The article analyzes the risk of criminal manifestations of the shadow economy, and shown their devastating effects not only on the legal economy, and through it - on politics, social sphere, culture and law. The conclusion is, that due to the significant weakening of this reason, economic, political, social, cultural and legal institutions, the focus in overcoming the criminal manifestations of the shadow economy must be made solely on the still healthy segments of the economy, politics, social, cultural rights.