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Juridical-dogmatic analysis of terrorism financing offenses

Authors

  • Ignacio Javier Plaza Chávez Abogado

Abstract

For several years experts have thougth that one of the most effective ways to attack terrorism consists of obstructing its funding. This is one of the main topics considered by the International Communuty in the last time. It is for this reason that in Chile took place the promulgation, in 2003, of the article 8 of the law Nº 18,314, which expressly regulate the offenses related to terrorism financing. Later, in 2009, the law Nº 20,393 made the penal responsability extensive to legal persons for the financing of terrorist activities. It is the aim of this paper to study these rules, analyzing this offense from a juridicaldogmatic point of view, usually unwatched by the national doctrine, maybe because of the recent incorporation and scarce practical application that has had this penal type. However, the latter don’t diminish the importance or actually to the paper, which is directly relates to one of the major scourages of our time, the phenomenon of the terrorism, and one of the most effective ways to prevent it, through the interference of his financing.

Keywords:

anti-terrorist legislation, article 8 law Nº 18.314, terrorism financing, juridical-dogmatic analysis, funding sources