Islamic Law

Islamic Law

Criminalization of offering bribes in white-collar crimes with a critical look at current regulations

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Assistant professor, Institute of Islamic Culture and Thought
Abstract
Bribe offer is one of the important issues that provides the basis for corruption and white-collar economic crimes. Nowadays, economic corruption has attracted the attention of national and international societies due to its destructive effects. In the regulations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite the adoption of the Merida Convention, which emphasizes the criminalization of the offer and promise of bribery and its members are obliged to implement it, not only is the promise and offer of bribery not criminalized, but there are many shortcomings such as restrictions on the issue of bribery. And its extent exists in terms of government officials and public and private sectors, natural and legal persons, and even in the criminalization of bribery in terms of Rashi and Mortashi. This article is based on the descriptive and analytical method by referring to jurisprudential and legal sources in order to prove that the evidence for banning bribery is general and includes offering bribes in corruption and white-collar economic crimes, and the issue of bribery is not just money, and its scope includes affairs It is financial and non-financial, and the exceptions to bribery and cases of bribery permissibility are specifically out of the scope of exceptions due to the nature of white-collar economic crimes.
Keywords

Subjects