Abstract: The article points out topicality of the problems regarding fighting corruption offences. The author especially points out the public danger of corruption offences in the customs bodies of the Russian Federation, providing delictological, social and legal characteristics of corruption, providing a legal definition. The author discusses topical issues and modern administrative legal mechanisms for fighting corruption within the system of state service of the Russian Federation. The author analyzes the administrative legal norms of anti-corruption legislation, which are formed in accordance with the modern legislative tendencies. The author then makes a conclusion that criminal law methods alone are not sufficient for the efficient fight against the corruption offences. The author evaluates the perspectives of implementation of administrative law norms in the sphere of fighting corruption in the customs bodies of the Russian Federation. In the course of the research the author makes a conclusion on the formation of the system of administrative legal norms in the sphere of fighting corruption. The article contains analysis of some federal laws and decrees of the President of the Russian Federation containing anti-corruption norms. The author proposes to develop the provisions of federal anti-corruption legislation in the departmental legal acts.