Introduction The Constitutions of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Nicaragua demonstrate the identity of the understanding of citizens' rights and the possibility of their restriction for socially significant purposes. The Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Nicaragua does not regulate a significant number of relationships that arise in the process of searching for fugitives. The Law of the Republic of Nicaragua "On the Prevention, Investigation and Prosecution of Organized Crime and the Management of Seized, Confiscated and Abandoned Assets" only partially fills in the gaps. The objective need to use a number of effective investigative measures, in the absence of proper legal regulation, creates prerequisites for the violation of the rights of citizens in the Republic of Nicaragua. In Russia, the Federal Law "On Operational Investigative Activities" sufficiently regulates the use of effective methods of locating fugitives while ensuring guarantees of the protection of citizens' rights. Research methods. The work used a general scientific dialectical method of cognition of the surrounding reality, which involves a complete and comprehensive study of phenomena, consideration of connections and contradictions between them. In addition, the method of description was used; the method of logical comprehension; abstraction and generalization. Results. The article argues the expediency of adopting in the Republic of Nicaragua an analogue of the Russian law "On operational investigative activities", or the implementation of its norms in a separate chapter of the criminal procedure codec. At the same time, there are norms in Nicaraguan legislation, the implementation of which would make it possible to increase the effectiveness of the activities of law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation.
search for fugitives, penetration into premises, control of correspondence, investigative actions, operational search measures