Money laundering in Serbian Criminal Law

Abstract

The topic of this work is considering a criminal offence of money laundering in our criminal legislation. The special focus is directed at the legal concept of the criminal offence of money laundering and the consistency of given solutions in the determined concept framework. Certain amount of attention is also paid to the previous form of this criminal offence in our legislation, having in mind that this topic is rarely to be found in professional literature in Serbia. Next, the criminal offence of money laundering is presented in detail as currently prescribed in the article 231 of Serbian Criminal Code, with taking into consideration various apprehensions and interpretations of its respective segments. Special attention is paid to the issue of concurrence of criminal offences of money laundering and the predicate offence, and it also deals with the issue of sentencing perpetrator out of negligence. Some proposals de lege ferenda enhancing the incrimination and more efficient practice are given here.