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Money laundering is a crime of transnational nature which responds to needs at the national level and the international community, of which we are part, to combat everything that may affect the economic order. In such a way that States design legal, political, social and economic strategies, allow us to combat this form of crime, situational and structural that mail the foundations of Panamanian society. In addition, we have that this is a criminal figure who requires the existence of a crime or previous evidence, whose illicit result required to be converted into lawful. I.e., that all kinds of assets, securities or goods obtained carrying out illicit product, that have been previously defined as such in the penal norm, are converted into lawful through its use in commercial and banking activities that meet with the legally established parameters.
