scholarly journals "Coronavirus" Economic Crime in Russia: Status, Tendency and Fighting Measures

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Alexander N. Sukharenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crime ◽  
Material Damage ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Medical Products ◽  
Economic Crimes

Despite the numerous restrictions caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and the crisis, the problem of economic crime has not lost its relevance. Two-thirds of the crimes committed are classified as serious, and the material damage caused by them amounts to hundreds of billions of rubles. Taking advantage of the increased demand for medical products and equipment, fraudsters have become noticeably more active, and hackers have moved a significant number of company employees to work remotely. Changes in procurement legislation have led to the emergence of new anticompetitive and corruption manifestations. The number of foreign economic crimes related to the smuggling of strategically important goods and resources remains stably high. To minimize criminal threats and mitigate their negative consequences, it is necessary to implement a whole range of organizational and legal measures, the list of which is formulated in this article.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AND LEGAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ECONOMIC CRIMES OF A TRANSNATIONAL NATURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-101
Author(s):  
Vadym Popko ◽  
Yevgen Popko
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
International Crime ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Category ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
Economic Crimes

The article examines the theoretical and legal foundations of economic crimes of a transnational nature formed under the influence of globalisation processes in the world, the growth of international crime and other factors. The author provides a conceptual description of transnational crime as the main category of transnational criminal law, including economic crimes. Scientific views of domestic and foreign scientists on the nature of crimes of an international nature, including criminal acts in the economic sphere are analysed; the most dangerous and widespread economic crimes are characterised. Attention is paid to the legal regulation of these relations, universal and regional conventions, other sources. The authors justify the need to criminalise transnational economic crimes in national law, regardless of whether a particular state is a party to international conventions adopted by international organisations. The authors pay special attention to the characteristics of the subjects of the crime and reveals the debatable nature of their definition, in particular, analyse the problematic nature of the recognition of a legal entity as a subject of crime. The authors use a conceptual approach to clarifying the subject of study, which determines the reasonability of theoretical research, and modern principles of scientific methodology: the principle of scientific pluralism, impartiality, comprehensiveness of research, historicism, complexity and others. A modern requirement in the methodology of science is the rejection of methodological monism, which has long been dominant in theoretical and historical studies of social (including legal) phenomena and the rejection of the ideology of scientific knowledge, which provides an objective, unbiased attitude to any legal phenomena, legal systems, etc. The purpose of the article is to provide theoretical and legal characteristics of international crime in the economic sphere, identify the transnational nature of these crimes, clarify the state of legal regulation of these relations at the international level, as well as international cooperation to combat these crimes. Based on the study and theoretical generalisation of the research topic, the authors emphasise the following conclusions: modern world problems are global in nature; economic crime transcends borders and becomes international; economic crimes of a transnational nature are recognised as socially dangerous acts that encroach on the system of social relations in the field of financial and credit, investment, information, trade, etc. activities, and have a transnational nature, i.e. go beyond one state; countering economic crimes of a transnational nature is within the internal competence of states, but international cooperation in this area also has an objective basis; the legal basis of international cooperation of states are international legal anti-criminal conventions, which define the criminal acts and obligations of states to criminalise economic crimes and provide legal assistance in criminal proceedings, in particular in extradition and transfer of accused and convicted persons, disposal of confiscated property, joint investigation and other issues.

scholarly journals Some legal issues of counteraction to the functioning of conversion centers

Legal Ukraine ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Alice Osadko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Financial Transactions ◽  
National Police ◽  
Economic Crimes ◽  
Cover Up

This article describes conversion centers, examines the specific issues of counteracting their operations as one of the most effective mechanisms for shading money out of the real economy, and identifies some of the weaknesses that exist in eliminating these centers, and suggests ways to address them. Due to the political and legislative changes that are taking place in our country, the authorities' desire to stabilize the country's anti-corruption economy, and unlawful mechanisms in this field are undergoing significant changes. Yes, criminal organizations have recently been set up in Ukraine, existing as large conversion centers designed to cover up economic crimes by illegally converting cash into cash or vice versa. The Conversion Center article is a carefully structured and well-structured stable crime group that exists with a commercial bank or in close collaboration. The purpose of the article is to investigate the activities of conversion centers and to counteract their functioning in the context of the fight against corruption and economic crime. An analysis of current law and practice shows that the functions of counteracting crime in the financial sector, namely the operation of conversion centers, are unjustifiably divided into departments and often duplicated. In particular, such powers are vested in the units of the National Police), the Security Service of Ukraine, the Tax Police (DFS). According to the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine, in Europe there are two options for the full integration of law enforcement in the fight against economic crime: within the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance. All this requires the formation of the concept of strategic construction and determining the location of the tax police or financial investigation service (DFS or FIU) in the fight against economic (tax) crime. This concept should define the basic directions and principles of improvement of managerial, organizational and personnel work, legal, personnel, resource and other law enforcement activity in the specified field on the basis of analysis and assessment of tax security of the person, society and the state. Key words: fictitious enterprise, conversion centers, financial transactions, legalization of income, liability, decriminalization, fraud.

scholarly journals Intelligent Application of Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things Technology in the Economic and Legal Fields

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Tingting Tan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Criminal History ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Sensor Technology ◽  
Crime Intelligence ◽  
Internet Of Things Technology ◽  
Economic Crimes

In today’s globalized situation, people on the one hand enjoy the great convenience brought by the Internet and artificial intelligence Internet of Things (IoT) technology, and, on the other hand, they are also inevitably subject to a series of harms brought by network technology. Internet economic crime is a new type of crime based on Internet technology. Criminals use Internet technology to conduct illegal visits and Trojan horse program attacks, steal user information, and defraud victims of money. This has resulted in the people’s personal and property safety and social harmony and stability. Strictly cracking down on cyber economic crimes in accordance with the law is of great significance to safeguarding the interests of the people and maintaining social stability. However, as the methods and forms of cyber economic crimes emerge endlessly, it is very important to collect intelligence information on such crimes. This paper proposes using the sensor technology, embedded system technology, radio frequency automatic identification technology, and cloud computing technology in artificial intelligence Internet of Things technology to design and build a data-mining-based network economic crime intelligent information aggregation collection system to realize network economic crime intelligence of aggregation and analyze and help combat cyber economic crimes. This article takes cyber economic crime cases in various cities in our province as an example, selects 9 cyber economic criminals’ intelligence information as sample data, and tests and applies the designed cyber economic crime intelligence information system. The final results show that the numbers of cyber economic crime cases in four cities A, B, C, and D in four provinces are roughly the same, but city A has the largest number; the minimum confidence of the 9 criminals is above 0.60, indicating that the economic crimes of cyber economic criminals are related to their academic background and family status and criminal history are related to a certain extent; illegal fund-raising fraud and online credit card fraud account for the largest proportion of the four cities and are currently the main forms of online economic crime.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC CRIME (ON THE EXAMPLE OF MOSCOW AND THE MOSCOW REGION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
Igor' Lopatin
Keyword(s):  
Regional Economy ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Material Damage ◽  
Regional Society ◽  
Regional Economic

Economic crime at the regional level is a versatile category that is dangerous for the population of the region and negative from the point of view of society, characterized by the existing regional social conditions. The danger of manifestations of economic crime consists both in the consequence in the form of significant material damage to the population of the region, and in the destabilization of the regional economy as a whole. Parallel shadow operations with an illegal orientation are emerging and progressing in the regional society, which, given the current trend, can direct all the resources available in the region to their development.

ECONOMIC CRIME IN RUSSIA: MAIN TRENDS AND FACTORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1726-1740
Author(s):  
E.G. Moskaleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Irreparable Harm ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Economic Crimes

The article presents the results of studying the level of crime in the economic sphere in the country on the basis of official statistical information from Rosstat and the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation. Economic crimes are difficult enough to detect, and the scale of latent economic crime is very large. In addition, the complexity of research in this area is due to the lack of precisely defined and unambiguously interpreted terms: “crimes in economic sphere”, “economic crimes”, “crime in economic field” or “crimes in the field of economic activity”. Summarizing the experience of theoretical and empirical research in this area, the author identifies three approaches to the interpretation of the concept of “economic crime”: legislative (based on the provisions of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), departmental and research. The consequences of economic crimes inflict irreparable harm on economic entities, society, the state as a whole, and undermine national security. The systematization of statistical data and the research carried out over a long period of time made it possible to identify the main trends in the situation from the standpoint of criminalization and decriminalization of the Russian economy, as well as to identify regions with an increased level of economic crime. The criminological analysis of crime in the sphere of economic activity has shown that there is an increase in negative trends, and with the development of the economy, it is necessary to strengthen activities to suppress economic crime. The statistical analysis of empirical data and monographic analysis made it possible to determine the most effective, in the author’s opinion, directions of combating economic crime in the modern world.

Are we any good at protecting our societies and economies from the threat of economic crime and misconduct?

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1006-1013
Author(s):  
Domitilla Vanni
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
International Harmonisation ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Economic Crimes ◽  
Italian Legislation

Purpose This paper aims to outline the Italian framework of rules against economic crime and to verify if Italian legislation provides for appropriate and effective measures according to own needs both at a national and European level. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a comparative approach by examining the European and Italian legal systems for finding analogies and differences between them. Findings The study has revealed the need of a greater international harmonisation of criminal laws and penalties as well as the transnationality of the economic crime cuts the chance of success of every national strategy, given that transnational criminals are encouraged by the awareness that their cross-border activities complicate law-enforcement efforts against them. Research limitations/implications To maintain a common international level in the protection of individuals from the risk of economic crimes and to enforce the effectiveness of European and national regulations. Practical implications The achievement of a high level of protection, for public security and social cohesion, to prevent and reduce economic crimes, in particular, cybercrimes. Social implications To ensure a high level of security for the general public by taking action against money laundering, cybercrimes and other sorts of misconducts. Originality/value Fighting economic crime requires the close cooperation of law enforcements from different countries, which the traditional law enforcement institutions are not designed to provide.

The Relationship between Allegations of Economic Crimes in Foreign Investments and the Adjudicative Power of Investor–State Tribunals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Despina Christofi
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
Investment Arbitration ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Economic Crimes ◽  
Power And Authority

Abstract The article falls within the broad areas of investment and financial law and, in particular, it focuses on various challenges that emerge from allegations of economic crime in investor–State arbitration. In particular, what is examined is how the adjudicative power and authority of investor–State tribunals is affected by alleged investors’ economic crimes. The two examples of economic crimes discussed are money laundering and corruption, due to their growing prominence in the field of investment arbitration. The existing legal framework regarding corruption and money laundering at international and multinational levels is analysed first, as arbitrators should base their decisions on it when they face an allegation of the two aforementioned economic crimes. Afterwards, the article identifies and evaluates three possible options for arbitrators: first, to deny jurisdiction over the particular dispute; second, to refer to relevant principles of international public policy; and, third, to apply the mandatory provisions of a law other than the one applicable in the particular dispute. After critically analysing each of the three options, the article concludes with some suggestions on how arbitrators should deal with alleged cases of economic crime, and, further, how bilateral and multilateral investment treaties could be adjusted so as to tackle this evolving problem.

Fighting Corruption and Embezzlement in Third World Countries

2004 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawit Kiros Fantaye
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Economic Crimes

Economic crime is one of the most serious crimes endangering the national security and public safety of any country. It is directly associated with legal, political, social, human rights and development issues. In particular, economic crime harms Third World countries such as Ethiopia where poverty is prevalent and the economy is poor and supported by foreign aid and loans. White-collar employees like higher government officials and businessmen play a key role in creating and increasing economic crimes, namely corruption, embezzlement and fraud, all over the world. It is therefore important that any form of economic crime is identified and punished severely, by appropriate prison terms according to the seriousness of the offence. By applying these kinds of penalties to economic criminals, the rate and frequency of economic crime can be minimised and, simultaneously, pave a way to the fundamental practices of democracy, government transparency and the dominance of the rule of law in the country. The main purpose of this article is to explain the effect of corruption in Third World countries and ways in which it can be combated, in particular by the imposition of heavy penalties on those who choose to commit economic crimes in Third World countries. It is argued that this must be done to protect human rights, to bring about political and social stabilisation, to ensure effective and even distribution of national wealth and, eventually, to secure democracy and sustainable development in the Third World countries.

scholarly journals Privatisierung der Strafverfolgung — Königsweg oder Irrweg?

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 483-507
Author(s):  
Rainer Sieg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crime ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Royal Road ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
Economic Crimes ◽  
Finding Method

Privatization of criminal prosecution — a royal road or a wrong track?The comprehensive use of private individuals by the company management for the systematic clearance of suspected economic crimes has been for decades a tried and tested fact-finding method in the US legal system. In Germany this form of corporate private investigations took not place or was unknown to the public prosecution. This changed dramatically with the discovery of spectacular corruption affairs with international relation in 2007. “Internal Investigations” have developed since then to a lucrative commercial model particularly for American solicitor’s offices, because only these are accepted by the American authorities America only.However, the adherence to examination standards of a state under the rule of law must be also protected in the job. The judiciary must win back the inquiry sovereignty in the fight against economic crime.The fight against international economic crime can no longer be left to a single country alone. The fight against anti-competitive corruption should be a priority for the entire community. As an adequate means supplements to the Convention on the Fight against Corruption of the Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD on the Laws of Transnational Criminal Prosecution of Economic Offenses come into consideration.

scholarly journals Problems of counteraction to economic crimes in modern conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
M . M. Begichev ◽  
A. V. Vlasov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
Economic Crimes

The Development of economic crime occurred in Russia in the «dashing 90s», at the same time the first economic crimes are known in the era of ancient Rome and Egypt, and each era is somehow connected with new economic crimes that have their own characteristics and specificity. The problem of preventing crimes in the economic sphere is complex, requiring all third-party study in a specific period of time and countering them depends directly on the mechanisms that are currently in the state and law enforcement agencies.The article analyzes the peculiarity of the use of digital technologies aimed at combating economic crime.

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