Abstract:
Money laundering is one of the most dangerous crimes nowadays. Through
these processes, the proceeds of organized crime are re-injected into the veins and
arteries of the official national economies through various methods, this latter based
mainly on the banking system. Aimed at forming a legitimate interface to conceal
illegal activities, where the success of this process leads to the ease of movement of
these funds in the community without being subjected to confiscation, so that
criminals escape from punishment.
In view of the severe situation threatening these operations, the international
community has become increasingly concerned about them, particularly in the face of
the ever-increasing number of security issues, which have become the converge of the
attention of all, from public opinion, governments, organizations and international
community. The need to combat this scourge, which is fundamentally incompatible
with humanity , moral ethics, and religious concepts, as the common denominator of
all forms and patterns of crimes, activities and operations that are forbidden and
doubtful, of which there is considerable income, has a negative impact on the local
and global economy. And the existence of the international community as a whole,
which made the latter attach great importance to this phenomenon, through the
enactment of many international treaties, conventions and instruments as well as the
development of many international bodies and mechanisms, all of which fall within
the strategies adopted by the international community to tighten the diphtheria To
criminal organizations, to prohibit the latter from benefiting from the proceeds of its
criminal activities and thereby avoid their repercussions.
