Drug trafficking and legalization of income from criminal activity: traits, manifestation tendencies, prevention and combat Cover Image

Traficul de droguri şi legalizarea veniturilor provenite din activitatea criminală: trăsături, tendinţe de manifestare, prevenire şi combatere
Drug trafficking and legalization of income from criminal activity: traits, manifestation tendencies, prevention and combat

Author(s): Vitalie Jitariuc, Olesea Blaşcu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law
Published by: Academia “Stefan cel Mare” a MAI al Republicii Moldova
Keywords: drugs; illicit trafficking; transnational criminal organizations; criminal groups; virtual currency; illegal activity; income; money laundering; shadow economy; electronic payment systems;

Summary/Abstract: The problem of drug-related crime, especially its highly organized forms, is characterized by the highest degree of relevance. The Republic of Moldova, due to its geopolitical position and the parameters of the internal drug market, is in the sphere of criminal interests of transnational criminal organizations involved in drug trafficking. The phenomenon of transnational organized crime related to drugs was formed in the context of the globalization of the dark economy and the dominance of organized forms of criminal activity in the drug business. This type of crime is the result of a specific fusion of general criminal and economic components within a multidisciplinary drug-related criminal enterprise on an international scale. The drug smuggling has always been the integral part to the transnational drug organization. Of all the crimes related to illicit drug trafficking, drug smuggling has its place and gives an international character to drug-related criminal business, because only in the framework of drug smuggling activities do criminal structures operating on different sides of borders join forces and interact between them.

  • Issue Year: 6/2022
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 107-113
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian