Financial control in preventing and combating money laundering

Money laundering is a complex activity both in terms of law, but especially for the economy, being the main source of financing terrorist activity worldwide. The economic condition prior to the phenomenon of money laundering is the existence of an underground economy that is difficult to measure and control since it takes place at the extent of the law, having the characteristic of covert activities, illegal, fraudulent and private that massively escape the national accounts contributions. The phenomenon of money laundering as a process of concealing the origin of the revenues obtained from criminal economic activities involves using the legal institutions of a functioning market economy to conduct coating operations (transfers, transport, exchange, combined illegal goods with legitimate goods) to hide the illicit origin of dirty money, so the source of illicit income from illegal activities to be hidden. Thus revenues are given an apparent origin of legal activities. In an effort to coordinate the global fight against money laundering, a series of supervisory and control bodies of the activities of legal institutions in market economies have been created. This process is integrated in all national bodies in each country.