Unconstitutionality of criminal liability for filing inaccurate information in Ukraine: сritical legal analyses

• Andrii Vozniuk Head of Research Laboratory at the National Academy of Internal Affair http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3352-5626
• Dmitriy Kamensky Berdyansk State Pedagogical University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3610-2514
• Olexandr Dudorov Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4860-0681
• Roman Movchan Donetsk National University named after Vasyl Stus https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2074-8895
• Andriy Andrushko Uzhhorod National University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7735-7898

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3969.07

Keywords: declaration of unreliable information, public corruption, corruption-related criminal offense, unconstitutionality of the law, rule of law

Abstract

La investigación revela deficiencias de los argumentos del Tribunal Constitucional de Ucrania sobre el reconocimiento del art. 366-1 del Código Penal como el hecho que no se ajusta a la Constitución, en términos de: a) falta de autoridad de este Tribunal para tipificar como delito actos socialmente peligrosos; b) falta de argumentación sobre la ausencia de perjuicio social en la no presentación de declaración y en la presentación de información inexacta; c) experiencia extranjera positiva; d) conformidad del art. 366-1 del Código Penal de Ucrania con el principio del estado de derecho. El artículo emplea un conjunto de métodos de investigación jurídica, entre los que se encuentran terminológicos, sistémicos-estructurales, formales-lógicos y comparativos-legales. Se destaca que: a) la criminalización de un acto socialmente dañino es un asunto que debe decidir el legislador, no el Tribunal Constitucional de Ucrania; b) la decisión no presenta ni refuta ningún argumento sobre el elemento de lesividad social relacionado con la no presentación de declaración y la declaración de información inexacta. Sobre la base de la investigación, se ha concluido que la decisión del Tribunal Constitucional sobre el reconocimiento del art. 366-1 del Código Penal no cumple con la Constitución y no se ha fundamentado suficientemente.

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