Causing Property Damage by Deception or Abuse of Trust by Omission

Abstract

The infliction of property damage by deception or abuse of trust, despite its low prevalence among other crimes against property, has a number of topical issues related to the mechanism of committing this crime, in particular issues of passive fulfillment of the objective side. The article sets out the criteria for the qualification of an act provided for in Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation committed by inaction. Special attention is paid to the conditions under which inaction will be criminal in nature.