The International Trend About The Range Of Mone Laundering And The Inspiration To China

With the further strengthening of the global economy in the world, the transnational money laundering is becoming more and more typical. What’s more, the related financial problems are becoming more and more complicated with the change and development of science and technology year by year. Money laundering, one of the results of economic globalization, has been increasingly regarded as a sort of intelligent crime carrying huge harm against the world’s laws, economy and politics. The upstream crimes of money laundering, however, have the international characters naturally, for example, they usually happen in more than two different countries.With the expeditious development of the economic globalization, capital internationalization, information and technology, the crimes such as smuggling, drug transportation, tax invasion, corruption and bribery, financial crimes and so on have all been happening all over the world. Money laundering crime is becoming more and more rampantly in the world and relates to the above-mentioned crimes closely. It has not only destroyed the social honesty basis, but also threatened the legal stability, economic security and social safety. The serious damage of money laundering has attracted the high attention of many countries and governments. All the countries should unit together, coordinate and cooperate effectively, fight against the money laundry crime more forcefully, which have been unanimously consented internationally and are also the important basis to develop legal, political and economic cooperation for these countries. From the Prohibition Convention of Illegal Transportation of Anesthetic Meditation and Mental Medicine in 1998 on, the international society has broken through a lot on the part of making rules and regulations related to controlling money laundering and relative crimes. The relative conventions of United Nations, such as the Prohibition Convention of Illegal Transportation of Anesthetic Meditation and Mental Medicine, the Convention of United Nations’ Fighting against International Organizational Crimes, the Convention of United Nations’ Prevention from Supporting the Terrorism, the United Nations’ Anti-corruption Convention and international standard documents such as Forty Suggestions and Nine Special Suggestions, etc. The relative regulations of every international convention, international legal documents and every domestic law have shown the trend of enlarging the range of money laundering of upstream crimes.Through researching the international conventions and relative rules and documents,which guide the range of upstream crimes of money laundering and fight against the money laundering practices internationally, on the basis of different opinions of these problems and researching results in our country, in connection with the legal practices about this problem, the author is to discuss whether the range of upstream crimes of money laundering and trend should be enlarged and to what extend we should enlarge it.