Special Investigative Actions in Financial Crimes

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Special Investigative Actions in Financial Crimes

Georgios Kontogeorgis

DIP: 18.02.007/20251002

DOI: 10.25215/2455/1002007

Received: March 25, 2025; Revision Received: April 12, 2025; Accepted: April 15, 2025

Abstract

Economic crime, and especially white-collar crime, is committed by people who have a special place in society. This enables them to successfully hide the evidence and data relating to the financial crimes they commit. The aim of this article is to identify good practices in the area of financial crime data collection. Successful data collection will lead to a reduction in financial crime and the return of illegally obtained funds to the public treasury. The research methodology is a literature review of academic articles and reports from institutions involved in the investigation of financial crime. The main finding of this article is that the investigation of financial crimes is a demanding process that requires the application of special investigative techniques, transnational cooperation, the existence of standards and rules, a legislative framework and the cooperation of financial institutions. The main proposals for improving the effectiveness of financial investigations are the introduction of stricter and more modern legislation, the use of new technologies and the creation of communication platforms. Moreover, there is a number of proposals that banks should adopt to improve their investigative techniques for financial investigations.

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The author(s) appreciates all those who participated in the study and helped to facilitate the research process.

The author(s) declared no conflict of interest.

This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Georgios Kontogeorgis @ giorgos.kontogeorgis@gmail.com

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

DIP: 18.02.007/20251002

DOI: 10.25215/2455/1002007

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Volume 10 Issue 2, April – June, 2025

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