English
Język Polski
FREEZING OF ASSETS AS PART OT THE FIGHT AGAINST ECONOMIC CRIME, INCLUDING FINANCIAL CRIME
Abstract
The concept of economic crime has been used in the legislation of many countries
for over 90 years. In Poland, as a result of systemic changes at the turn of the 1980s
and 1990s, this type of crime evolved. Criminals from this period, taking advantage
of such factors as the lack of appropriate legislation, services unprepared for a new
type of threats, the possibility of free movement between former socialist countries,
and countries in Western Europe, created many groups dealing with illegal activities
aimed at the economic sphere, be it private or state entities. Taking into account the
specificity of acts falling within the scope of economic crime as well as the scale of
the damage caused, the prosecution of perpetrators is not as effective as in criminal
offenses. One of the most effective tools used in the fight against “white-collar” criminals
is freezing of assets. Such actions are very important, because only in 2020 in
Poland, as a result of economic investigations by special services, losses of the State
Treasury estimated at over PLN 20 billion were revealed.
Keywords:
economic crime, assets, Police, freezing of assets, securityDetails
References
Statistics
Authors
Citation rules
Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
