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Faculty of Security and Protection, Independent University of Banja Luka , Banja Luka , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Faculty of Security and Protection, Independent University of Banja Luka , Banja Luka , Bosnia and Herzegovina
The abuse of official position or authority as the main criminal act against official position causes various doubts and problems in practice regarding the features of offenders of that very action of execution, using official position, which is not clearly and concisely defined, and which is contrary to the principle of legality as the main postulate of Criminal law. In the paper, the authors analyze the elements of a criminal act, the act of execution, the offender, and the form of offence by providing examples from court practice with a critical review of a small number of those convicted of this criminal act of corruption. In the second part of the paper, a special attention is paid to the comparison of legal solutions of this criminal act in the neighboring countries.
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