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It argues that cyberlaundering enables proceeds of organised crime to be “washed” online and can support terrorist financing, strengthening links to money laundering, cyber crime, fraud, and corruption. The text highlights limited prior research and identifies a legal gap, motivating the development of an anti-cyberlaundering (ACL) legal regime.","Chapter 1  \nIntroduction, Money Laundering and Cyber crime  \n1.1 Epistemological Basis of Study  \nThe subject of cyberlaundering has constantly been evaded.1 This is mainly because it is a hybrid subject which merges aspects of information technology, computer science and law. Its evasiveness has caused it to be very mystifying. As long as the internet remains an integral part of our lives, it will continuously be exploited for laundering proceeds of crime, unless possible means of regulation and control are devised. Very little is known about cyberlaundering because very little research has been done on it. This is the main impetus for this research.  \nThe broader field of money laundering is one that is also fraught with regulatory challenges, with very strong links to organised crime and terrorism, which are also colossal problems in the world today,2 and which current legal infrastructures are battling to contain. These issues are seamlessly interrelated, and with cyberlaundering, the link is only fortified further, with the internet being used frequently to‘wash’the proceeds of organised crime and to fund terrorist activities. By effectively  \n1 The topic has constantly been avoided simply because little is known about it. For instance, in July 2009, the House of Lords’ European Union Select Committee issued a report titled ‘Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism’available at \u003C[http://www.parliament.uk/business/commit](http://www.parliament.uk/business/commit)tees/committee-archives/> [Accessed on 11 February 2013], yet nowhere does it deal with the issue of cyberlaundering, in spite of its relatedness to terrorist financing. Also, as evidenced in this study, present international laws against money laundering and cyber crime have not been reviewed in light of the currency of the dilemma. For money laundering, examples of such laws are the UN Convention against the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances—‘The Vienna Convention’—adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 December 1988, and came into force on 1 November 1990; the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Resolution 55/25—‘The Palermo Convention’—adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 15 November 2000, and came into force on 29 September 2003, and the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism—‘The Warsaw Convention’—adopted by the Council of Europe on 16 May 2005, and came into force on 1 December 2009. Also, for cyber crime, an example is the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cyber crime adopted by the Council of Europe on 8 November 2001 and which came into force on 1 July 2004.  \n2 Cf discussion in paragraphs 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 below.  \nD. A. Leslie, Legal Principles for Combatting Cyberlaundering, Law, 1 Governance and Technology Series 19, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06416-1_ 1,© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014  \n2 1 Introduction, Money Laundering and Cyber crime  \ncombating the problem of cyberlaundering, one is ripping out one of the main roots of these problems, thus helping to subdue other related vices such as money laundering, cyber crime, fraud and corruption.  \nThe subject of cyberlaundering has reached a point where it can no longer be swept under the rug and alas, its current state is not anywhere nears its peak. Although it is often said that the law is dynamic, in truth, the same can be said of crime. As proposed in this study,3 there is a desperate need for the ‘adaptation’of relevant policies, laws and regulations to deal effectively with the menace of cyberlaundering, failing which the enactment of new laws becomes imperative. This study therefore explores the problematic aspects of cyberlaundering comprehensively. 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