The surrender of illegally stored objects of crime (firearms, narcotic drugs, etc.) entails exemption from criminal liability provided that such actions are voluntary. Meanwhile, there is no uniform understanding neither in investigative nor in judicial practice regarding what kind of surrender of criminal objects should be considered voluntary and, accordingly, how to document this voluntary nature of surrender. There is also insufficient clarity in the interpretation of voluntariness in the scholarly literature. To solve this problem, we have studied materials of investigative and judicial practice, we have also analyzed the legislation, explanations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, scholarly and special literature, and interviewed employees and other persons. The results of our research show that the characterization of the «voluntary nature» of actions to hand over objects of crime is not uniform and cannot be reduced to any one feature; a system of such features is substantiated. In order to fully reflect the circumstances of the surrender of crime objects, it is proposed to record information on each of these features of voluntary nature of surrender and to identify the main types and specific forms of their documentation.
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