Criminalization of Not Reporting Terrorism Financing as an Instance of Criminal Apathy

Terrorism is a cross-border crime that can be prevented by identifying and controlling its financing of a large part of terrorist acts. In order to deal with this phenomenon, it should be a public duty to announce and inform about the financing of terrorism. Indifference to such a phenomenon and refusal to take the necessary action to prevent the commission of the crime, while facilitating its occurrence and not assisting the criminal justice system in detecting the crime and prosecuting terrorists, will cause irreparable damage. Given the importance of the issue, legislators at the national level have tried to take an important step in combating terrorism by refusing to report the financing of terrorism as one of the examples of criminal apathy. The present study uses a descriptive-analytical method to explain that the Iranian legislature, although in the face of indifference to the financing of terrorism, has correctly kept pace with developments in criminal law around the world, but this with drawbacks such as; Failure to determine the exact location of the reports, failure to approve an article to encourage citizens to report or support the reporting persons and their families, failure to determine the exact, fixed and appropriate punishment for those who refuse to report, etc. Be. In this study, while explaining the problems and comparative study with the laws of other countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, attempts have been made to make suggestions to solve them.