An offence is consummated when the committed act falls within a criminal rule. Fixing the starting point of the offence consummation has legal relevance for, a number of reasons: on the one hand, it marks the time when there is corpus delicti of crime in place; on the other hand, it defines the date of the offence, which has practical interest for addressing some issues, e.g., determining the applicable criminal law, calculating the limitation period for criminal liability, the incidence of an amnesty law, etc. Hence, this article identifies the peculiarities of the moment of consummation of an offence relating to the manipulation of an event. For this purpose, account was taken of legal provisions, judicial practice, and doctrinal approaches.