СУЧАСНІ ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ ТРАНСНАЦІОНАЛЬНОГО НАРКОБІЗНЕСУ У ГЛОБАЛЬНІЙ ТІНЬОВІЙ ЕКОНОМІЦІ

Abstract

In the modern structure of the global shadow economy, a special place is occupied by the transnational drug business, which is undergoing deep transformational changes. They are primarily related to the steady expansion and diversification of the production and sales activities of drug cartels; a significant increase in the technological and innovative level of drug production; application in production processes of the most advanced scientific and technical achievements and developments in the field of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; the active use of digital technologies, the Internet, digital currencies, electronic and mobile payments by the transnational drug business in the operations of buying and selling drugs and servicing illegal financial flows; the significant diversification of the subject structure of the drug business, the complication of the organizational structures of active manufacturers of narcotics; large-scale offshoring of operations and active use of legal business structures and global infrastructure to cover up one's own illegal activities, etc. The global operating conditions of the transnational drug business and its large-scale activities in the form of an extremely profitable sphere of the global industry maximize the profits of drug cartels and stimulate the processes of laundering the money received in this industry through extensive systems of legalization of criminal income. At the same time, the parallel shadow financial system developed by the drug business is actively and with impunity used by it as an important institutional channel of penetration into the economy of any state or region of the world, as well as reinvestment of the income received from the sale of drugs in their expanded production. This creates threats to economic security and the system of order, and therefore requires the intensification of the efforts of the world community in the field of combating illegal drug trafficking, involved in the legalization of funds obtained from illegal drug trafficking; detection of financial flows related to the maintenance of shadow operations of the drug business, etc