A Study on Criminalization of "Money Laundering"

Abstract

Money laundering refers to a set of operations on illegitimate property, such as drugs, theft, fraud, etc., to make such property look legitimate and to conceal its illegitimate origin. In money laundering operation, as a financial criminal activity, revenues generated by illegal activities are in a way mixed with revenue from legal activities so that they cannot be identified and differentiated from one another. In this research, it was tried to review the history of money laundering legislation and review the three elements of money laundering.

Keywords

• money laundering
• elements of crime
• criminal activity