A Criminological Overview of the Crime Situation in the Field of Foreign Economic Relations

Sergei Aleksandrovich Sirma

The current phase in the establishment and consolidation of Russia’s State system highlights the development and implementation of measures to counteract organized crime in the field of foreign economic activities as a major crime-control policy priority.

The legitimacy of external economic activities is a guarantee of the economic security of states involved in external trade operations and a priority of Russia’s home and foreign policy. The development and implementation of an external economic policy concept is a complex task requiring contributions from all the branches of government — legislative, executive, and judicial.

Today, Russian and foreign experts are especially concerned over the geopolitical situation shaped in the CIS (the former Soviet Union) by ethnic, social, and religious conflicts, which resulted in State border status uncertainty, mass-scale population migration, and broad opportunities for conducting transit operations. Besides, criminal groups in post-socialist countries pool efforts with criminal organizations in some Western countries to expand illegal business operations and build a far-flung network of smuggling channels.

These facts are a source of concern to officials in Russia, the United States, and other countries and oblige all the parties involved to develop a common concept to promote intensive international cooperation among law-enforcement agencies to terminate organized criminal activities in the field of external economic relations.

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