From their side of this unholy bargain the leaders of the nation state demand ownership of its citizens, body and soul. What is it but slavery, when leaders insist on the right to force young men into military uniforms and demand that they kill for the good of the state. The state must combat organized economic crime because every state must maintain that it, and only it, can steal from the citizen, whenever it wishes - they call it taxation. There is a very thin line between legitimizing and criminalizing the acquisition of wealth. It is only societal ritual, not right, that distinguishes between the two sides.
States are ruthless in their harrying of individual privacy.
Every prisoner serving a jail sentence for economic crimes is in reality a political prisoner - each sentence is merely an assertion of state power. For all economic crime is an attack against the expression of state power. Financial losses to business from economic crimes such as fraud are in reality a tiny fraction of those from state-inspired theft. In the past businesses themselves were unwilling partners in this state conspiracy, but now, as telecommunication technology has made businesses more international, as money is no longer the monopoly of the state, and as loyalty to the state becomes irrelevant, businessmen can now see a way out. But governments will not give up that easily, and will set out to criminalize perfectly legitimate trade under the expanding label of economic crime in order to keep control.