Criminalization of money laundering of proceeds from drug crimes (case study of police measures)

criminal investigation and purification of drug-related proceeds is one of the important tasks of the police in order to deal with drug criminals. By applying the knowledge of criminal investigation in this field, the mafia and drug networks can be deprived of their income. So that hitting the financial support of drug criminals will be even more effective than dealing with them with hardware and will result in less material cost and human casualties for the law enforcers; therefore, the purpose of this article is to investigate the optimal police measures to discover and prove the purification of drug proceeds.

This is an applied research that was conducted in the field and in a qualitative manner, and its data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 12 people related to the police who were purposefully selected, as well as the study of a number of relevant cases, and after Coding and categorization, the content of the data obtained from the interviews and files were done and the results were compared.

The data of this research showed that the police should take measures such as drug market elites, elites on methods of purifying drug proceeds, identifying drug criminals, identifying financial contacts and money laundering specialists, and finally collecting documents and studying evidence from numerous internal and external databases about drug criminals, contacts and experts in purifying drug proceeds, and to this The purpose is to educate and train the special officers and specialists of criminal detection and purification of drug proceeds.