Review

The Department of Justice of the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv received a request from attorney Natalia Drygval for a scientific opinion on the interpretation of certain provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and the Criminal Code of Ukraine, namely, answers to the following questions:

1. Is the report of an operational officer (employee), which contains factual data on the signs of a crime, the basis for conducting covert investigative (detective) actions?

2. Are there any grounds to bring an operative to criminal liability if the information contained in his/her report was not confirmed; or the criminal proceedings were closed; or the person who participated in the commission of a criminal offense and in respect of whom covert investigative (detective) actions were conducted was identified incorrectly by the operative?

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