Crime organizado e lavagem de dinheiro: inter-relação e mecanismos de combate e repressão.

Abstract

Organized crime is the new face of crime, true criminal enterprise that for the practice of money laundering, legitimizes the dirty money obtained in the criminal practices, investing it in their own criminal organizations in order to increase their economic power and intimidation, greatly hindering the performance of States in its struggle and repression. On this track, through this work, it was aimed to analyze the interrelation between organized crime and money laundering, as well as mechanisms for combating and prosecuting the crime of laundering. To this end, it was used some methodological procedures. The method of deductive approach was used, the method of procedure was the monograph and the indirect documentation was applied as research technique. Before the study undertaken, it was noted that organized crime presents a well structure of internal administrative organization, practice a wide variety of criminal activity, accumulated large economic power, shows a high capacity for corruption and intimidation, and causes severe social damage, so the combat and repression have emerged as urgent. However, the state is still not adequately outfitted to confront organized crime and should concentrate its efforts in combating and prosecuting money laundering, given that the money laundered is the maintainer of criminal organizations. This time, it was found that the fight and prosecution against of money laundering crime are also ways of combating and prosecuting organized crime.