Business Ombudsman Boris Titov approached Anton Vaino, who leads the working group focused on monitoring and analyzing law enforcement in the entrepreneurship sphere, with a proposal to ban workplace inspections without the mandatory involvement of the prosecutor’s office. This report comes from TASS, citing Titov’s press service.
The proposal aims to amend the law governing operational-investigative activities. According to the press service, the changes would require the prosecution to coordinate all such investigations.
Additionally, in cases where there are threats to Russia’s state, economic, information, military, or environmental security, the prosecutor’s office could be notified, from the initial stage of a business examination, within 48 hours after the investigation begins.
Titov argues that this innovation would reduce the number of inspections carried out without sufficient justification.
He also suggested a rule whereby the seizure of original documents would occur only if certified copies do not enable the task of operational search activities to be accomplished.