Current Tasks and Issues of Judicial Financial and Economic Examination in Bankruptcy Cases in Criminal and Arbitration Proceedings

The author examines current issues of the appointment and production of judicial financial and economic examinations in bankruptcy cases. The article provides statistics on the consideration of bankruptcy cases in the Russian Federation, considers data on the initiation of criminal cases, appeals to the court to declare the debtor bankrupt, as well as other cases (challenging transactions in bankruptcy, bringing persons controlling the debtor to subsidiary liability). The conceptual apparatus of the judicial financial and economic examination in bankruptcy cases is considered, the goals are defined, the concepts of the task of the judicial financial and economic examination in bankruptcy cases are revealed, a list of questions is developed and justified for each specific task. The general tasks of forensic economic examinations are defined, as well as typical tasks related to financial and economic examination in bankruptcy cases. A list of questions for the following expert tasks has been developed and justified: study of the financial condition of the organization, study of the solvency and financial stability of the organization and the impact of individual operations on it, study of the organization and the impact of individual operations on it, identifying the presence (absence) of signs of deliberate and fictitious bankruptcy, identifying the presence (absence of) signs of deliberate and fictitious bankruptcy of the organization. The article discusses issues of competence of an expert in bankruptcy cases, distinguishes between issues of forensic accounting and financial and economic examination in bankruptcy cases. Recommendations for formulating questions before an expert economist in bankruptcy cases have been systematized. Typical errors in formulating questions to an expert are considered, and the inadmissibility of raising legal questions to an expert, as well as questions related to the assessment of the actions of officials, is noted.