The impact of economic crime on investment

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the seriousness of economic crime for the national economy; In particular in the field of foreign investment as the main driver of development and the alternative to exports, the rate of economic progress of the States is today measured by the extent to which they attract various investments as one of the main axes of the economic development of a nation. It is on this basis that various states seek to strengthen the foreign investment market in order to increase their economic power. In addition, the study revealed the implications of these crimes for the investment climate; today, economic crime has become a concept and dimension other than what was previously known. Technological development and globalization have contributed to the emergence of highly sophisticated forms of financial crime, the gravity of which is compatible with crime and the overall development of the economic sphere, as well as the traditional crimes that have emerged in a very effective and criminal form.