Signs of continuing crime and issues of determination of time of its commitment

Continuing crimes (delictum continuatum), like continuous crimes, are considered as the single complex crimes. Continuing crimes are characterized by a number of specific objective and subjective signs.Most of authors believe that the time of the commission of a continuing crime should be recognized as the time when the last of similar offenses was committed. There are moments of legal (de jure) and factual (de facto) completion in continuing crimes, as well as in continuous crimes, that the crime continues to actually take place even after legal completion, and, of course, these completion times do not possibly coincide. The time of commission of a continuing crime is the time of the commission of the last (factual completion) of several acts constituting it.