The Senate’s Department of Criminal Cases has summarized the Senate’s findings on money laundering issues.

The compilation systematizes the most significant findings of the Senate’s Department of Criminal Cases in rulings adopted between 2013 and October 2024.

The Senate’s findings are systematized according to elements of crime provided for in Section 195 of the Criminal Law. Objective and subjective features of crime are distinguished separately, attention is also paid to the subject of a criminal offense under consideration, the significance of the completion of a predicate offense, the manifestations of the objective side of the criminal offense, and its connection with the predicate offense.

Taking into account the importance of the legal issue, a separate chapter also discusses other issues related to the qualification of money laundering cases with regard to the selection of legal norms corresponding to criminality and criminal liability, taking into account the Criminal Law in force at the time and application thereof.

The compilation was prepared by Oskars Kulmanis, Legal research counsel to the Senate’s Department of Criminal Cases.

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Baiba Kataja, Communication Specialist of the Supreme Court

+371 67020365; e-mail: baiba.kataja@at.gov.lv