洗钱犯罪是指隐瞒或者掩饰犯罪收益的来源和性质,使其外表或形式合法化的一种特殊犯罪。近年来,随着世界经济全球化、金融一体化进程的逐渐加快,黑社会性质的组织犯罪、毒品犯罪、贪污贿赂犯罪等不断增多,洗钱犯罪也日益严重。因此,对洗钱行为进行正确的认识、对洗钱犯罪做出正确的法律界定,具有十分重要的理论和现实意义。 Money laundering crime refers to concealing or disguising the origin and nature of the proceeds of crime so that its appearance or form is a special type of crime. In recent years, with the globalization of the world economy and the gradual acceleration of the process of financial integration, syndicate organized crimes, drug crimes, corruption and bribery crimes have been on the rise, and money laundering crimes have become increasingly serious. Therefore, to correctly understand the money-laundering behavior and make a correct legal definition of the crime of money-laundering has very important theoretical and practical significance.