-The governing body of the Court of Cassation, headed by Judge Mahmoud Al-Batoush and with the membership of judges Muhammad Al-Khashashneh, Dr. Fawzi Al-Nahar, Ibrahim Abu Shama and Qasim Al-Dogmi, decided to reject the cassation filed by a convicted person in a money laundering case whose value amounted to half a million dinars, and upheld the ruling issued by the Amman Criminal Court and upheld by the Court of Appeal, which It stipulates that he and another person be placed in temporary labor for a period of 21 years, and that they must pay a sum of one million dinars.

The court said that when applying the legal texts to the case, it found that the money they obtained from the crime of forged use and illegally seized the money of two people of non-Jordanian nationality and transferred this money to an unknown place that no one knows and refused to disclose it in order to prevent its discovery or access and conceal disguising its source and merging it with his own funds.

The court pointed out that the elements and elements of the crime of money laundering ascribed to those convicted in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Law No. 20 of 2021 and its amendments, and in the context of Article 30 of the same law, are complete and require that they be criminalized with that penalty that was issued by the court of first and second instance.

And she confirmed that the Court of Appeal applied the legal texts properly and the decision came in accordance with the established reality and met the correctness of the law, and it took full notice of the facts of the case and answered the reasons for the appeal in a consistent and detailed manner in the case file and concluded that the actions of the convicts gathered all the elements and elements of the crimes for which they were convicted. Consequently, she reached a correct conclusion and her decision was based on its causes and reasons that necessitate it in a way that fulfills the conditions and elements stipulated in Article 237 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which requires refuting the reasons and issuing the final decision to reject the cassation submitted and uphold the judgment issued against them, which is the subject of the cassation.

The details of the case indicate that the two convicts were charged with a money laundering felony within the limits of Article 3 of the Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Law No. 20 of 2021 and pursuant to Article 30 of the same law, and that the two complainants opened a deposit account with a Jordanian bank in 2011 and traveled abroad and fed it during the period. The previous deposit amounted to 732,921 dollars, and it was frozen by the bank for the purpose of updating the account. The complainant went to the bank and inquired about the account, and was surprised by the bank employee that the account balance was only about 27 thousand dollars, and she told him that an amount of approximately 696 thousand dollars had been transferred to a court. He was provided with the case number.

It turned out that one of the convicts, in agreement with the second convict, presented a bill of exchange for execution with the court, which included that one of the complainants owed the mother of one of the convicts in the case an amount of 1.188 million dinars, and the request was due. The subscriber to the complainants at a value of 493 thousand and 388 dinars, including fees, and the execution judge agreed to transfer the reserved amount to the account of the executive case. Indeed, the bank transferred it, and the amount was received by the lawyer, who handed it over to Muhammad after deducting her fees.

The Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission investigated the case, presented its witnesses, and transferred it to the Amman Criminal Court, which issued its verdict, then moved to appeal and upheld the decision issued by the Criminal Court. Money laundering and terrorist financing No. (20) for the year (2021) has already been met, and the matter that requires them to be criminalized with the crime of money laundering.

Article 3 of the Anti-Money Laundering Law considers a person a money launderer if he is aware that the money is the proceeds of a predicate crime and if he transfers or transfers money for the purpose of disguising its transfer and concealing its illegal source.

-(Petra)