...Andries P. Swanepoel; Jacolize Meiring Purpose Economic crime is a serious challenge to business leaders, government officials and private individuals in South Africa. Given the important role of law enforcement, prosecution and sentencing in deterring economic crimes, the purpose of this paper...

...Robert Michael Axelrod Purpose This paper aims to suggest alternative suspicious activity analyses to improve the focus of financial institution reporting to law enforcement and to identify some limitations in the current practice. Design/methodology/approach This paper employs...

...Kenneth Roderick Murray Purpose – The purpose of this article was to argue that developing an understanding of organised crime business structures is a necessary component of a modern effective law enforcement response and this must found on initiatives to improved capture of relevant business...

...Barry Rider Purpose This paper aims to address in a comparative context the role of intelligence in law enforcement and in particular the significance of intelligence‐led policing. Design/methodology/approach The discussion is based on the experience of the author over the last 40 years...

... in the Western Balkans, findings based on Albania are suggestive only for similar societies and indicate areas for future research. Originality/value The paper demonstrates that mechanisms of customary norms such as vendetta and blood feud killings can neutralise the judiciary and law enforcement agencies...

...Thomas P. Ott Purpose This paper seeks to identify the internal threats posed to financial institutions by international organized crime (IOC) groups, and outline relevant law enforcement strategies. Design/methodology/approach Case studies and historical data from several US law enforcement...

... entitled “White Collar Crime in Canada: An Integrated Law‐Enforcement Approach.” More than 60 senior officials from law‐enforcement organizations, regulatory agencies, investigative bodies, federal government policy and regulatory departments, the major banking institutions, academia and the private sector...

... of European fraud is chronicled and the observations of authors in this issue (JFC, Vol. 17 No. 1) are noted. Findings EU fraud has so far received low priority in the law enforcement's hierarchy of prosecutable offences. However, it is possible, even of this late juncture, to co‐ordinate efforts...

...Simone White; Petrus C. van Duyne; Elena Stocco; Vanja Bajovic; Miroslava Milenović; Elizabeta E. Lojpur Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the state of corruption in Serbia, based on available empirical evidence produced by the penal law‐enforcement agencies...

... in depth. Practical implications The paper is of interest to anyone engaging in cross‐border activities with the USA, particularly multi‐national financial organizations. Originality/value The paper provides an insight into the US law enforcement tools that may be deployed against multi‐national...

... insiders and criminal businesses in committing fraud. The harshness of the Chinese law has not automatically resulted in making the struggle against bank fraud more effective. Law, enforcement and punishment are not certain, predictable, and applied consistently in order to deter fraud. Political...

...Bryan Fodor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual viewpoint of the appropriate theoretical framework for measuring the integrity of capital markets from a regulatory/law‐enforcement perspective. Design/methodology/approach This paper discusses the metrics involved...

.... They then dump the securities to make profits. Insider trading Law enforcement Securities Regulation China Actually, we did discover a large number of cases through our detection efforts. But the Party disciplinary committees wanted to deal with them through the Party and government's internal...

...Arthur D. Middlemiss; Nishi Gupta Purpose This paper aims to illustrate by example the value of interagency cooperation between US and international law enforcement and regulatory agencies. Design/methodology/approach General review of post‐9/11 criminal cases brought by the Manhattan District...

...Margaret E. Beare Purpose The objective of this paper is to challenge some of the rhetoric pertaining to the “harm” caused by “dirty” money infiltrating into the “legitimate economy.” The arguments regarding the impact of dirty money have been used to justify enhancements to law enforcement powers...

... to be applied to civil law regimes is effectively inconsistent with common law jurisdictions and needs to be re‐thought and rewritten. It will be contested that in order for there to be a proper exchange of criminal intelligence law enforcement needs to ensure that proper structures are in place to deal...

...Frank J. Marine Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the development and nature of organized crime in the USA over the past 50 years, emphasizing organized crime's corruption and victimization of legitimate businesses and describing law enforcement's efforts to combat organized crime...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 International cooperation Terrorism Law enforcement South East Asia Oceania Journal of Financial Crime Ð Vol. 12 No. 4 Regional and International Cooperation in Tackling Transnational Crime, Terrorism and the Problems of Disrupted States John McFarlane...

... to maintain the balance between protection of investors and public without discouraging companies from going public and seeking listing. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 International cooperation Terrorism Law enforcement South East Asia Oceania Journal of Financial Crime Ð Vol. 12...

... problems for law enforcement arising from the lack of records in hawala, or sometimes an excess of confusing records, and the mix of various businesses which tend to coexist with hawala transactions; also linguistic issues, cultural and legal or administrative differences between communities and countries...