Business Crime Control

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Business Crime Control
(BCC)
legal form Registered association
founding 1991
Seat Main valley
main emphasis White-collar crime
Action space Germany
Members 200
Website www.businesscrimecontrol.org

Business Crime Control e. V. ( BCC ) is a non-profit association that deals with the topics of white-collar crime and corruption . The association acts as a political network and platform for journalists , publicists , authors and activists in the field of economic crime.

history

BCC was founded in 1991 and, according to its own information, had around 200 members in 2017. BCC is mainly used in the Frankfurt area. The association also has members in several EU member states. Founding chairman and honorary chairman since June 2011 is Hans See . The board consists of: Erich Schöndorf , chairman since 2011, as well as Hans Möller (deputy chairman), Victoria Knopp (secretary), Eberhard Ruoff (cashier), Reiner Diederich (assessor), Frank Ebert (assessor) and Herbert Stelz (assessor).

The founding members included:

The publication of the book Capital Crimes - The Management of Morals (Hans See, 1990) is considered to be a trigger for the establishment of BCC. The association is older than the organization Transparency International (TI), which was founded in 1993 and focuses on corruption , and, despite the greater attention that the media pays TI, has always pursued the goal of particularly illegal and illegitimate practices and the abuse of power in the economy to put at the center of the educational work. In contrast to Transparency International, neither government nor semi-government organizations are involved in the financing of BCC, nor can commercial enterprises become BCC members. The association is financed through membership fees, donations and the transfer of a fine.

Awards

On November 18, 2007, Business Crime Control received the Golden Award of Change from the artist Lucia Dellefant in Munich .

Members

Members and sponsors of BCC include: a. Uwe Dolata , Stephan Hessler , Martin Keßler , Helmut Kramer , Ingo Müller , Werner Rügemer , Dieter Schenk , Erich Schöndorf , Andreas Teufer , Hans Scharpf and Jean Ziegler .

Purpose of the association

For economic crimes, educates young people on the BCC on social scientific basis, include not only criminal offenses as in Germany in the Judicature Act are listed (GVG) and other, which the collar crime are assigned. In addition to known illegal practices such as corruption , tax evasion , money laundering , abuse of office , the formation of cartels with price fixing , manipulation of offers , insider trading , investment fraud and environmental destruction , the association also criticizes economic practices that have been legal up to now that harm individuals, society and the community. There are also business practices that have not yet been covered by law, such as food speculation, profit-driven layoffs and sham deals .

The association was the magazine BIG Business Crime until 2018 . Theory, practice and criticism of the criminal economy . It has existed as a trade journal since 2005; Before that, from 1992 Business Crime - Socio-ecological Democracy instead of Economic Crimes - was published , which was designed as a membership magazine and edited by Hans See . He also edited BIG Business Crime until the beginning of 2009 . Victoria Knopp has been the responsible editor since 2011. She was supported by the editors Reiner Diederich, Gerd Bedszent and Joachim Maiworm. Co-editors (besides BCC eV) are Stephan Hessler, Manfred Such, Otmar Wassermann and Jean Ziegler. The magazine was initially published quarterly as a print medium; since the end of 2018 it has only been available as an online magazine.

According to the statutes, BCC sees its tasks in:

  • promoting scientific research into the causes, structures, social, political, ecological, but also immaterial consequential damage caused by white-collar crime
  • Education and training
  • Educating the population about scientific findings and problems
  • Supporting research and publications on the abuse of economic power
  • Policy advice and the demonstration of ways to avoid and combat economic crimes in the broadest sense.

Achievements / effectiveness

Once a year, BCC organizes an annual conference that takes a critical look at the relationship between business and crime. The motto of the 2017 conference was "Growing inequality and capital crime. Consequences of neoliberal deregulation". There are also regular matinées at Club Voltaire in Frankfurt , which deal with a wide variety of cultural and political topics and are organized jointly by the art society and BCC and regularly attended by 15 to 50 guests.

In addition, individual members make essential contributions to the exposure and scandalization of corruption, abuse of office and embezzlement . In 2009, BCC focused on the issue of labor injustice.

In the 1990s, BCC contributed to establishing white-collar crime as an ongoing academic and journalistic topic. In an anthology by the BCC founders Hans See and Dieter Schenk, BCC member Erich Diefenbacher first examined how Liechtenstein foundations work in money laundering and similar transactions as early as 1992 . In October 1996 a congress on the subject of white-collar crime - criminal economy , organized by BCC (together with the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences ) took place in Frankfurt am Main , which is documented in an anthology of the same name (Heilbronn 1997) edited by Hans See and Eckart Spoo . Werner Rügemer was the first author to publish connections in the scandal surrounding the Cologne waste incineration plant .

BCC participated in resistance activities against cross-border leasing in Frankfurt am Main.

Press

  • Entrepreneur lobby reacts very cautiously to the subject of corruption , interview with Werner Rügemer (Business Crime Control), VDI nachrichten, Düsseldorf, May 9, 2008
  • Law-free economy - Business Crime Control in honorary office , Reinhard Jellen in Junge Welt , November 20, 2007
  • A fighter against the state within the state - Hans See wants to continue putting down economic criminals, Sascha Zoske in FAZ , June 18, 2002
  • On the trail of capital crimes - a private association fights against small and large economic criminals , Herbert Stelz in Die Zeit , No. 39, September 22, 1995
  • Blind spot - A German professor has founded an association against mafia-like practices in business , from Der Spiegel No. 23/1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Blind Spot . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1993 ( online ).
  2. ↑ BCC homepage , accessed on March 3, 2019
  3. ↑ award of change. award of change, archived from the original on May 3, 2012 ; accessed on June 6, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  4. ↑ a b Article in Junge Welt , accessed on May 13, 2008
  5. ↑ History of the website
  6. ↑ compare the opening speech of the deputy. Chairman Peter Menne. April 22, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ matinee of Art Society and BCC. Retrieved October 16, 2018 .
  8. ^ Labor injustice in Germany - Conference on March 14th, 2009 ( Memento of the original of January 22nd, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / businesscrime.de
  9. ↑ 600,000 tons of waste - MVA deal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kölner StadtRevue 10/1995, accessed on May 13, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.stadtrevue.com  
  10. ↑ Entrepreneur lobby reacts very cautiously to the issue of corruption  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , VDI nachrichten, accessed on May 13, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vdi-nachrichten.com  
  11. ↑ Copy of the print article ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the FAZ , accessed from www.wirtschaftsverbrechen.de on May 13, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / business-crime-control.de
  12. ↑ Copy of the print article  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Die Zeit , accessed from www.wirtschaftsverbrechen.de on May 13, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wirtschaftsverbrechen.de