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Sadig TAGIEV,

Chairman of the Court of Appeal of Chernihiv region, Candidate of Law

FEATURES OF MONITORING BANK ACCOUNTS AS A SILENT INVESTIGATIVE (SEARCH) ACTION 

The article examines the new type of covert (investigative) surveillance –banking account monitoring, its facilities in disclosing and investigation of corruption criminal violations. It is viewed that the features of its applying unlike other covert investigative actions. It was noted, that the following covert investigative action by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, make it impossible for other law enforcement structures to investigate criminal offenses, where criminals use banks account (trade in arms, drugs, terrorism financing, etc.) Emphasized, the basis of conduction of banks account verification unlike the other covert – (investigative) surveillance, according to the legislator, it’s the availability of «reasonable suspicion» person, who commits crime action with usage of bank accounts (Art. 1, Art. 269-1 of the Criminal Procedure Code). But the conduction intrusive events, where the constitutional rights of person, legislator allows only to suspect a person of committing the grave or exceptionally grave crime (Claim 5 Part 2 of Art. 248 CPC). Prosecutor or detective conducting this covert investigative action is proposed to preside in real time (online) thought the system of protected information bank networks, which will improve the efficiency of the investigative action.

Key words: covert (investigative) surveillance, banking account monitoring, corruption offence.

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