Criminal liability of legal persons in money laundering capital

Abstract

Money laundering is an action carried out by some people legal entities, in order to illegally increase their capital and profits. action with the which deteriorates the economic conditions of the active society of the republic, causing imbalances in the commercial accounts owned by the productive apparatus; said action brings consequence to those who incur in them. That is why the present The purpose of this study is to establish the criminal responsibility of the legal persons in money laundering. Inserting the investigation, in the positivist paradigm, presenting a quantitative approach; with a mode of documentary study, constituting a type of descriptive level research. For its execution, the data collection technique used was the documentary review; being its instruments the signing, the notebook and the data classification. As data analysis techniques, the analysis was applied of content. Having as a result, that legal persons are responsible of the action of money laundering; therefore, its board must assume the criminal actions that derive from that action.