Legitimizing Earnings Derived from Drug Smuggling in the National, Domestic, or Internal Law and International Documents

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 (Assistant Professor at Islamic Azad University of Gonabad)

2 (Assistant Professor at Islamic Azad University of Mashhad)

Abstract

Legitimizing earnings derived from drug smuggling are formed in order to disguise or conceal the identity of illegally obtained proceeds and integrate these legitimized funds into the illegal activities. It has been considered (regarded) in international law but not being paid attention by the national or domestic law. What this note states is determining the factors forming the legitimization of funds obtained from crime in general concept and crime of legitimatizing the proceeds of drugs in the specific concept and careful consideration of this concept, features, and goals and effects. It has been suggested that appended to the rules relating to drugs the legislature considers the criminalization of the legitimization of funds originated from selling, buying, manufacturing and transiting of drugs. At the end, the authors will present their views to codify a rule which is all-inclusive and all-exclusive about the crime of the legitimization of funds originated from drugs.
 

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