Brief reflections on the crime of self-laundering
The recent national law n. 186, issued on December 15, 2014, will almost certainly provoke a broad debate on its importance and consequences with regards the whole organizational structure of companies that will need to comply with it.
The law in question is the crime of self-laundering and it has been introduced in the Italian legal system thereby modifying the penal code.
Firstly, the law in question does not deal with offences such as murder, burglary or armed robbery in a direct way, but moreover it considers the financial resources which come from the illegal activities committed by company directors, managers and employees and for which the company has been sentenced by justice in matters of vicarious liability.
Secondly, this standard represents a step towards adopting, within corporate responsibility, a sort of punishment for the offence of tax fraud, which is not currently covered in the compliance regulations established in the updated legislative decree n. 231, on 8 June, 2001.
di Giuseppe Tondi
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