Financing terrorism in terms of sources and penalty in Iraqi legislation

Abstract

Terrorism financing activities are among the most important threats facing the security and safety of members of society in all its forms, and increases their danger by adopting a transnational organized crime pattern. Planning, managing and implementing it is no longer within the territory of one country, but rather its lines are woven across multiple countries for implementation in the country targeted by the crime. The great technological progress, especially in the field of communications, has led to the development of crime in general and the emergence of new patterns of it at all the national, regional and global levels. The suffering of the countries of the world has increased from terrorist financing activities and the danger of these criminal activities has increased to a degree that has exceeded the capabilities of all countries to the confrontation, including the major countries, and the efforts of the international community to prevent the financing of terrorism in its various aspects are being made at the global and regional levels, either at the regional level, or at the internal level, most criminal legislation considered the act of financing an independent crime and a special punishment was imposed for it regardless of the original crime, and Iraq came at the forefront of countries that suffered from terrorism and violent crimes, and for that to undermine stability and sow sedition and sectarian fighting for this, the Iraqi state must confront terrorism in general and terrorist financing activities in particular, reduce its danger and punish as for the perpetrators, the AntiTerrorism Law No. 13 of 2005/Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Law No. 39 of 2015 was issued in implementation of Article 22 of the Money Laundering Law now as mentioned above.