Филиппов В.В.

This article presents a brief analysis of the Japanese legislative acts' provisions which aim at eliminating or minimizing conditions facilitating corrupt behavior of public servants including a review of basic legal acts regulating a state (civil) service, establishing prohibitions and restrictions in the service activity of officials, providing prevention of interests’ conflict and abuse or committing other illegal activities by officials of states structures. It was shown measures of criminal or disciplinary nature adopted national Law against offenders. It was also shown main directions of activity and functions of the specialized state bodies authorized for detection and suppression of corruption offenses. It was also told about an institute of whistleblowers having an important role for revealing offences and whose activities is provided by Law, and whistleblowers’ information about corruption facts is considered by law enforcement bodies as a reason to begin a formal investigations.

The article describes basic measures aimed at the prevention of corruption in the sphere of New York City’s public service including prevention of interests’ conflict, providing detection of corruption offences, and breaking state behavior’s standards by public officials. Also, it was shown activities’ examples of state bodies authorized to verify of officials and affects’ measures to them. It was, too, shown various disciplinary and criminal measures provided by Law used to offenders, and it is also shown a role of using information got from whistleblowers informing about some offences.

The article shows the legislative measures aimed at curbing nepotism as one of the conditions for the emergence and development of corruption in the public administration the United States. Provides links to federal and state legislation establishing a prohibition and punishment for civil servants who assist their relatives and friends at the entry level in the government and administration. There are examples of uncovered and investigated the facts related to nepotism. A significant role in combating the negative effects play data public entities, whose main functions are to select of candidates for the posts and positions in the state mechanism. The main role in the prevention of nepotism is given to the principles of assessment of civil servants according to official achievements and professionalism.

Present article is devoted to the analysis of the criminal - lawful standards, which relate to the establishment of responsibility for «laundering» of cash resources» obtained criminally legalized by transportation, sending or enumeration for the purpose of introduction into the activity of the officially existing institutes of the financial - credit system of the USA. It was shown the historical sources of the appearance of a concept itself «money laundering» in some American cities, which is connected with the activity of the well-known criminal clans of America. The article gives idea about the spectrum of the crimes provided by federal criminal legislation, are given some juridical concepts, connected with «laundering», are shown the compositions of the crimes which border and which facilitate to the data by the form of crimes. Account is illustrated by examples of the results of investigations, carried out by the law-enforcement services of the USA and also by sanctions, provided by federal legislation for commitment of similar acts.

The article describes the most significant features of Singapore's anti-corruption policy made for significant performance in combating corrupt behavior by government officials and private sector officials. At the heart of such a policy is developed legislation imposing a ban on the use of official position for personal gain and getting of illegal material and immaterial benefits including protectionism and patronage. Also important is the presence of a specialized state law enforcement agency having special duties to detect and investigate corruption offenses in all spheres and sectors of society Singapore. To influence the behavior of officials in the official structure of the Government of Singapore the Singapore Public Service Commission acts and it targets to control for Standards of Official Conduct by state officials of all branches of government and at all levels of government and administration.

This article describes the history of the promotion of voluntary associations, assisting law enforcement authorities in the detection and suppression of offences in the field of economics and public administration. It’s shown various forms of activity of the population, including workers and employees of various enterprises, establishments and activities of comrade courts operating in all areas of public life. The article is illustrated with a significant amount of statistical information and examples related to the activity of initiative groups of citizens, as well as examples of the impact of such activity, including, inter alia, persons who have committed offences in the area of public administration, economy and finance. It’s demonstrated the role of State and Party structures, organising and influencing similar activity.

The experience of the USA on using of polygraph in the organs of the state power for reveal of the abuses and others corruption crimes in the article is analyzed. It’s illustrated the lawmaking and enforcement efforts of Russian authorities for using of polygraph testing for the struggle with corruption in the state authority sphere.

The article describes the main directions of activity and functions of the state law enforcement and control bodies of the USA on counteraction and investigation of the corrupt crimes. The references and arguments of the Laws regulating the rights and charges of the governmental agencies are given.

The article describes bribery, abuse of power, embezzlement and misappropriation of state and public property by Soviet officials who held various posts in the government, commercial organizations, and law enforcement agencies in the 1950-1960s. The author examines the links between crime prevention and socio-economic processes . The article also focuses on the mutual influence and on the country as a whole in the Far East during these years

The article analyzes how crimes are perpetrated and describes their characteristics and methods of deception in the sphere of budgetary expenditures for state and municipal requirements. The profiles of offenders are also examined.