Abstract:
The most recent development that the world has witnessed since the last half of the twentieth century in the field of communications, many variables, including social, economic and political variables, and the economies of countries overlapped with each other; Because countries have become linked to global markets, so it was said that the development that took place in the knowledge revolution, and communications have two aspects:
One is positive, the second is negative, and the positive side is progress, which has contributed to human development, as well as facilitating financial transactions. The negative, it is represented in the increase in the number of financial crimes, including the crime in question, which is the crime of money laundering, and the reasons that led to the increase in the percentage of committing this crime are:
1-Easy transfer of illicit capital between countries;
2- The presence of countries that have not signed the international conventions, which are considered a safe haven for the perpetrators of the money laundering crime.
Considering that the crime of money laundering is a serious crime that is considered a transnational organized crime; Since it is one of the dangerous phenomena that greatly affects the economy and societies of many countries of the world, the Egyptian legislator, who was a forerunner in enacting laws dealing with combating money laundering crimes, took precedence; Where he issued Law No. (80) of 2002 promulgating the Anti-Money Laundering Law, as amended by Law No. (78) of 2003.