MAPPING OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL AREA

Abstract

The existing knowledge has been systematised in the Paper in theory and practice, appropriate research was conducted in terms of collecting and processing statistical data, as well as analysis of police practice related to the suppression of organized crime in the economic and financial area. On the basis of these facts, arguments were drawn concerning the merits and demerits of positive legal solutions in relation to the problem concerned, as well as the possible direction of further legal modifications with appropriate proposals in de lege ferenda sense.

This Paper establishes a legal consideration framework, organized crime in the economic and financial area where the provisions of criminal codes and criminal procedure codes were analysed, which are applied in the territory of BiH.

A number of conventions have been processed, and a special emphasis is given to the activities of the United Nations, under whose auspices the Convention on Money Laundering, Search, Temporary Seizure and Confiscation of Proceeds from the 1999 Criminal Acts was adopted. The Paper also analyses the situation of organized crime in the economical and financial area in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the period from 2015 to 2016.