Emília Merlini GiulianiStrafbarkeit der Geldwäsche in Brasilien und in Deutschland

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Money laundering is a highly complex phenomenon with a marked international dimension. For this reason, over the past four decades it has become the focus of criminal law and criminal policy debate around the world. Within a relatively short period of time, the control and containment of money laundering has become the main focus of numerous domestic laws, international instruments, and scientific research. And despite the large number of academic works that deal with the problem of combating and preventing money laundering, there are still relevant aspects of this topic that have not yet been sufficiently deepened by legal literature. This book intends to bridge that gap by analyzing the criminal treatment of money laundering from a comparative criminal law perspective. With this in mind, the influence of international instruments on the legislative design of the German and Brazilian of the money laundering offense is addressed. The boundaries of the punishability of the respective money laundering offenses are examined in more detail and then compared with one another. In view of the finding that the Brazilian basic offense of money laundering has a significant delimitation problem with regard to the prohibited conducts, the book proposes and justifies an interpretation of that legal provision based on the German money laundering offense.