In the aftermath of contemporary a number of leaks comparable to the Panama Papers, the Swiss leaks, the Lux

leaks, and the Bahama leaks, this ebook deals an attractive view at the underlying conflicting

interests that bog down the adoption of better laws to prevent cash laundering

by manner of the monetary system.

The valuable place of the booklet is that the declared targets underlying the criminalization of

money laundering haven't been fulfilled. The effectiveness of the anti-money laundering

regime in Germany is classified by means of reading the oblique results, collateral consequences,

and confident interpretations of the legislation in motion and of the legislation state of being inactive; decreasing the issue

to a query of symbolic effectiveness doesn't mirror the complexity of the problem. What is

demonstrated, is that the ambitions attributed to the regime have been too formidable, and lower

degree of effectiveness has be

en permitted in an effort to stability the inherent political, economic

and monetary conflicting interests.

Unlike different volumes targeting this factor, this booklet bargains with the implementation of the

legislation and the results thereof, and is essentially aimed toward criminal sociologists, sociology

of legislation researchers, legal legal professionals, criminologists with an curiosity in white collar crime and

political scientists learning measures opposed to illi

cit monetary flows and the concrete implementation

of anti-money laundering legislation. The booklet can be of curiosity to either international

policymakers and specialists in addition to their opposite numbers in Germany for example working

on enhancing the tools to struggle equipped crime and stop the financing of

terrorism via funds laundering.

The complexity of the anti-money laundering regime and all of the variables are exhaustively

and seriously reviewed within the overview, thereby supplying whole directions for future

legislative steps. The case examine in regards to the state of affairs in Germany maximizes readers’ insights

into concrete results of the implementation of foreign anti-money laundering standards

at a countrywide point, and the critiques of pros operating within the box and of specialists on the

law-making approach also are illuminating. additionally, the e-book equips non-German speakers

with the knowledge had to take care of the large German criminal scholarly creation on

article 261 of the German felony code and the present inner political debate at the matter.

Verena Zoppei is a Fellow Researcher on the overseas protection department of the German

Institute for overseas and safeguard Affairs in Berlin.