Interaction of business with the divisions of the Agency for economic safety and corruption counteraction of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (opinion of the small businesses of Nizhniy Novgorod region).

Objective: based on a sociological research, to analyze, study and disclose the types, forms and quality of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses of the Nizhny Novgorod region with the economic security and anti- corruption units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Methods: general scientific (analysis, systemic-structural approach to the analysis of the research object, comparative legal method), as well as logical and specific scientific methods (survey – questioning of the business community of the Nizhny Novgorod region).

Results: the methods and features of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses and departments of economic security and anti-corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the course of entrepreneurial activity are identified and classified; the problems in the interaction of representatives of small and medium-sized businesses and departments of economic security and anti-corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Nizhny Novgorod region are analyzed.

Scientific novelty: based on the opinions of representatives of small and medium-sized businesses of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the article identifies and systematizes the main characteristics, including problematic ones, of the level and quality of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses with economic security and anti-corruption units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Based on the empirical research data obtained, the types and forms of interaction, ways of their implementation, and a mechanism for assessing the quality of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses of the Nizhny Novgorod region with economic security and anti-corruption units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the future are proposed. Among them, the obligation to voluntarily report cases of corruption and economic offenses; to support their employees who informed about the preparation or commission of an economic or corruption offense; to provide legal information to employees on the prevention of corruption and economic offenses; to assist authorized representatives of the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in conducting inspections of the organization’s activities; to support the identification and investigation of corruption, economic crimes and by the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and to involve specialists in the relevant field of law when preparing responses to requests from law enforcement agencies.

Practical significance: the study results can be used to improve the quality of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses with the divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in particular, by entrepreneurs assuming public obligations to report cases of corruption and economic offenses to law enforcement agencies, which the organization (employees of the organization) became aware of, as well as the implementation of measures to support the employees who reported to law enforcement agencies about information that became known to them during the performance of their work duties about the preparation or commission of an economic or corruption offense.

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