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Money laundering and predicate offenses: models of criminological and legal relationships

Georgy Rusanov (Department of Law, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy)
Yury Pudovochkin (Department of Criminal Law, Russian State University of Justice, Moscow, Russia)

Journal of Money Laundering Control

ISSN: 1368-5201

Article publication date: 2 January 2018

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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

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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