Research topic: Investigation of causes of corruption in Ukraine. Scientific study of financial corruption as the main factor in the decline of the national economy. Development of new effective methods aimed at prevention, investigation and mitigation of the impact of corruption and financial crime, using the European experience, determining the impact of the human factor.
Relevance: Currently, the situation in Ukraine demonstrates both the high level of corruption in the financial and economic spheres, and, therefore, a low level of economic and financial security, and the failure of existing law enforcement agencies, which are tasked to identify and investigate any offenses in the financial sphere, to counteract the growth of the financial and economic crime. This issue is very important both for Ukraine but for the majority of East European countries. This study pays special attention to the human factor, which directly influences the development of corruption in the country, which, in its turn, leads to decreased financial and economic security.
Our mission:
The purpose of this study is the prevention, reduction and eradication of financial corruption as the main factor in the decline of the economy using new methods of prevention, investigation and mitigation of the impact of corruption through the prism of the human factor. It implies the creation of a totally new, at the level of state, effective mechanism for combating corruption, which should consist of organizational, legal and practical measures to overcome its social conditions, eliminate the consequences of corruption and eradicate it. We expect to develop and substantiate innovative organizational and legal methods of improving the actions of law enforcement agencies in the fight against corruption and prevention and investigation of financial crimes, taking into account the experience of the EU. The research should address existing urgent problems of administrative and legal mechanism of activity of state law enforcement agencies engaged in the fight against corruption, as well as detection and investigation of financial crimes.
Program of the research group:
During the study we plan to:
- Define the concept and nature of financial corruption and its impact on the economic security of the country;
- Define the main causes of financial corruption, provide their classification (human factor, social factors, bureaucracy, etc.) and determine the consequences of its manifestations;
- Analyze, compare and determine the degree of influence of the human factor on the emergence and existence of financial corruption in countries with different levels of development of the society;
- Investigate the problem of low level of social culture of society as the cause of the emergence and existence of financial corruption. Substantiate that the risk of corruption is minimal in countries with the high level of social culture. Develop measures aimed at improving the social culture of the society as an effective mechanism to prevent corruption;
- Define the causal relationship between the subordinates and a chief as a tool of illicit enrichment of the latter;
- Investigate the impact of active measures of citizens aimed at the prevention of corruption on the moral and psychological state of the civil servant who performs a corrupt act. Develop a set of actions of citizens aimed at preventing corruption based on the research.
- Define the place of each law enforcement agency as the subject of the financial system and to define its tasks and functions aimed at the fight against financial corruption;
- Develop new, scientifically proven tools for preventing and combating financial corruption.