MECHANISMS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION INCOMBATING ORGANIZED CRIME AND REDUCINGITS ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS

Organized crime, in the context of globalization, has become a cross-border phenomenon and, as such, its control can not be achieved only at national level but integrated into global, regional and sub regional one. Moreover, the existing tools and future solutions should provide realtime operating as consuming complex cross-border criminal acts menus very quickly, and the coordinators of these networks follow illegal placing of offenses in the legal circuit, as the money laundering, and in this way acquire a growing power, supplying underground economies at state and regional levels.