Money laundering practices have emerged as a criminal phenomenon globally with the phenomena of scientific and technological development, which have led to increased interaction between countries, which has facilitated the transfer of capital between them, and given the opportunity for organized crime gangs to carry out their activities by collecting money through illegal means and subsequent work on expression to appear as if it were from a legitimate source, under conditions in which there is no legal regulation that faces the risks of development What increases the risks of the crime of money laundering in our present era is that it has transcended national borders and moved into a broader and broader field at the international level thanks to technical means, globalization and modern technology, which has prompted the international community as a whole to confront this crime with various mechanisms, with the conviction that it cannot be eliminated, but in order to combat it and limit its negative effects that may cross the past and present and extend to the future, which are not limited to local crime Rather, it has extended to international organized crime. In contrast, the crime of money laundering currently represents a complex challenge to global legal and economic systems, and requires the adoption of a special punitive policy that takes into account its complex nature and broad economic and social impacts in order to overcome and combat punitive challenges.
Alia Mahmoud (2025) studied this question.