THE POWERS OF THE PROSECUTOR IN THE SUPERVISION OF THE BODIES CONDUCTING THE INQUIRY AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION AT THE STAGE OF PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

The article discusses the issues of the prosecutor’s implementation of supervisory functions for thebodies of inquiry at the stage of preliminary investigation. The authors conclude that at the stage of thepreliminary investigation the legislator gave the prosecutor a wide range of supervisory powers over theactivities of the bodies of inquiry. However, some of them require adjustments. For example the power of theprosecutor to give consent to the inquirer to initiate a petition before the court for the election cancellation ormodification of a preventive measure or for the production of another procedural action which is allowed onthe basis of a court decision it is advisable to implement not in relation to the inquirer but in relation to thebodies of inquiry. The availability of the prosecutor’s ability to resolve the recusals declared to the inquirerhis recusals as well as to remove the inquirer from further investigation if he violated the requirements ofthe law is superfluous and subject to transfer to the head of the inquiry unit and the head of the inquirybody. The article also concludes that it is necessary to fix a provision in the Criminal Procedure Code of theRussian Federation according to which written instructions of the prosecutor if they had taken place wouldhave been subject to mandatory inclusion in the materials of the criminal case.