On Remote Kidnapping of People

Modern crime is undergoing a digital transformation, as evidenced by the nature of the crimes committed. Currently, criminals are actively using new technologies to minimize the volume of offline actions when committing a crime as to its objective part. The development of online services allows criminals to commit criminal acts through third parties acting for selfish reasons or as a result of deception, often without realizing their complicity in the crime. Modern technologies make it possible to commit non-virtual crimes completely remotely, thanks to online services. The list of such crimes is constantly expanding. Remote kidnappings of people have become a new trend, the problems of classification of which will be discussed in this paper. Ideas de lege ferenda are being formed, expressed in the change of the current structure of the offence of kidnapping and the updating of the explanations of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

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