The use of special knowledge during the investigation of forgery of documents that are submitted for state registration of a legal entity and individual entrepreneurs

In the scientific article, scientific publications on the specified issues were analyzed and it was established that special knowledge in the investigation of criminal proceedings under Art. 205-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, are used for the purpose of: 1) identifying traces of this type of crime: (for example, identifying signs of making changes to documents that are the subject of a crime; identifying the person who entered false information into the document; the original content of the document, etc.); 2) application of methods of studying documents within the scope of their review (non-destructive methods and technical means); 3) fixation of S(R) D using technical means; 4) seizure of material evidence (computer equipment, documents and other traces, things or other objects); 5) obtaining advice on the preparation of materials for expert research (for example, determining the types of forensic examinations that should be assigned for the study of seized documents and other objects, formulating expert tasks, selecting samples for comparative research, etc.); 6) modeling the mechanism of the crime in order to propose versions and plan the next stage of the investigation; 7) conducting expert research; 8) obtaining data during the interrogation of an expert as a witness regarding the research he conducted, etc. It was established that the use of special knowledge during a pre-trial investigation into the forgery of documents that are submitted for state registration of a legal entity and individual entrepreneurs takes place in two forms: 1) procedural: involving a specialist to participate in the pre-trial investigation, appointing forensic experts, obtaining a written explanation of a specialist, questioning as witnesses of specialists or forensic experts who participated in conducting forensic examinations; 2) non-procedural: advisory assistance of specialists on matters requiring special knowledge, departmental documentary audits and checks.