Legal Issues Regarding the Economic Crime Suppression

Abstract

The dissertation aims to study the basic knowledge, legal concepts and legal theories regarding the economic crime suppression, including legal measures thereof both in Thailand and overseas. The study will also mention about the legal problem and how to properly tackle the problem arising from the economic crime suppression.

          The study found that there being no specific legal measure to suppress the economic crime, the unchartered problem with respect to economic crime suppression, the problem regarding the authorized public sectors, the problem regarding the control and operation of economic crime suppression by the state, the aforementioned problems, therefore, directly effect on the trust of people towards the economic system.

The problems are also the cause of the gap of the law for criminals to exploit of advantage without the fear as there is no effective enforcement of laws by the state. The researcher is of the opinion that there should be the draft of bill on economic crime suppression B.E. …. provided that the bill must provide clearly of legal measure for economic crime suppression. The bill must provide definition of “economic crime” and provide the act considered as offense, as well as the element of offense by way of the codification of the relevant existing law. The bill must provide a specific public sector, name as “department of economic crime suppression”, and grant the authority to govern in the area of the suppression of economic crime. And the bill must provide that the department must operate under the operation of commission where the functions of the commission are to control and operate the suppression of economic crime.