OPPOSING CORRUPTION IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS BY REMEDIES - THE CASE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Cover Image

SUPROTSTAVLJANJE KORUPCIJI U MEĐUNARODNIM POSLOVNIM TRANSAKCIJAMA PRAVNIM SREDSTVIMA – SLUČAJ BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
OPPOSING CORRUPTION IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS BY REMEDIES - THE CASE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Author(s): Miloš Trifković
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption, Commercial Law
Published by: Sveučilište/Univerzitet "VITEZ"
Keywords: corruption; international business transactions; Bosnia and Herzegovina; oppression of the corruption; law; criminal law;

Summary/Abstract: According to Transparency International, corruption is abuse of entrusted public or private authority for personal gain. Te corruption is a societal apparition which is present to day not only in societies organized as states, but in global community too. However, single states and sectors of social life have specific causes and forms of corruption, as well as specific ways and means for their oppression. These specificities of corruption and the fight against it in international business transactions of B&H subjects are subject matter of the paper. Particular causes of the corruption in the observed domain created de facto system of “grand” and “petite” corruption. Main features of this system are high pervasiveness and high arbitrariness of corruptive acts. The fight against negative consequences of such a model of corruption has distinctly state character and philosophy. That is why in B&H the essential element of the system for fighting corruption in international business transactions are legal means generally and criminal law instruments particularly.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 35-67
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian