FINANCING OF TERRORISM - LOOKING AT MONEY LAUNDERING AND ORGANIZED CRIME AS MAIN FORMS OF FINANCING

Abstract

Terrorist financing is the collection and distribution of funds with the intention of using them to commit terrorist acts. To finance their activities, terrorists often use dirty money. Money laundering is the process of concealing money or property that has been obtained illegally or criminally. When the property is acquired by committing a crime, the executor looks for a way to use the acquired money without attracting the attention of the competent authorities.

The system for combating money laundering and terrorist financing is one of the subsystems in the unified system of public and national security, includes a set of actions and measures within the organization of physical and technical protection and security protection, active and passive, with the aim of preventing various criminal and other forms of endangering national security in the sphere of money laundering and the fight against terrorism at the national, regional and international level.