Financial Monitoring Secret: the Nature, the Protection Principles, the Specificity Of Disclosure

Abstract

Ensuring information security in the emerging information society is the extremely urgent task. In general, under the protection of information refers to the set of methods and tools that ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of the information in terms of impact on her threats to natural or artificial nature, implementation of which may cause damage to the owners and users of the information. The trends in the recent years show that the publicity (openness) information is under the constant supervision of the relevant public institutions and the public.Sometimes, such publicity is a contemporary, but in some cases may be a factor that unbalance the national security. At this side,the relationship of specific importance for the protection of information which is circulating in the system of prevention and counteraction to legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime, terrorist financing or financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Summarizing the above, it should be noted that in the national legislation of Ukraine is clearly regulated the rules on terminological meaning and disclosure procedure of the financial monitoring secret. In turn, these standards are guaranteed protection of financial monitoring secret, which, in particular, the principles of professional secrecy; the optimal security principle; the principle of state guarantee; the principle of international security; the principle of completeness and reciprocity principle. The status of the institution of financial monitoring secret are meeting of international standards in combating money laundering, and the secrecy is guaranteed by the state.