Matskevich I.M., Antonyan E.A. The transcript of the “roundtable” on the issue of illegal transplantology

Abstract: On September 12, 2014, a roundtable devoted to the problem of illegal transplantology was organized on the base of the All-Russian Advanced Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation with the support of the regional social organization the “Union of Criminalists and Criminologists”. The event was organized and held within the planned events of the “Union of Criminalists and Criminologists”. The event was held on the base of the educational institution playing an important role in police officers training. Illegal transplantology is a very important problem within the study of transnational organized crime. The roundtable was attended by well-known scholars in the spheres of criminology, criminal law, criminalistics, criminal procedure, psychology and practice. All reports of the scholars and the practitioners were of a large interest and provoked an active discussion. Everyone agreed that it is necessary to struggle against this evil, since it’s one of the reasons of enforced disappearance of people in Russia. In the result of the roundtable, the resolution had been adopted which included the practical positions for the enhancement of work of law-enforcement bodies struggling against illegal transplantation. 

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