A repressão as pirâmides financeiras no Brasil: uma análise sobre a possibilidade de tipificação específica da conduta

Abstract

The following research sought to verify preliminarily the concepts and characteristics of the already known fraud called financial pyramid, as its emergence and evolution through the history. Besides that, contextualize this wrongdoing into the actuality aspects, like the internet, social media and democratization of investments. Analyze ways to prevent and fight this kind of crime, and lastly, measure the possibility of bring the conduct for the penal code as autonomous. In this essay, he opted to perform a bibliography deep review that works in respect for the theme, analyzing professionals’ opinions, laws projects and official publications about the subject. The financial pyramid are illegal commercial models, that depends progressive recruitment of the investors to maintain the cash entrance and sustain the scheme. Nowadays, the miss of a specific rule to regularize the wrongdoing, which fights the non-effective and become its own current practice, being the problematic that is discussed in this present work. In purpose to make a standard looking to accelerate a possible interruption of the scheme, bringing more security to the financial economic order, minimizing the damages caused to the victims, was consist that the best way to repress the crime is creating a rule with a certain delimitation and categorical that makes the determinate commercial model to consider in a pyramid scheme.