الآثار الاقتصادية والاجتماعية لغسيل الأموال

Some may think that money laundering has positive effects in case it is considered in its concrete forms such as establishing investment companies, creating job opportunities and participating in solving the problem of unemployment. This can be answered through the fact that the illegitimacy of the income resulted from money laundering, which represents purchase power not resulted from a real economic activity, leads to negative effects on the national economy and contributes in creating inflation pressure that threatens the future of the economical and social development. Some advantages gained by using laundered money cannot justify or be equal with the enormity of the disadvantages resulted from it. On this bases, this paper deals with the economic and social effects resulted from the operations of money laundering.