Money laundering is called money laundering as the process of converting large amounts of illegally obtained money into clean and tradable money in public activities. Money laundering is also known as a method used to hide and cover up the sources through which money is earned, through the Unlawful means of investment, and then its profits are invested in legitimate and legal activities.

Money laundering is a crime punishable by law; Because of its negative impact on the private economy of countries; This crime allows criminals to dispose of the laundered money and employ it in a range of public activities by concealing its illegal sources, and also helps them to expand their illegal business and earn more of this money.

There is a set of tools used by money laundering criminals, which range from simple and traditional methods to the use of technological means that help them in the money laundering process, and among the most famous money laundering tools are the following:
- Illicit trade: one of the most famous traditional money laundering tools, which uses all commercial channels in order to facilitate the money laundering process. This trade includes illegal business such as drugs, unlicensed weapons, and medicines that do not conform to specifications, and others.

- The use of a group of financial institutions: These institutions contribute to facilitating money laundering operations by providing legal cover within the business and financial activities that they carry out, and thus contribute to the conversion of illegal funds into laundered funds.
- Real estate leasing: It depends on the use of illegal capital in a group of real estate investment projects, which buy real estate and then rent it to individuals and institutions, and thus the illegal money is replaced with legal money.

- Loans: Which is one of the most used methods of money laundering, as loans linked to an interest value are approved, and this results in providing illegal money as loan amounts, and then collecting a percentage of the interest on its value after a certain period of time has passed.
- Internet technology: It is a modern means of money laundering, which relies on transferring illegal funds to any other financial investments such as stocks and bonds, through the use of websites that act as financial intermediaries, which facilitates the process of investing unlaundered funds.

In addition, money laundering depends on a number of stages, namely:
Deposit: It is the first stage of money laundering, through which money laundering criminals get rid of their money by transferring it to bank deposits in banks and investment financial institutions, which contributes to replacing it with clean and legal money.
- Pooling: It is the method that money laundering criminals rely on to collect it within a group of financial projects and investments that guarantee them adequate coverage of the illegal operations they carry out, as aggregation helps in providing camouflage for money laundering operations.
- Merger: the last stage of money laundering, through which illegal funds are mixed with legal funds, and thus the funds are mixed together, and it is difficult to identify them.

Money laundering also results in a number of negative effects that affect society and the economy, namely:
Economic results: It is a set of results that lead to the emergence of a negative impact on the national economy of each country, due to the role of money laundering in the decline in the use of sound capital and its replacement with illegal funds that some criminals seek to spread within the economic market, which leads to a decline in economic development and investments. Financial, which negatively affects the value of local currencies compared to foreign currencies.

Political results: the results that are related to the threat to the political stability of countries due to the use of laundered money to finance illegal and criminal operations that may lead to the spread of a security and national threat to a country, and political corruption may spread through the use of money laundering and its dissemination within the government sector in countries.
- Social consequences: they are the consequences that affect the entire societal environment, as money laundering criminals seek to spread all kinds of trade that provide the best assistance to them in order to easily launder their money, so they are keen to spread drugs among the youth group as one of the means that helps increase money Laundered, resulting in a significant destruction of the infrastructure of the community.

Many countries of the world seek to combat money laundering by all available and possible ways and means, so most of these countries have established specialized criminal units for this, and then issued a special law for the penalties for money laundering, and it is called the Anti-Money Laundering Law, which depends on the follow-up of this crime. By imposing control over movable money with the aim of exporting it, depositing it and investing it, or manipulating its value, or converting it into other forms and forms, or following any other process that results in concealing the source from which those funds were acquired, and it is classified as a crime punishable by law.