Factors driving the growth of the practice and the phenomenon of money laundering in Iraq

	Factors driving the growth of the practice and the phenomenon of money laundering in Iraq
magazine of college Administration&Economics for economic &administration & financial studies
Article 1, Volume 242, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1-24
Abstract
Abstract The concept of money laundering expands at the present time, due to a number of motives and international variables ( political and economic ) as well as technological development and global integration. Despite the fact that this phenomenon originated within the framework of the internal borders of the state of national and practiced in the geographical area becomes of convenience encircle and eliminate them, but the change in the world and the rule of waves of civilization, making this phenomenon crosses national borders and geographic become a phenomenon of translational border. Money Laundering means a group of financial and banking activities to legitimize criminal activities that achieve significant financial returns, so it becomes necessary to add to confer legitimacy on those financial returns, called the settlement of dirty money in some cases. The aim of the confer legitimacy on those funds is to allow use with ease , and is therefore a haven for criminals who have the money difficult to deal with for plentiful, and historically the process of money laundering were adjacent to the activities of the drug trade. The efforts of the international fight against money laundering was included in anti-drug efforts, and even that United Nations efforts to launder money received under the agreements on combating drug trafficking and psychotropic substances.

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