Organized money and systemic crime

Authors

  • António Avelãs Nunes Faculdade de Direito de Coimbra, Portugal

Keywords:

financial capital, neoliberalism, speculation, money laundering, political capture

Abstract

This paper investigates how so-called “organized money” acts as a central vector of systemic crime, using global freedom of financial flows and tax havens to perpetrate a series of practices that can be classified as crimes against humanity. Under the neoliberal paradigm that emerged after the oil crisis of the 1970s, financial capital gained hegemony over productive capital, consolidating itself through speculation, corruption, money laundering, market manipulation, and political capture. This model is based on complicity between the state and financial elites, which guarantees impunity and excludes major operators from criminal accountability. The analysis shows that the current system not only allows but is structured around criminal logic, requiring a democratic reconfiguration of financial regulation and global governance.

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Author Biography

António Avelãs Nunes, Faculdade de Direito de Coimbra, Portugal

Professor Catedrático Jubilado da Faculdade de Direito de Coimbra. Doutor Honoris Causa pelas Universidades Federais de Alagoas, do Paraná e da Paraíba. Sigillo d’Oro da Università Degli Studi di Foggia. Doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidad de Valladolid.

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Published

2019-07-01

How to Cite

NUNES, António Avelãs. Organized money and systemic crime. Boletim IBCCRIM, São Paulo, v. 27, n. 320, p. 2–6, 2019. Disponível em: https://publicacoes.ibccrim.org.br/index.php/boletim_1993/article/view/2436. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2026.

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Vol. 27 No. 320 (2019): Boletim IBCCRIM - Julho

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Doutrina

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