CONTENTS:

THE SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCHING THE PROBLEM OF MONEY LAUNDERING

CHAPTER 1
MONEY LAUNDERING – A GLOBAL TRANS-NATIONAL PROBLEM

CHAPTER 2
THE CONCEPT AND THE DEFINITION OF MONEY LAUNDERING

CHAPTER 3
TRENDS AND TECHNIQUES OF MONEY LAUNDERING

CHAPTER 4
INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION ON COMBATING THE MONEY LAUNDERING PHENOMENON

CHAPTER 5
MEASURES FOR EFFICIENT REPRESSION AND PREVENTION OF MONEY LAUNDERING

A. MEASURES OF MONEY LAUNDERING REPRESSION

B. MEASURES FOR MONEY LAUNDERING PREVENTION

CHAPTER 6
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REPRESSION AND PREVENTION OF MONEY LAUNDERING IN THE OTHER COUNTRIES

CHAPTER 7
THE SITUATION WITH MONEY LAUNDERING IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

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Summary

The phenomenon of money laundering is usually described as concealed, sophisticated and profitable criminal activity and the persons involved in committing it are considered to be highly intelligent and always one step before the services dealing with its detection. The nature of this phenomenon which often appears in the field of economy and high technology was sufficient challenge for going into its aetiology and phenomenology. The challenge for a practitioner and researcher in the area of the dark figures of crime was additionally incited by the knowing about the connection between money laundering and organised crime. Their common goal is to enable further criminal activities threatening the financial system and the legal economies and with the help of corruption to threaten entire states. The period of the last few years was a period of intensive international activities in this area. The process of ratification of the most important international documents was accelerated and new ones were adopted that additionally strengthened the obligations, and the states were working very hard on the implementation of the international standards in the national legislations. This made this whole topic very dynamic for a researcher that had a mission to monitor it and analyse it.
A special challenge was was to follow and actively to participate in the activities for strengthening the possibilities for fighting organised crime in the countries in transition and new European countries. Additional chalenge for the international community was to link the anti money laundering measures with the measures against terorist financing. After the many years of expert writing, discussions and comparative elaborations of the results from the prevention of money laundering in a society in transition it seems that that the proper treatment of this problem is still at the very start. This book will contribute for the further familiarisation with this phenomenon and increasing of the awareness among the decision makers and the politicians for undertaking real steps towards building societies with complete rule of law and healthy economy. Still the publishing of this book does not mean rounding up these topics. This book will only be an incentive and challenge for further research by the practitioners as well as for many theses by the future generations of researchers, postgraduates and PhD candidates.