The Role of Informants in Criminal Procedure of Economic Crime; Conditions and Obstacles

Economic crimes are important and global issue. Discovering and prosecution of economic crimes are imperative difficult. Often it involves government officials, head of business and companies who have some tools for covering their actions. One way of fight against economic crime is formal cooperation of offender with judicial as informant. This method, in one hand, guarantees security and it will insert economic offenders in unsafe situation in the other hand. Encouraging these people, who have more information about criminal action than anybody else, is important. UN convention on corruption recognized the important role of such people in the fight against crimes and provided certain rules such as article37, under cooperation with law enforcement authorities about this subject. This paper deals with the role of informants in Criminal Procedure of Economic Crime.