Abstract

This article analyses the criminal offences against economy in the Criminal Code of Kosovo, which are increasingly becoming an important object of study, both at national and international levels. The criminal offences against economy are in principle blanket nature offences, guiding nature, since the vast majority of such norms are further delineated in other bylaws, while the criminal code provisions provide on criminal offences, thereby guiding towards another legal or sub-legal provision. Economic and financial crimes in Kosovo are already making a remarkable increase, as proven by statistical records of state authorities. The increased rate of economic crimes is a result of many factors and circumstances present in Kosovo, which may be different from regional countries. The inefficient fight and prevention of organized crime and corruption in the period between 1999-2010 was stimulated and favoured by several specific factors that are elaborated in this article.

Highlights

  • This article analyses the criminal offences against economy in the Criminal Code of Kosovo, which are increasingly becoming an important object of study, both at national and international levels

  • It is so due to the fact that economic relations in the areas of manufacturing, exchange, transport, distribution and consumption, have always been, are and will be a foundation of society in national and international levels

  • Another specific feature of economic crimes is the fact that criminal offences against the economy are committed in a concealed manner, and that persons damaged by such criminal offences at a first glance seem unknown

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Summary

Introductory remarks

The Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo has ranked the criminal offences against the economy in its chapter XXII. It is so due to the fact that the constitutional and political order of any society (state) is very closely related to the economic order of such a country This link between the relations is increasingly linked with international levels, thereby affecting national and international security. In current criminal legislation of European and other countries, criminal offences against the economy are paid special treatment Such treatment is not random, due to the fact that criminal legislation are a strong vanguard of protecting human rights and freedoms, at the same extent as are the courts and prosecution offices, and a strong safeguard for economic relations in any society. In comparative criminal law there are strong differences in providing on criminal offences against the economy, there can still be an identification of common features of such criminal offences against the economy

Common features of criminal offences against the economy
Causes of commission of offences against the economy
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