Some believe that economic crimes are in conflict with the criminal and economic laws and regulations that regulate various aspects of economic activities and ultimately endanger the public interest. Others consider economic crimes to be acts that are contrary to moral laws and involve violations of fundamental interests that society values and obtains. Crimes related to banking and foreign exchange transactions, exports and imports, illegal competition, fraud and deception in trade, embezzlement of public property and seizure of it, customs smuggling, crimes of abuse of influence and crimes of bribery and forced pricing, and in addition to that, a set of crimes that have recently emerged and are shaking the national economy, such as money laundering and what may result from the implementation of economic reform policies and the restoration of growth to the economy.
Economic crime, in its broadest sense, refers to all violations that endanger public and cooperative property, the means of production, and the regulation of industrial, agricultural, and occupational production, and lead to harm to the national economy or to the acquisition of illegitimate and illegal personal gain.