The main threats to economic security of the country

Abstract

At present, in the period of complicated international legal relations, there is an intensive need for ensuring economic security of our country. It is the economic sphere that is the ground for internal policy of the government, the human factors system of every citizen and society as a whole. As the main threats to economic security of our country, suboptimal public administration and a high level of criminalization and corruption in the economic sphere should be identified. In this article, the mentioned threats are considered as the main ones, based on the represented statistical data on the character of damage caused to economy of our country. Criminalization of the management sphere is widening every year, the percentage of official crimes committed is inexorably rising. The amount of embezzlement of budget funds committed by persons whose official duties are directed at protecting the national interests and performing basic governmental objectives, is also staggering. A large enough volume of legal acts directed at regulating management processes and narrowing the “sector for abuse” is adopted annually, however, the number of offenses does not reduce. In this connection, we propose to change the approach to measures of legal liability for committed deeds.