PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERSONS WHO CREATED THE PYRAMID SCHEME

This article reveals the criminological characteristics of the personality of the criminal who created the financial pyramid and led it.

According to the authors, the study of the criminal's personality is necessary to study all crime, its individual types, to clarify the causal complex, without which it is impossible to develop a system of effective counteraction measures.

The article is devoted to the establishment of socio-psychological data of the person who committed the crime, in addition, the work presents data on the generalization of internal, socially determined causes of crimes in the field of economic activity, established and identified patterns that can characterize the personality of a criminal in this category of acts.

The authors, based on the analysis of statistical data on economic crime, attempt to present a portrait of a modern Kazakhstani criminal.

For researchers, it seems appropriate to determine the citizenship, gender characteristics, age category, and level of education of offenders.

According to the authors, the resulting «portrait» of the criminal who committed the act provided for in Article 217 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan «Creation and management of a financial (investment) pyramid» correlates with previously conducted criminological studies, which indicates the presence of certain universal signs of these persons.

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