Criminalistics characteristics of official forgery

In the article, based on the analysis of scientific literature on criminalistics and criminal process, the analysis of criminalistics characteristics features of official forgery. It is justified that official forgery is a crime that is used to commit the majority of corruption crimes. In most cases, the causes and conditions of its commission are related to the factors that contribute to the commission of corruption and official misconduct, as in most cases, official forgery accompanies them. The purpose of this article is to study the criminalistics characteristics of office counterfeiting. The criminalistics characteristic of the crime is considered by the authors as a system containing a set of forensic significance features inherent in a certain type of crime. Like any system education, criminalistics characterization of crimes consists of interconnected components – elements. The indicated elements are not isolated, but connected with certain correlation links, determined by the sequential placement of elements in accordance with the sequence of deployment of criminal activity, starting from the position: 1) personality of the offender acting in the direction 2) the choice of the object of the criminal offense, 3) in a certain environment, 4) by applying certain methods, 5) causing the corresponding effects in the form of a set of tracks and damage. The following elements of f criminalistics characteristics of official forgery are analyzed in the article: the identity of the offender, the subject of direct criminal assault, the method of committing the crime, the following picture. The criminalistics characteristics of official forgery allows to distinguish it from other crimes, in particular from forgery of documents, as well as crimes committed through forgery. The criminalistics characteristics of official forgery facilitates the identification of the circumstances to be proven in criminal proceedings for crimes of this kind and the planning of their investigation. At the same time, during the investigation of crimes of this kind, there are a number of problems that need further resolution, and therefore the issue requires separate scientific research, which will be the subject of further scientific research.