O crime de corrupção de lavagem de dinheiro e seus impactos econômicos no Brasil

Abstract

The laundering process is used to transform something dirty into clean. When it comes to money laundering, the objective is to transform profits obtained from criminal activities into clean resources to make it difficult to trace and identify the illegal origin of the money. This study uses qualitative research and a bibliographic review to analyze the corruption crime of money laundering and its economic impacts in Brazil. It is concluded that money laundering is characterized by the introduction of illegal assets, rights, or values into the economy, representing an increase in the agent's wealth. Therefore, crimes such as tax evasion are not included in the preceding offenses, as they do not result in an increase in assets with the aggregation of new values.