Courts Surveillance over Covert Entrapment Operations in Economic Crime

Economic crimes are a serious growing threat posing a great danger to all societies. These crimes are difficult to discover and thus fight for their specific features including invisibility, no victimization, large size and professionalism of the perpetrators. Therefore, covert entrapment operations and traps facilitates the fight against these crimes; however, arresting the perpetrators who are trapped during a covert entrapment operation, always arise doubts. In this case, the court should play its supervisory role in order to eliminate errors, improve prevention and detection methods, provide transparency and remove ambiguity of the secret nature of these operations. Therefore, the court needs criteria for distinguishing legitimate and illegitimate entrapments. This paper examines the criteria for court surveillance over covert entrapment operations, while scrutinizing the court's final decision on defendants caught in these entrapments. This paper examines the criteria for court surveillance over covert entrapment operations, while scrutinizing the court's final decision on defendants caught in these entrapments.