CRIMINALIZATION OF CADASTRAL FORGERY: SOCIAL AND CRIMINOLOGICAL-LEGAL PREREQUISITES

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that at all times an integral part of the social structure is real estate. It is the cornerstone element of any economy. The development of relations related to the turnover of real estate has led to the formation of independent state accounting and registration and measurement activities of the state cadastral registration and cadastral activities of specific subjects - cadastral engineers. In 2015. Federal Law No. 228-FZ of 13.07.2015 «On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation» amended the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Article 1702 of the Criminal Code defined liability for knowingly false information entered by cadastral engineers into the technical plan, land survey plan or survey act (Article 1702 of the Criminal Code). To date, the question of the need to criminalize the deed of cadastral forgery remains controversial. The main purpose of the study is a comprehensive analysis of the social prerequisites of criminalization of illegal actions of cadastral engineers, expressed in the introduction of knowingly false information in the technical plan, land survey plan or in the act of survey and consideration of controversial points of view among both theorists and practitioners. The main problem is the determination of necessity of introduction of such subject as cadastral engineer and justification of criminalization of cadastral forgery. As a result of the research conclusions are made that the measures taken by the legislator to amend the legislation and the establishment of criminal liability of cadastral engineer were logically justified and will bring positive changes in the field of immovable property.