Money laundering is attributed to dishonest behaviours commited to show the proceeds of crimes legalized and to protect them of sizure and confiscation.
This phenomenon having so many degerous effects to society, has attracted the attention of criminologists, especially after expansion of transnational and international organized crimes.
The existing roles and laws in Iranian criminal law are not enough to combat money laundering. Consequently it is necessary to Iranian law make to pass proper laws to criminalize this behaviour and confiscate the proceeds laundered, as well as to punish the criminals. Simultaneous it is necessary for Iranian lawenforcers to have multilateral regional and international efforts to combat it.
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