RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR MONEY LAUNDERING: NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The article analyzes the general concept of money laundering. The author draws attention to the fact that the legalization of criminal proceeds is a serious threat to national security, since it is a necessary condition for the generation and functioning of organized crime in various spheres of society. Money laundering should be understood as giving the perpetrators a legal form of the origin of funds or other property obtained as a result of criminal activity, by transferring, transforming or exchanging, as well as concealing the true nature, source, location, method of disposal, movement, true rights in relation to money or other property or its belongings.