"Siga o dinheiro": análise da inteligência financeira no combate à lavagem de dinheiro e às organizações criminosas

Abstract

Given the need for criminal organizations to mask the huge profits made through the practice of illicit acts, and money laundering is the means used for these assets to return to the market and be used as if they were lawful, the present study intends to Analyze the role of financial intelligence operations monitoring system in order to understand the relevance of this mechanism in combating money laundering and therefore to criminal organizations. The financial intelligence system was introduced in the country with the advent of Law nº. 9.613/98, which created the United of Financial Activity Control (COAF) to this end in response to international cooperation agreements to combat money laundering. Thus, for the analysis proposed in this paper, it is necessary to understand the evolution and performance of criminal organizations, as well as the efforts made to criminalize and combat money laundering, and also what financial intelligence and its repercussion on the investigation and criminal prosecution of these offenses, from the analysis of their operation and consequences of their activity. Then, a research based on qualitative and quantitative analysis, exploratory, bibliographic and legislative, based on the doctrinal review on the subject, as well as examination of the content of the normative regime and statistical data of the activity of financial intelligence and case law analysis. Given this, it is found that financial intelligence enables the tracking of illicit capital and the identification of criminals, which requires the realization that it directly impacts the fight against money laundering and criminal organizations.