O sigilo bancário e os interesses da organização das nações unidas: garantias à paz e segurança internacional

Abstract

The ideal of a lasting state of peace has always been followed by every Nation and a large number of national and international institutions. The United Nations – UN, in this view, has an importat role, since it was created to maintain peace and international security. Searching the achieve of this ideals, however, the UN has found many difficulties and some obstacles. Among them, the protection to banking secrecy has been observed as an important mean to disseminate criminal activities which goes beyond the countries boundaries. Therefor, looking for fight against the transnational organized crime, efforts has been made in the meaning that the banking secrecy break do not continue limitated to judiciary permission, so the public administration will also have the possibility to do it, giving it the possibility to fight those acts in a more efficient way. Therefor, the debate is about the necessity to promote this flexibility, the interests protected and the benefits to society which will be promoted with the modification of the comprehension about banking secrecy.