Topical issues of the formation of the legal status of independent experts accredited to conduct anti-corruption examinations

The article examines the patterns of formation and implementation of the legal status of independent experts, accredited to conduct anti-corruption expert examinations. Scientific research is based on many years of experience in conducting independent anti-corruption expert examinations of normative legal acts and their drafts as an independent expert accredited by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. The author came to the conclusion about the lack of clear legal regulation of the status of independent experts, which prevents its formation as an effective preventive mechanism against corruption. In order to improve the effectiveness of independent experts and to avoid problems arising in practice, it is necessary to specify at the legislative level all elements of the legal status of independent experts (rights, duties, responsibilities, guarantees), as well as the procedure of relations with public authorities in case of disagreement on the results of an independent anticorruption expertise.