The specificity of assigning criminal responsibility for participation in customs crimes

Abstract

There is no doubt that the issue of criminal responsibility in the customs field is one of the issues of privacy as it is characterized by a set of rules by which the person responsible for customs crimes is determined, as the Algerian legislator took over their application to ensure a significant expansion of the circle of persons to whom this responsibility can be assigned, and this is evident in the Law No. 17-04 of February 16, 2017, amending and supplementing Law No. 07-79 of July 21, 1979, which includes the Customs Law, so that some of its texts contain exceptional provisions compared to the general principles of participation in which the legislator created an expanded criminal liability in these crimes. It is based on a set of legal presumptions against some people, even if they were not responsible for committing it.