Bosnia and Herzegovina's anti-fraud campaign: regulatory and legal challenges

• Authors: Novaković Filip
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the analysis of the legal perspective of the actions taken by Bosnia and Herzegovina in combating financial fraud. The text begins with a presentation of the country’s social and political history, which allows for understanding the difficulties in building appropriate regulations that create a stable legal framework capable of protecting the country’s financial or tax system from rapidly adapting financial crime. Various aspects of financial fraud are analysed in this research. The presented path of creating legal regulations in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an overview of legislative reforms, institutional restructuring, and judicial practice. The main research problem is based on the analysis of jurisdictions’ reactions to financial fraud, taking into account the context of the post-war reconstruction of the country’s legal and institutional structures and the influence of the international environment in this area. The main research question is: what types of legal actions taken by Bosnia and Herzegovina to combat financial fraud are the most effective?

Keywords

EN

financial fraud; Bosnia and Herzegovina; judicial practice; legal framework; forensic expertise on business records

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2024
• Issue: 4(74)
• Pages: 85 - 102

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Novaković Filip

• University of Zenica

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