The Dimension of the Phenomenon of Economic Crime. A Hierarchical Classification of EU Countries at the Level of 2021

Iulia-Oana Florea and Kamer-Ainur Aivaz
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Iulia-Oana Florea: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Kamer-Ainur Aivaz: Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania

Economics and Applied Informatics, 2022, issue 3, 125-134

Abstract: Economic crimes cover a wide range of crimes, including fraud and fraud, money laundering, corruption, intellectual property crimes and environmental crimes. Economic crimes often have a cross-border element. The main objective of the research is to achieve a hierarchical classification of EU countries in terms of economic crime research, taking into account several specific indicators, indicators that constitute statistical variables of the research. Data classification methods aim to group statistical units into homogeneous groups or clusters according to recorded variables. Following the analysis, we can observe a very strange connection between the total number of Investigations initiated by the National Bureaus in 2021 and the number of investigations in which 2 countries are involved. At the same time, a very close connection can be observed between the total number of Investigations initiated by the National Bureaus in 2021 and the number of files still under investigation, opened in the years before 2021, from here we can conclude that the level of economic crime at the EU level is a consistent one in 2021 compared to previous years. We can also observe that both Germany, France and Italy are positioned very far from the rest of the countries, a possible explanation for this phenomenon is the efficiency and transparency of the judicial system in these countries, the low level of corruption that allows the investigation of more cases, but also the territorial extent and the high level of income from these countries, which attract a high level of economic crime.

Keywords: criminal justice; transnational fraud; economic crimes; investigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.35219/eai15840409296

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