Open AccessINTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON COMBATING MONEY LAUNDERING AND CORRUPTION CRIMES: SOME ASPECTS OF INVESTIGATIONS
Author(s) -
Ganna Gorbenko
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
public administration and law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2733-211X
pISSN - 2674-5216
DOI - 10.36690/2674-5216-2020-3-74
Subject(s) - money laundering , language change , scope (computer science) , business , international law , compliance (psychology) , terrorism , political science , law and economics , law , accounting , economics , art , social psychology , psychology , literature , computer science , programming language
The article analyzes international standards on combating money laundering and corruption crimes. The evolution of The FATF Standards, which have been revised to strengthen global safeguards and further protect the integrity of the financial system by providing governments with stronger tools to take action against financial crime, has been investigated. At the same time, these new standards address new priority areas such as corruption and tax crimes. The aim of the article is to compare international legal acts that regulate the field of anti-money laundering and anti-corruption. The research methodology: the functional and analytical methods of comparative legal research were used as the most appropriate. In comparison with AML/CFT law, the international legal requirements regarding anti-corruption compliance are very general. Many countries do not have laws and regulations on anti-corruption compliance. Companies develop their compliance programmes based on international law, foreign law that has transnational application. Certain provisions of the above-mentioned international legal acts, in addition to their scope, regulate the investigation of crimes related to money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption crimes. The main results: the implementation of international standards in national law in some way unifies the approaches to the investigation of complex crimes, which are often combined in a scheme, and allows the introduction of effective methods of investigating such crimes.