Criminal Law
Sina Rostami; Hamid Bahrehmand
Abstract
whistleblowing is one of the important tools in fighting corruption and strengthening transparency and justice in societies. Considering the limitations and shortcomings of official supervision, the need to discover organized and systematic corruption, facilitate the process of investigation and prosecution, ...
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whistleblowing is one of the important tools in fighting corruption and strengthening transparency and justice in societies. Considering the limitations and shortcomings of official supervision, the need to discover organized and systematic corruption, facilitate the process of investigation and prosecution, promote transparency and public trust, encourage prevention and fight against corruption, pay attention and focus on criminal policies. Participation has increased as a legal tool to encourage and support whistleblowers and strengthen whistleblowing. Iran's legal system took its first step in this field by offering financial support to whistleblowers, but its action is only based on the support aspect. Therefore, in an efficient and systematic manner, it has not been able to use the functions and capacities of the collaborative criminal policy in relation to the disclosure of corruption as it should and deserves; Because the use of collaborative criminal policy capacities requires other efficient and systematic legal measures and platforms. For this purpose, the current research, based on descriptive and analytical methods and based on library sources, concludes that the use of collaborative criminal policy capacities with the fundamental and fundamental challenge of the lack of measures and criteria for determining the scope of the whistleblower, the scope of the whistleblower, the method of whistleblowing is to protect the whistleblower, which is neglected in the mentioned plan. In this regard, the present research, while explaining and analyzing the challenges facing the legislator, in the light of the solutions adopted by other leading and pioneering countries in this field, provides measures and criteria to overcome the challenges. It helps to facilitate the legalization of corruption disclosure in Iran's legal system.
Criminal Law
Omid Rostami Ghazani; Mohsen Rahmani Fard
Abstract
Given the importance of the offence of smuggling of goods and currency, the legislature has taken a strictly differential approach to this offence, but in some cases, the legislature has taken a more differential approach to some instances of this offence. Organized smuggling of goods and currency is ...
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Given the importance of the offence of smuggling of goods and currency, the legislature has taken a strictly differential approach to this offence, but in some cases, the legislature has taken a more differential approach to some instances of this offence. Organized smuggling of goods and currency is one of them. With a descriptive and analytical approach, this article seeks to identify the concept of organized smuggling and then the measures taken by the legislature to combat it and the challenges in front. In the Law of Combat Against Smuggling of Goods and Currency, for the first time, the legislator introduced the concept of organized smuggling of goods and currency to the Iranian legal literature and, with the aim of a strict response, envisaged differential substantive and formal measures, such as: Absolute criminalization of this behavior, intensification of punishment of organized members and leaders of the organized group, the anticipation of jurisdiction for the Revolutionary Court, identification of special discoverer organizations and provision of special powers and duties for them. Despite the large volume of smuggling in the country for reasons such as the narrow interpretation of the offence of smuggling of goods and currency from the Supreme Court, the lack of familiarity with the characteristics and criteria for detecting organized smuggling and the haste of attending authorities of smuggling of goods and currency, in practice, many detected smuggling cases are considered normally.
Criminal Law
Mohammadali Ardebili; Mohammad Ali Mahdavi Sabet,; HOJAT NAJARZADEH AHARI
Abstract
In United Nations Convention Against Corruption and other international conventions and National law having a wealth without justification by public officials it has been introduced as one of the examples of corruption. Wealth without justification or disproportionate is said to be disproportionate to ...
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In United Nations Convention Against Corruption and other international conventions and National law having a wealth without justification by public officials it has been introduced as one of the examples of corruption. Wealth without justification or disproportionate is said to be disproportionate to the legal and recognized income of the public officials. One of the main reasons of anticipation of such a regulations in international conventions and domestic Law is the complexity of the proving of crimes related to corruption and the help of the prosecution to exempt them from the proving of crimes so as to justify the legitimacy of the property on the public officials. The penal reaction to such wealth varies in different countries. Some emphasised the wealth and the attempt to confiscate assets that are unjustified and some have emphasised the types of sanctions such as fines, imprisonment and confiscation. According to relevant laws and regulations, it can now be said that iran's law lacks a penal response to the unjustified wealth of public officials and the article 49 of Constitutional law and Article 2 of the punishment of perpetrators of bribe and embezzlement and fraud cannot be used in this regard.
Criminal Law
HOJAT NAJARZADEH AHARI; Mohammad Ali Ardebili; Nasrin Mehra; Mohammadali Mahdavi
Abstract
The exchange of public interest with private interests is a brief definition of “corruption”, and its existence indicates the misfunction of the public institutions. Corruption is an anti - value phenomenon and is disruptive to the rule of law, so that prevention of it is an undeniable necessity ...
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The exchange of public interest with private interests is a brief definition of “corruption”, and its existence indicates the misfunction of the public institutions. Corruption is an anti - value phenomenon and is disruptive to the rule of law, so that prevention of it is an undeniable necessity for governments. More than that the prevention of corruption directly relates to the legitimacy of each country’s political systems. Meanwhile monitoring the property of public officials is one of the tools of preventing and combating corruption in most countries. It is often impossible to detect and prosecute corruption offenses because of the hidden nature of these crimes. Yet the best solution for overcoming this problem is to focus on the property of the officials. In line with global developments and the desire to keep up with the means of fighting with corruption, laws have been passed in Iran to stand against corruption. The law of property monitoring of authorities, officials and agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran approved by The Nation’s Exigency Council in1394 is one of the results. The adoption of the Act itself is a step forward, but its effectiveness and usefulness must be measured in practice. From the surveying that have been carried out, it becomes apparent that the defects in the above law are noticed, including the fact that the mechanism for checking the property during the service has not been conceived, as the important discussion of the conflict of interest has not been mentioned and the law has not been sufficiently sanctioned. In short, the accepted standards of developed countries in combating against corruption are not included in the Iranian Law, and the need to resolve and correct the weaknesses of the law is strongly felt.
