Affiliation:
1. Institute of Law of Lviv State University of Internal Affairs
Abstract
The activity of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine as a financial intelligence unit is aimed at protecting the national security of the state by initiating and ensuring the conduct of financial investigations related to the laundering of criminal proceeds, the financing of terrorism, and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Revealing the concept of the administrative and legal status of the State Financial Monitoring Service as a unit of financial intelligence, it is worth noting that the general understanding of the legal status involves the position of certain subjects in the state established by legal norms. Peculiarities of the legal status of state authorities are provided for in the normative legal acts that regulate their activities. In our opinion, to study the content of the administrative and legal status of the DSFM, it is appropriate to consider such structural elements as: purpose, functions, tasks and competence (rights and duties).
Analysis of the goals, functions, tasks and competences (rights and duties) of the State Financial Monitoring Service as a unit of financial intelligence established at the regulatory and legal level, as well as direct work on the implementation of such tasks, allows us to assert that the administrative and legal status of the State Financial Monitoring Service monitoring involves its active activity as a financial intelligence unit.
Therefore, the administrative-legal status of the State Financial Monitoring Service as a unit of financial intelligence should be considered as a set of interconnected elements established by administrative-legal norms, with the help of which the State Financial Monitoring Service implements its powers to prevent and counter the legalization (laundering) of income. proceeds of crime, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.