Blanqueo de capitales o lavado de activos, en la nueva legislación penal ecuatoriana

Abstract

Money laundering is a crime that throughout history it has become one of the unlawful acts of greater relevance to the scope that generates is related to other crimes such as illegal drug-trafficking, terrorism, human trafficking and organized crime, it tries to give an appearance of lawfulness for the goods-money from the commission of the offense and insert of "legal" way to a country's financial system, directly affecting the economy of the same. In the case of Ecuador, there was a law that punished the laundering of assets the same that it was repealed by the Code currently Integral Professional Criminal, said crime was included within the rules of recent data, the same as in its articulated sets the criminalization and the way in which it should punish the tortuous of that illicit, since what is at least in the theory, it intends to eradicate the tortuous is the same with a law more severe that avoid and suppresses the commission of Money Laundering.