{"id":1922,"date":"2018-09-03T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmimmobrokers.com\/criminal-compliance-una-guia-sencilla\/"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:46:58","slug":"criminal-compliance-some-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmimmobrokers.com\/en\/criminal-compliance-some-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Compliance: some guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>Criminal Compliance and criminal liability of legal persons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the INE (Spanish Stadistics Office), in 2016 there were 131,505 convictions for economic crimes in Spain (fraud, money laundering, documentary falsification, crimes against finance, etc &#8230;).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since 2010, a series of reforms of the Criminal Code have been carried out to implement the responsibility of legal persons as well as fundamental decisions of the Supreme Court on this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Principal Objectives of the Reforms operated since 2010<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That the crime is committed in the name or on behalf of the company and for their benefit.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That it falls on a legal person the commission of any of the offenses established in the Penal Code.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That in the commission of crimes there has been an absence of control mechanisms and \/ or prevention of irregular activities carried out, and lack of corporate culture to prosecute crimes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Penalties of the legal entity and possible mitigation:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From fines to the dissolution of the legal person in radical cases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Closure of premises, prohibition of practice, loss of subsidies, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Attenuation: when the company collaborates with justice.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Incognito and problematic for the collaboration of the legal person:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The main issues rely on the forms of fraud detection in foreign affiliates of companies: Who can detect it? When does it detect it? How do you detect it? Indeed, if you are abroad you cannot really know what is happening on a daily basis from the mother company into your subsidiaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>The Corporate Compliance. Definition of the Concept:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is no specific definition of this concept, but it is under debate in Anglo-Saxon countries since the 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Corporate Compliance is a mechanism that acts in several areas of a company such as Management, IT, Financial, Legal, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The purpose of this mechanism is to protect a legal entity from the possible crimes of its employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Basic constituent elements of Corporate Compliance:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The development of Corporate Compliance within a company can find its basis in the following tasks:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The prevention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In addition to implementing control protocols, there must be a new and clear corporate culture in the company, with specific values \u200b\u200band behaviours, making available to employees the necessary resources and training means to avoid the possible commission of economic crimes as well as your report or discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>The challenges of Corporate Compliance:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The biggest problem for the implementation of a good Corporate Compliance is the high level of specialisation of each legal entity, which causes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Great technical complexity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Excessive volume of documentation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Problems with the economic management of the company.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In summary, it is very difficult to transfer a corporate compliance model between companies, which means that this type of mechanism must be &#8220;handmade&#8221; in each organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Conclusion:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A malpractice or the lack of a corporate compliance can entail the following risks:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The legal risk: sanctions against the company, fines, prohibitions, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The economic risk: economic losses, important fines, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reputational and image risk which sometimes could be worse than economical fines.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Therefore, it is recommended to think about advising and trying to include within Corporate organisation a Corporate Compliance and also a corporate culture focused on compliance with Spanish regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal Compliance and criminal liability of legal persons According to the INE (Spanish Stadistics Office), in 2016 there were 131,505 convictions for economic crimes in Spain (fraud, money laundering, documentary falsification, crimes against finance, etc &#8230;). 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