The issues of storage of physical evidence in the context of the fundamentals of the evidentiary process in pre-trial criminal proceedings are investigated. It is established that with regard to the subject of this study, it should be noted that the storage of physical evidence is an independent mechanism that, covering pre-trial proceedings, includes various types of activities established by regulatory legal acts in criminal proceedings aimed at ensuring the safety of physical evidence and (or) evidentiary properties and attributes in order to establish circumstances to be proved, protection of the rights and legitimate interests of participants in criminal proceedings. In conclusion, it is concluded that the issues of accounting, transfer, storage, sale, disposal and destruction of seized property are currently regulated by a significant array of regulatory legal acts, due to the specifics of the conditions of its circulation and storage.
pre-trial proceedings, head of the investigative body, investigator, physical evidence, inventory, audit, proof, storage of physical evidence
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