Money laundering and predicate offenses: models of criminological and legal relationships
Abstract
Purpose
Purpose of the study is to show the relationships of money laundering with predicate offenses.
Design/methodology/approach
Each of these groups of crimes was investigated against the following criteria: statistical data on convictions and the proportion of prisoners in the general structure of a criminal record, links to organized crime, methods of money laundering and proportion of laundered money received from a particular predicate offense in the total amount of money laundered.
Findings
Based on the study of Russian legislation and practice peculiarities of this relationship, the features of the following relationships were revealed: relationship between widespread and relatively easy-to-control crimes against the property and drug trafficking and high latent and more difficult-to-control corruption and economic crimes.
Originality/value
As a result, it was concluded that there is a potential connection between the public danger of money laundering, the degree of crime organization and efficiency of the process of money laundering depending on the type of a predicate offense.
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Citation
Rusanov, G. and Pudovochkin, Y. (2018), "Money laundering and predicate offenses: models of criminological and legal relationships", Journal of Money Laundering Control, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 22-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMLC-12-2016-0048
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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