Perspectives of Law and Public Administration (Dec 2019)

THE CRIME OF TRAFFIC OF INFLUENCE IN THE NEW INCRIMINATION FORMULA

  • Andrada Nour

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 2
pp. 358 – 367

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Corruption is an extremely complex phenomenon, contrary to the democratic principle, manifested negatively in both domestically and internationally. Thus, mainly internally, corruption generates distrust in the institutions of the state and the administration of justice, affects economic progress and good governance, and externally, alter the credibility and image of the state. Corruption can know in practice a variety of forms, traffic of influence being one of the most representative expressions of corruption. Since traffic of influence falls in the category of the crimes with a very high degree of social danger, it has been incriminated in international and community legal documents of reference for combating corruption. In our country, it tries to combat this crime by regulations aimed at a variety of concrete forms of expression, regulation which are the subject of our study.

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