The Expansion of Criminalizing Money Laundering in Saudi Legislation: A Comparative Study.

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Law - Mansoura University

Abstract

The world is undergoing rapid economic transformations, remarkable progress, and accelerated technological development, which have helped overcome spatial and temporal boundaries and highlighted serious security challenges. New criminal methods have emerged that rely on the use of modern technological means, exploiting funds obtained from various criminal phenomena and processing them in innovative ways that did not exist before. The danger of these phenomena increases when they are organized, relying on a specific structure and active communication that overcomes known traditional barriers. This organization has given rise to organized crime, which depends on the distribution of roles, the determination of tasks and objectives, based on a structure that relies on power, planning, and the interconnection between crimes, making it difficult to track and combat.

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