Current challenges in combating economic crime in Ukrainian

Abstract

Economic crime is one of the key threats to the economic security of the state, especially in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine context. The full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation has increased risks in the financial sector and intensified transnational money laundering schemes, abuse of humanitarian aid, and corrupt practices. Economic crime adapts to digitalization, globalization, and crisis phenomena, which complicates its detection and counteraction. The research aims to identify the contemporary institutional and legal challenges of countering economic crime in Ukraine under conditions of armed conflict and post-war reconstruction, and to substantiate directions for improving the effectiveness of state policy in ensuring economic security. The study is based on doctrinal legal analysis using dialectical, systemic, structural-functional, and hermeneutic methods, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis. The regulatory legal acts of Ukraine and international documents, statistical data of state bodies, and scientific works of domestic and foreign authors were used. The following key challenges are identified: the economic crime multidimensionality and its ability to penetrate new areas of social relations; the transnational nature of offenses; the financial transactions digitalization and the crypto-instruments use; insufficient development and financing of the education system; oligarchizing of the economy; and risks of abuse in the cooperation sphere with the aggressor state. Effective counteraction to economic crime requires a comprehensive approach that combines legal, institutional, technological, and educational mechanisms; international cooperation development; and the modern financial monitoring and risk management systems implementation, as well as increasing public administration transparency.