Intrusive Investigative Crime

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Corruption can be considered a special crime where it might not involve reporting from a victim as both bribee and briber are winners in a corrupt transaction. It may be a situation where a corrupt public official receives a bribe from a contractor for granting his company a tender of a government project. This type of public corruption is relatively difficult to investigate and prosecute compared to other illegal acts (Wagner & Jacobs, 2014, p. 185). The reason is simply because corruption is often carried out by hidden ways and only among insiders, limited to a network of trusted actors and repeat customers (Lambsdorff, 2007, p.136-163) thus gathering of evidence is the biggest challenge for investigators and prosecutors.
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However, the method of obtaining information may lead to an invasion of privacy which can be considered an infringement of human rights. These intrusive investigation actions are carried out by enforcement agencies with legitimate aims, the question is what safeguards are to be put in place to prevent the unreasonable or arbitrary intrusion by enforcement agencies (Fenwick, p.993, …show more content…

Sometimes, these investigative techniques may be begin at an earlier stage in order to pursue preventive aims (Trechsel, 2005, p.540) especially for terrorism activities. Various kinds of surveillance will be performed once a person has been targeted as a suspect. These techniques might be used on someone other than the suspect who is believed to be involved in the committing of an offence. In the case of Greuter v Netherlands, it was held that the tapping of a telephone can be necessary for the prevention of crime, and lawful, even if the telephone is that of the partner of a suspect rather than the suspect himself (Clayton and Tomlinson, 2003,

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