Anti-Money Laundering: International Law and Practice of Foreign Countries

This article the author analyzes the issues of responsibility for the legalization of income derived from criminal activity (money-laundering) in international legal acts and legislation of foreign countries. The author studied this crime through the prism of Uzbek law. The legalization of proceeds derived from criminal activities is a criminal socially dangerous act representing imparting a lawful type to the origin of money or other property by transferring or exchanging it, non-disclosure or concealment of the true nature, source, location, method disposition, movement, rights with respect to money or other property or its accessories if money or other assets derived from criminal activity.