Money laundering and laundering offence property value originating from crime

Although money laundering, which is described as the technique of legalization of earning, is historically quite ancient, its conceptual emergence dates back to the late 20th century. Money laundering is defined as the process of integrating and legalizing the income that comes from the development of organized crime and which is obtained from many criminals traditionally being drug traffickers and nowadays as a organize crime. In order for the laundering act to be carried out, first and foremost, it must be a premise crime and income from this crime. If the income obtained becomes a legitimate identity through the concealment or alteration of the source, using various laundering techniques, the laundering process will be completed. In this work, we will first touch on the laundering process in all its aspects and then discuss the developments in combating laundering in national and international areas. The 'Crime of Laundering the Assets Derived from Crime', which constitutes the predominant part of this work and which will be examined in all aspects in the second section, is regulated in Article 282 of the Turkish Criminal Code numbered 5237.