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

Date02 January 2018
Published date02 January 2018
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/JMLC-12-2016-0048
Pages22-32
AuthorGeorgy Rusanov,Yury Pudovochkin
Subject MatterAccounting & Finance,Financial risk/company failure,Financial compliance/regulation,Financial crime
Money laundering and predicate
oenses: models of criminological
and legal relationships
Georgy Rusanov
Department of Law, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, and
Yury Pudovochkin
Department of Criminal Law, Russian State University of Justice, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
Purpose Purpose ofthe study is to show the relationships of money laundering withpredicate offenses.
Design/methodology/approach Each of these groups of crimes was investigated against the
following criteria: statisticaldata on convictions and the proportion of prisoners in the generalstructure of a
criminal record, links to organizedcrime, methods of money laundering and proportion of launderedmoney
receivedfrom 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 followingrelationships were revealed: relationshipbetween widespread and relatively easy-to-
control crimes against the property and drug trafcking and high latent and more difcult-to-control
corruptionand economic crimes.
Originality/value As a result, it was concluded that there is a potential connectionbetween the public
danger of money laundering, the degree of crime organization and efciency of the process of money
launderingdepending on the type of a predicate offense.
Keywords Russia, Corruption, Fraud, Economic crime, Drug trafcking, Money laundering,
Crimes against property, Predicate crime
Paper type Research paper
Introduction
Modern studies of crime involve the use of methods of systemic analysis for its
comprehensive and in-depth analysis. Although systematic approach has become an iced
signof law, as per some Russian authors,its scientic potential has not been fully realized
yet. One of the important and promising approachesin this regard is a systemic analysis of
a crime as a whole, and its individual types, given the fact that the relationship between the
different areas of criminal activity is becoming more prominent and meaningful. This link
between the types of crime takes on the role of criminogenic factor in modern conditions.
Consequently, the preventive effect on these relationships allows to destroy the mechanism
of crime from the inside to reduce or minimize the impactof crime on society in general.
One of the most striking examples showing internal communications of crime is money
laundering. In the most generalterms, we can say that the relationship of money laundering
problem with other crimes is worthwhile to consider in two aspects: rst, in terms of
connection of the process of launderingwith offenses that served as a source of income, and
second, its connection withlaundering offenses, which are nanced by laundered money. In
this case, one can observe a certain crime cycle: prots obtained as a result of a crime are
laundered and launderedmoney is invested in the commission of other crimes.
JMLC
21,1
22
Journalof Money Laundering
Control
Vol.21 No. 1, 2018
pp. 22-32
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DOI 10.1108/JMLC-12-2016-0048
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