Esquema pirâmide: um crime sofisticado.

Abstract

The history of humanity is confused with the history of economic development. Throughout this story, there were times when there was no economic freedom for all. Ideological and social barriers prevented most men and women from achieving their dignities. With the advancement of the times, through many social revolutions, the principle of free initiative was established as the foundation of a state that claims to be democratic in law. Free initiative moves human development and is the way that makes the dignity of the human person effective. Business activity is the legally organized form of economic freedom in the social environment, establishing principles that guarantee the harmony between diverse interests and respect for man and the State. However, when economic freedom is used as a means to gain illicit gains at the expense of ordinary people and without much information, it becomes a social cancer that drastically affects the lives of millions of people. White-collar crime, committed by seemingly respectable people and in a non-violent way, affects society more seriously than blood crime, since it affects areas such as health and education, as well as bringing people to misery that, for in turn, is one of the factors of increased crime. One of the least discussed financial crimes in the legal environment, although very common in the business world, is the financial pyramid. A fancy multilevel marketing fraud that promises a high financial return in a short time, but that, in fact, is a lie that leads many people to bankruptcy. Companies such as Herbalife, Telexfree, BBom, Avon, Mary Kay, Boi Gordo, have already been convicted or at least accused of financial pyramid, given the large number of people who suffered losses. Economic criminal law is the legal area that has evolved in order to properly regulate, prevent and penalize financial pyramid crimes. With this, it can be concluded that the pyramid scheme is a crime of high lesivity to the society and sophisticated in the sense of being highly difficult to detect it as well as prevent it.