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The Need of the European Public Prosecutor's Office in the Context of Strengthening the Integration

EIRP Proceedings, 2014
In this research we intend to have an objective analysis on the necessity of establishing within the European Union an institution with the role of tracking, investigating prosecuting criminal cases on union funds fraud.
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EPPO, Conflicts and the €100,000 Financial Threshold: 'A Means to Circumvent Investigation?'

Utrecht Law Review
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) is an independent public prosecution office of the EU responsible for PIF Offences. The EPPO has primacy over PIF Offences: if a criminal case is within its competence it has the power to handle the case ...
Andrew Zuidema
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligence College in Europe - a New Challenge for the European Union?

EIRP Proceedings, 2020
For the European Union, the issue of ensuring security, coupled with the defense of citizens' rights and freedoms, is becoming increasingly important in the context of amplifying serious threats such as terrorism, extremism, corruption, fund fraud or ...
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External Effects of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office Regime [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
The enhanced cooperation for establishing the EPPO as a new and genuine transnational investigating framework for combating crimes affecting the financial interests of the EU promises effectiveness and a means for overcoming institutional paralysis in transnational criminal cases.
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi, Jere R. Francis, Antonio Marra, Nicola Pecchiari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The CJEU Ruled that the EncroChat Data can be Admissible Evidence in the EU

European Journal of Risk Regulation
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled, in Case C-670/22 Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin v M.N. (EncroChat), that a public prosecutor’s office may also request a European Investigation Order without a court order to obtain encrypted data from another
Andi Hoxhaj
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Directive (EU) 2017/1371 on the Fight Against Fraud to the Union's Financial Interests by Means of Criminal Law: A Missed Goal?

European Papers, 2018
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1455-1469 | European Forum Insight of 22 October 2018 | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Legislative background and choice of the legal basis. - III. Content of
Costanza Di Francesco Maesa
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