The article deals with the applied aspects of operational and investigative characteristics of crimes under articles 2851 and 2852 of the Criminal code of Russian Federation, which, due to the specifics of the subject of the wrong­ful act, pose a threat to the economic security of the state. Given the current theoretical approaches to the definition and content of the term and the cur­rent judicial and investigative practices the author provides the vision, the concept and structure of this characteristics as well as its content with the prevailing patterns of law enforcement practice activities units of economic security and anti-corruption of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation to ensure the economic security of the state.