Cooperação penal internacional no combate ao crime de lavagem de dinheiro

Abstract

Money laundering has expanded to the point of becoming a global problem. Its consequences have drawn attention in several parts of the world, causing mainly concerns the damages which carries. To the facilities brought about by globalization have made criminals expand their practices to the point of a single State does not have more means to be sufficient to curb and prevent his actions. The crime of "money laundering" is a sociological problem, but your old criminalization is booked in relation to other and expansion of possibilities of penalty was an achievement that came with the passage of time. In the face of proportions arising from conduct criminal it is necessary to deal with the existing national and mechanics, if supra nationally for your fight. Consideration shall be given to the essentiality of improve the means of investigation in order to prevent criminal agents go unpunished, this improvement from the international penal cooperation plan between Nations. Such an instrument has demonstrated efficiency in asset recovery and legal crime, charging that the impunity and represents a necessary response to society. Nevertheless, owing to point out that the existence of international bodies to prevent and combat the crime in question is an important channel of interaction between States, and possibility a level cooperation, seeking the common good and prevalence of human rights. In this panorama, this paper will address the means necessary for the success of international criminal cooperation in the specific case of the crime of money laundering, seconding the measures that the State can use for effective cooperation and decisive. To this end, will make use of the hermeneutical and legal method, since this organizes the guidelines, principles and values needed in the epistemological development, as well as facilitates the application of the techniques. Furthermore, regarding the methodological procedures, using the interpretative technique.