Prosecuting money laundering at the ICC: can it stop the funding of international criminal organisations?

Dirk van Leeuwen

Chapter 10 in Legal Responses to Transnational and International Crimes, 2017, pp 181-200 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter deals with the question whether money laundering as a criminal offence should be added to the catalogue of international crimes that the International Criminal Court (ICC) deals with. It has been suggested that including it would provide an effective tool to stop money flowing to criminal organisations in the business of committing international crimes and terrorism. The chapter concludes that it is, at this time, not fruitful to include the crime. Money laundering is not suited to stop money flows as it has the tendency to look back and examine whether there is a predicate crime, instead of looking forward and ask whether the purpose of the money is criminal in nature. Additionally, the current subject-matter jurisdiction of the Court provides for too small a catalogue of possible predicate crimes for money laundering and the Court has too few possibilities to execute search, seizure and confiscation measures. The possible prevention of positive jurisdiction conflicts also has not yielded a strong argument for inclusion of money laundering as an ICC-crime.

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Date: 2017
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