Vol. 8 No. 24 (2019)
Articles

An overview of some manifestations of transnational organized crime in Ukraine

Ihor Zahorodnii
Department of Criminalistics of National University «Odesa Law Academy»
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Kateryna Manuyilova
Department of International and European Law of National University «Odesa Law Academy»
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Oksana Belogubova
Department of International and European Law of National University «Odesa Law Academy»
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Published 2019-11-21

Keywords

  • Criminal activity, transnational organized crime, illicit firearms trafficking, illicit trafficking in narcotic substances, the sphere of trafficking and operation of motor vehicles.

How to Cite

Zahorodnii, I., Manuyilova, K., & Belogubova, O. (2019). An overview of some manifestations of transnational organized crime in Ukraine. Amazonia Investiga, 8(24), 426–430. Retrieved from https://www.amazoniainvestiga.info/index.php/amazonia/article/view/1002

Abstract

In the article, the authors express their view on the peculiarities of the use of certain territories in Ukraine in transnational organized criminal activity. The purpose of the study is to identify and structure the major trends in the impact of the political situation in Ukraine (from 2014 to 2019) on the emergence of new manifestations of transnational organized crime. Special attention is paid to the coverage and systematization of modern manifestations of criminal activity in the areas of drug trafficking, psychotropic substances, their analogs or precursors, the circulation of firearms, explosives, and devices, as well as the circulation and operation of vehicles.

Through the use of systematic analysis and formal-logical methods, based on the processing of the results of the activities of law enforcement agencies, as well as the materials contained in the media, the authors analyzed the main ways of implementing the outlined manifestations of transnational organized criminal activity in Ukraine in recent years.

As a result of the conducted research, a set of the most effective measures to counteract the outlined manifestations of transnational organized criminal activity, taking into account the changes taking place in Ukraine, on the background of step-by-step implementation of the Minsk agreements (agreements), was proposed.

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