Recovery of Criminal Proceeds from the Digital Environment: A Study of the Algerian Experience and International Efforts

Abstract

The issue of recovering illicit funds from the digital environment is one of the most prominent contemporary hot topics driving international criminal policy. This is because it concerns the transfer, smuggling, or physical recovery of funds from virtual environments, but its impact extends to a range of stages that include tracking the digital trail of financial transactions according to a virtual map that identifies the sources of these funds, their destinations, and the countries through which they pass. This makes it possible to collect digital evidence and to apply the appropriate legal and judicial measures at both the national and international levels under comprehensive international cooperation. In particular, as modern and intelligent technology techniques have increasingly emerged, money-laundering operations have grown in parallel with cybercrimes. Accordingly, it has become necessary to update national and international financial legal systems in order to confront these challenges for the purpose of recovering such funds, and thus to identify the most important mechanisms adopted in this field, which is of great importance in linking national and international coordination to protect national economic security and ensure financial stability.