European Cooperation (Feb 2016)
GENESIS OF INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR INTENTIONAL VIOLATION OF LEGISLATION ON PREVENTION OF LEGALIZATION (LAUNDERING) OF PROCEEDS FROM CRIME OR TERRORIST FINANCING IN UKRAINE WITH INTERNATIONAL CHANGES LEGISLATION IN THIS AREA
Abstract
The author examines the institution of criminal liability for willful violation of the law on prevention of legalization of proceeds from crime and terrorist financing and determine the effect of international law in this area in the development. To that analyzed a number of important international legal acts in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing. First of all analyzed such regulations the Council of Europe and the European Union as the Convention “ On Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime”, adopted by the Council of Europe the 8 December 1990; Convention “ On Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism”, adopted by the council of Europe May 16, 2005; Directive of the European Parliament and the council 2005/60/EC on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing, making October 26, 2005. Also analyzed the Forty Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering in editions of 2003 and 2012 and model legislation on money laundering and terrorist financing, developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Monetary Fund.On this basis, were considered changes to Article 209-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, envisages legal grounds for making the appropriate changes and their compliance with international law in the fight against legalization of proceeds from crime and terrorist financing.In the process of the study, author came to the following conclusions: Firefox Criminal Code Article 209-1 Ukraine is consistent with the requirements of international law in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing; inadequacy of Article 209-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and the inefficiency of this article in the law enforcement practice prevented Ukraine will fulfill the undertaken international commitments to effective, adequate and effective sanctions, which should ensure the safety and functioning in Ukraine regime of supervision and control of financial intermediaries.
