Economic crime permeates almost all economic branches in the Republic of Croatia and the world in various and ingenious forms. According to official statistics, economic crime in the Republic of Croatia accounts for only a tenth of the total crime, but its dark figure, which is unknown, is certainly much higher. Although according to the official data of the MUP, in the last 15 years, the number of detected criminal acts of economic crime in the Republic of Croatia has decreased and is now 26% lower, this has not had a significant impact on the perception of Croatian citizens about the level of corruption in the Republic of Croatia. The geographical dispersion of the number of detected criminal acts of economic crime in Croatia reveals that it is more present in counties with access to the sea - Istria, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Lika-Senj, Zadar, Šibenik-Knin, Split-Dalmatia and Dubrovnik-Neretva counties, in comparison to the national average. The average number of criminal offenses of economic crime per capita, which on the coast is almost 15% higher than the Croatian average, best reflects the level of the mentioned problem on the coast. The bad picture on the Croatian coast is even more pronounced if we compare the level of corruption - the number of detected corruption crimes per capita of residents of the coastal counties is 75% higher than the Croatian average. We encounter economic crime on the coast in the fishing sector, criminal acts against the environment (illegal exploitation of minerals and illegal construction), and due to the high fiscal burden in the Republic of Croatia, various forms of tax evasion are common.