OBKhSS

{{Short description|Soviet financial police}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand Russian|date=February 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2011}} }} {{Infobox government agency |agency_name = Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property |nativename = (OBKhSS) |nativename_a = Отдел по борьбе с хищениями социалистической собственности |nativename_r = (ОБХСС) |seal = |seal_width = |seal_caption = |flag = |formed = March 16, 1937 |dissolved = February, 1992 |superseding = {{ill|Main Directorate for Economic Security and Corruption Prevention|lt=Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes|ru|Главное управление экономической безопасности и противодействия коррупции}} |jurisdiction = The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR |headquarters = |country of origin = |minister1_name = |minister1_pfo = |minister2_name = |minister2_pfo = |chief1_name = |chief1_position = |chief2_name = |chief2_position = |parent_agency = |child1_agency = |child2_agency = |child3_agency = |child4_agency = |website = |footnotes = }}

The '''Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property''' (abbreviation: '''OBKhSS''', {{langx|ru|Отдел по борьбе с хищениями социалистической собственности, ОБХСС}}) functioned as the Soviet financial police. It administered economic laws combating theft of property in the organizations and institutions of state commerce, consumer, industrial and individual co-operatives, savings-banks and procurement agencies; it also acted against bribery and speculation. The People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, Nikolai Yezhov, established the OBKhSS as a department of the Main Police Department of the NKVD of the USSR on March 16, 1937 in Order of the People's Commissar No. 0018. From 1946 to 1991 the organisation operated under the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of the USSR.

{{As of | 2023}} successor-organisations of the OBKhSS - with similar functions in the Russian Federation - are:

* the {{ill|Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes|ru|Главное управление экономической безопасности и противодействия коррупции}} of the Ministry of Internal Affairs * OBEP - the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the MVD<ref> {{cite book |editor-last1 = Orttung |editor-first1 = Robert |editor-last2 = Latta |editor-first2 = Anthony |date = 11 January 2013 |orig-date = 2008 |title = Russia's Battle with Crime, Corruption and Terrorism |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bfjXUDJj4nMC |series = Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption |publication-place = Abingdon |publisher = Routledge |isbn = 9781134089000 |access-date = 20 July 2023 |quote = [...] corruption and illegitimate ties are widespread in such subdivisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as: the Department for Combating Economic Crimes (OBEP); [...]. }} </ref> * the DEB - the Department for Economic Security ({{langx |ru| Департамент экономической безопасности (ДЭБ)}}) of the MVD.

==Gallery== <gallery> File:ОБХСС.JPG|Medal marking 50 years of the OBKhSS of the MVD in the USSR - 1987 </gallery>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Economy of the Soviet Union Category:Law enforcement in the Soviet Union