FEATURES OF CONCEALING PERSONAL DATA OF CRIMINAL PROCESS PARTICIPATORS ON THE STAGE OF PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

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This article deals with the features of application of security measure (Part 9 Article 166 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation) to witnesses and victims on the stage of preliminary investigation. The author underlines the importance of depersonalization of texts with witnesses’ testimony in order to prevent the possibility of their identification. The author discusses the possibility of concealing of defence witness personal data and raises some legal and practical problems of victim’s data concealing. With regard to wide spread of misuses, the author suggests to get the court permission of concealing witnesses’ and victims’ personal data. The article contains the procedure of giving a pseudonym as well as recommendations of its constructing and foreign experience of its choosing. Moreover, the paper emphasizes the practical problems of creating and keeping of resolution about concealing of witnesses’ or victims’ data. The author gives a review of researchers’ suggestions about creating conditions to prevent opening of an envelope with the resolution by third parties and proposes the optimal order of its using, keeping and transmitting. The article is based on the material from theses, monographs and scientific papers as well as on investigators’ survey and judicial practice.

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E. I. Svechnikova

Depаrtment of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Samara National Research University

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