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CNAA / Theses / 2007 / May /

Shadow economy and money laundering – criminological research


Author: Mihail David
Degree:doctor of law
Speciality: 12.00.08 - Criminal Law (with specification: Criminal Law, Criminology, Criminal Procedure Law, Criminalistics, Judicial Expertise, Executional Law; Theory of The Operative - Investigation Activity)
Year:2007
Scientific adviser: Ştefan Stamatin
doctor, associate professor (docent), Academy "Stefan cel Mare" of Ministry of Internal Affaires
Institution:
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Status

The thesis was presented on the 23 May, 2007
Approved by NCAA on the 14 June, 2007

Abstract

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Thesis

CZU 343.37(043.3)

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182 pages


Keywords

Shadow economy, illegal economy, the legal economy, the latent economy, evasion from payment of taxes, manual labor, definition of shadow economy, a fiscal method, criminal business, money-laundering, legalization of the means acquired in the illegal way, investment of money resources, stratification of money resources, integration of money resources, methods of money-laundering, the circuit of money-laundering, criminological factors, the prevention of shadow economy and money-laundering, struggle against money-laundering.

Summary

The Present work is the first complex criminological research of theoretical and applied problems of a phenomenon of shadow economy and money-laundering on the basis of which new possibilities for application and real use of the statistical data with a view of development and modernization of the aspects connected to prevention and successful struggle against the researched phenomena are created. In this context, the system of scientific views on the concept of shadow economy in economic and criminological aspect is developed and concretized; the fundamental theoretical problems concerning a structural matrix of shadow economy, participants of activity who forms this phenomenon, an estimation of a shadow phenomenon and the basic methods of its display are explained; the criminal sector of shadow economy is defined and characterized, concrete categories of offences which form this sector are defined.

For the first time at a national level were investigated the concept, characteristics, ways and technologies of money-laundering, including an explanation and the characteristic of off-shore zones through which there is a money-laundering more often; were revealed and deeply analyzed the factors inducing rise, existence and evolution of a phenomenon of shadow economy and money-laundering, since a transition period of Republic of Moldova and Romania and up to a present stage of development of these two countries.

Further complex comparative studying theoretical, legal and applied bases of area of prevention and struggle against shadow economy was carried out, is especial money-laundering, priority strategy of development of the given area in our country were established and concretized. During the solution of scientific-practical problems were widely used the economic and the criminal statistics, and also the materials of the criminal verdicts endured by degrees of jurisdiction on various criminal cases.

Scientific engineering work may be applied in legislative process and in practice of prevention and struggle against a phenomenon of shadow economy and money laundering, and also as a didactic material at teaching a rate of criminal law, criminology, economy etc.