cluster analysis