The Empirical Study Of The Relationship Between Money-laundering And Predicate Offenses On Public Officials

At present, the phenomenon of money-laundering about public officials is growing, not only in quantity increased year by year, the amount of money involved also increased substantially. They put on the veneer of legality for the illegal proceeds of predicate offenses through various channels, and then they can spend and enjoy the proceeds of crime in public. In most cases, it is found that the loss of major funding is irreversible after criminals transfer funds through money-laundering. Corruption of public officials'money-laundering crimes not only contributes to the occurrence of predicate offenses, but also seriously undermines the integrity of the building of the system. It seriously endangered the social and economic order.In recent years, the public officer of money-laundering crimes has caused our government and society attention. Therefore, the study of the relationship between public officials'money-laundering and the predicate offenses has important research value to effectively combat public officials'money-laundering.This paper from the empirical perspective studies the relationship between the public officials'money-laundering and predicate offenses. The main content summarized as follows:( 1 ) Based on pre-survey public officials'criminal records, the questionnaire is designed.From an empirical perspective, this paper studies the criminal cases of illegal public officials, and extracts the key points. Based on pre-survey, the paper designs the illegal public officials'criminal information table. The table surveys 140 public officials'criminal records which are from 1996-2009 in China.(2)Construct the Logistic model of the relations between the public officials money- laundering and predicate offenses.In this paper, based on survey design, it builds Logistic regression model. It also studies the relationship between the public officials'money-laundering and predicate offenses, as well as the main factors affecting money-laundering. It is found that the funds obtained from three predicate offences (corruption, bribery and illegal absorbing public deposits) are more easily transferred by the way of the money-laundering; while crimes of embezzlement, huge unidentified property and dividing the state-owned assets have less correlativity with the money-laundering. Furthermore, the five factors such as the amount of the illegally income, the transfer cost, etc may determine whether money-laundering occurred or not; on the other hand, gender, age and education level have less correlation with money-laundering.( 3 ) Construct structural equation model on public officials of money-laundering .Through building the structural equation model, this paper studies the relationship between money-laundering and predicate offenses on public officials, as well as the major factors that affect the money-laundering. It is found that personal factors and environmental factors have positive correlation with the transfer of funds means, but other factors have negative correlation. Predicate offenses have positive correlation.