M. Abel Souto* EXPANDING THE CRIME OF MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST GLOBAL TERRORISM1 Эта работа была выполнена при финансовой поддержке проекта DER2015-67422-R Министерства испанской экономики и конкурентоспособности Abstract. <...> The Spanish legislature added, with organic laws 5/2010, 1/2015 and 2/2015, three additional reforms to the already long list of modifications on money laundering that undermine the legal certainty and the consideration of criminal law as ultima ratio. <...> Organic law 2/2015, also of March 30, introduces a new form of money laundering in article 576 of the Spanish Criminal Code, with a terrorist purpose, which distorts the legally protected interest by criminalization of money laundering, because it is not required that the goods used for terrorism are of illegal origin. <...> How long will our Criminal Code wait to punish money laundering from mere administrative infractions or civil wrongs? <...> Both human rights and the principles of legal certainty and proportionality prohibit criminalization, by connivance with terrorism, normal behaviour in a democratic society, because the reason of state can not prevail over the reason of law. <...> La expansiуn penal del blanqueo de dinero. <...> P. 1—183. © Abel Souto M., 2016 * Abel Souto Miguel, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain miguel.abel@usc.es № 12 (121) декабрь 2016 LEX RUSSICA 125 LEX RUSSICA I made a unattended call to the legislature to moderate its intervention in money laundering3 , which has preferred to add, with the organic laws 5/2010, 1/2015 and 2/2015, three additional reforms to the already long list of modifications on money laundering4 , that undermine the legal certainty and the consideration of criminal law as ultima ratio. <...> To illustrate this point, a single euro from a previous petty offense of fraud, now a minor offense according to article 249 of the Spanish Criminal Code, becomes a material object capable of money laundering and preparatory acts of such fraud, before unpunished regarding petty offenses, are punished in accordance article 269. <...> Moreover, the petty offences, now minor offenses, can not be included in the previous facts to the crime of money laundering because it limits the effectiveness of the norm10 social costs11 <...>