Actual problems of remote production of investigative actions

Abstract

The article deals with the novel of the domestic criminal procedure law - Article 189.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, which defines the features of conducting investigative actions such as interrogation, confrontation and identification using videoconferencing systems. This innovation is designed to ensure compliance with reasonable deadlines during the preliminary investigation and a full and comprehensive investigation of all the circumstances of the criminal case. It is proposed to assess the optimality of the legislative regulation of this procedure in the Russian criminal process, to compare the norms on the use of videoconferencing in obtaining evidence, in force in a number of foreign countries. The revealed shortcomings of regulatory regulation allow us to conclude that there is a very likely problem of the reliability of the results of these investigative actions. In this connection, options are proposed for making changes to a number of provisions of Article 189.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, as well as to other articles of this Code.