Juris Juriss

Courses: Criminal law. General part; Criminal law. A special part; Topical issues of qualification of criminal offences

Consultation times available here.

Research interests:

Criminal law (financial and economic crimes, crimes involving narcotic and psychotropic substances), forensics (methodology of investigations in the field of financial and economic crimes), criminal procedure law (actions with criminally acquired property). 

Professional experience and achievements:

• Head prosecutor - Anti-Money Laundering Coordination Division of the Criminal Justice Department of the General Prosecutor's Office (01/01/2021 – Currently)
• Prosecutor - Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Criminal Law Department of the General Prosecutor's Office (2009 – 31/12/2020)
• Prosecutor - Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Other Sectors (2000 – 2009)
• Prosecutor - Prosecutor's Office for the Investigation of Financial and Economic Crimes (1999 – 2000)
• Awarded the Cross of Recognition III class.

Publications:

• Juriss J. Confiscation of criminally obtained property and proof of money laundering in stand alone cases. Jurista Vārds, NO. 46/47 (1312/1313), 2023.
• Juriss J. Collective of authors. Working with virtual currency. Manual. 2022.
• Juriss J. Collective of authors. It is not enough that it seems suspicious - it is necessary to prove that it is criminal. Diena, 2020, pp. 4-5
• Reviewer Juriss J. Collective of authors. Commentaries on the Criminal Procedure Law. Part A. Latvijas vēstnesis, 2019.
• Juriss J., and a collective of other authors. Latvian legal system. Turība University of Business, 2017.