The law protects everyone, who can hire a good lawyer.
(The Big Book of Aphorisms, K. Dushenko, 2001)
Economic crime – is a type of crime, the object of infringement of which are property and production relations, economic rights of citizens, legal entities, municipal and state formations, for which criminal liability is provided.
This category of crimes is the most complex because of its specificity, because many legal relations here are at the junction of criminal, administrative and civil legislation.
Therefore, do not try to defend yourself, for this will lead to serious irreparable mistakes. Turn immediately to to an economic crimes lawyer, as this category requires the highest qualification of the defender, because he has knowledge not only of criminal, but also civil, corporate, tax, customs and other laws, as well as knowledge of economics, accounting, financial and economic activities, and so on.
Depending on the signs of composition, economic crimes can be conditionally divided into types:
- in business or other economic activities:
- money laundering, fraud, embezzlement, theft, illegal entrepreneurial activity, creation of fictitious enterprises, violation of trade secrets, acquisition or sale of illegally obtained property, illegal use of a trademark, etc;
- crimes in monetary relations:
- Anything related to obtaining or repaying loans, counterfeiting money, also with the illegal manufacture and use of securities, credit cards, other settlement documents, etc;
- in the tax area:
- everything to do with concealment of property and funds, tax evasion, as well as falsification of tax returns, etc.);
- in the international, economic and customs spheres of the state:
- customs and export-import operations.
Types of liability directly depend on the severity of the economic crimeitself. Based on this, the punishment can be a fine (administrative responsibility, which is imposed by the court) or imprisonment (criminal responsibility).
There have been cases in legal practice where the timely involvement of a lawyer for economic crimes has led to the closure of the case even before the start of the trial.
The competence of an economic crimes attorney includes:
- protection of client’s interests at the stage of preliminary investigation (inquiry);
- consultations;
- assistance and preparation of the defendant for investigative actions, as well as direct participation in them;
- carrying out the necessary procedures for auditing businesses;
- legal expertise of the case materials;
- фppeals against court orders concerning restraints, criminal proceedings, etc;
- to appeal against wrongful acts of law enforcement agencies;
- development of a line of defense, in the variant of the indictment.
And this is not the whole list of services economic crimes lawyer, for each specific situation requires an individual approach.
But whatever happens in life, don’t despair.
It should always be remembered that there is no such thing as a dead end.
