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Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism: Legal Distinctions

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Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building

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In recent years, an important development at the international level has been observed: measures taken in combating organized crime — such as the criminalisation of money laundering, the creation of regulations to improve the detection of profits, and their seizure as well as confiscation or forfeiture — represent instruments that should now also be implemented to some extent to combat terrorism. This deals primarily with the control over the flow of money and access to assets that at least appear to be suspicious.1

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  1. Criminal Procedure and Criminology, University of St. Gallen, UK

    Marianne Hilf (chair for Criminal Law)

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  1. University of Graz, Austria

    Wolfgang Benedek (Professor of International law) (Professor of International law)

  2. University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organization) (Professor of International Organization)

  3. University of Belgrade Law School, Serbia

    Vojin Dimitrijević

  4. University of Tilburg, Netherlands

    Petrus van Duyne (Professor of Empirical Penal Science) (Professor of Empirical Penal Science)

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Hilf, M. (2010). Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism: Legal Distinctions. In: Benedek, W., Daase, C., Dimitrijević, V., van Duyne, P. (eds) Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281479_7

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