Fraud: Correspondence of a Large and Grand Size to the Degree of Public Danger Originally Laid Down by the Legislator

Introduction: the article analyzes significance of the degree of public danger in the context of economic corpus delicti and studies compliance of public danger to thresholds of large and grandscale fraud provided for by Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation originally laid down by the legislator. Purpose: to study the size of large and grand damage for corpus delicti most often incriminated to entrepreneurs and analyze legislation in other post-Soviet countries to determine a large and grand size, as well as its use in conditional values. Methods: general scientific methods of cognition (analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction), special methods of legal science (comparative legal and normative-logical), individual private methods of social sciences. Results: domestic criminal legislation needs to be reconsidered and thresholds of large and grandscale fraud as aggravating circumstances of many economic crimes should be brought into line with economic changes, including in Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. This is confirmed by economic changes, as well as experience of other countries. Conclusion: the analysis shows the necessity of introducing conditional values that will allow us to respond in a timely manner to changes in the economy without a point-by-point revision of criminal legislation, which will more fully meet the criterion of fairness.