The main factors that determine money or other property legalization (laundering)
Mission: money laundering has become a priority issue at both the national and international levels in recent years. This is explained by the fact that the very procedure of money laundering is characteristic of most forms of organized crime, which refracts the process of economic decisions, undermines the activities of financial institutions, exacerbates social problems, and contributes to corruption. Theoretical and applied basics of using criminal law measures to counteract the legalization (laundering) of money or other property are analyzed and some recommendations for improving the criminal legislation, its implementation and the system of measures to prevent this type of crime are made. Methodology includes the use of general scientific methods of knowledge - logical and historical ones. The study also used special methods of cognition of socio-legal reality: formal-logical, comparative-legal methods, synthesis, analysis, etc. Conclusions. In this paper, the criminal-legal and criminological characteristics of crimes in the field of legalization (laundering) of money or other property acquired by criminal means are revealed in a new way; the author's characteristic of the causal complex of this crime is presented. The determinants of legalization (laundering) of money or other property are identified: socio-economic; organizational and managerial; legislative insecurity of legal entrepreneurship; inconsistency of the norms of various branches of law in the field of countering the legalization (laundering) of money or other property. Scientific and practical significance. The research results fill in the gaps in the system of theoretical foundations for combating crimes in the field of legalization (laundering) of money or other property by criminal legal and criminological means in the new conditions of Russian society functioning. These results make a certain contribution to the development of the science of criminal law and criminology.