Problems of evaluation of legalization (laundering) cash and other property in the context of countering the institutionalization of the shadow economy in Russia

Abstract

Purpose: based on the analysis of foreign experience, opinions of leading Rus-sian scientists and established legal practice, the article suggests a number of measures to improve the effectiveness of detecting the facts of legalization (laundering) of money or other property acquired by a person (other persons) as a result of committing a crime (by criminal means). Discussion: the shadow sector, in one scale or another, exists in the economy of any state. There are various methods for assessing its structure and volume, each state seeks to resist the development and strengthening of the shadow component of its economic system. Results: the continuous development of institutions of responsibility for the legalization (laundering) of money or other property obtained by criminal means is one of the most important areas of countering the crimi-nalization of the national economic system of Russia, an effective obstacle to the infusion of criminally accumulated resources into the country's economy and a significant factor in countering the shadow the economy as a whole.