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Contemporary Issues of Revealing Crimes of Legalisation of Funds Acquired as a Result of Commiting Corruption Related Offences



M.L. Rodichev
petrogradets@bk.ru
Senior Lecturer, the Department of Internal Affairs Bodies Operational Investigative Activity, Saint-Petersburg State University of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, PhD in Law
St. Petersburg

Keywords:

  • legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime
  • corruption
  • countering corruption
  • operational search activities
  • compensation for material harm
  • conducting operational search activities
  • Corruption is recognized as one of the threats to national security of the Russian Federation thereby countering this type of offenses is claimed to be one of priority activities of the law enforcement bodies. The article focuses on the relevant matters related to revealing one of the most latent offenses, to wit, legalization of proceeds acquired as a result of corruption. The first part of the article contains description of the current tendency of legalization (laundering) of incomes, acquired as result of committing corruption related offenses and identifies causes of these processes. The second part of the paper provides analysis of the challenges related to revealing the said offenses in the course of operational search activities. As a result of the research conducted by the author major increasing tendencies have been revealed with regard to legalization of incomes acquired by committing corruption offenses with shortcomings in the realm operational search activities being defined.
    The article contributes significantly to the system of scientific knowledge about countering legalization of proceeds from crime.

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