El lavado de dinero (también conocido como lavado de capitales, lavado de activos, blanqueo de capitales u operaciones con recursos de procedencia ilícita o legitimación de capitales) es una operación que consiste en hacer que los fondos o activos obtenidos a través de actividades ilícitas aparezcan como el fruto de actividades legales y circulen sin problema en el sistema financiero. Para que exista blanqueo de capitales, es precisa la previa comisión de un acto delictivo de tipo grave, y la obtención de unos beneficios ilegales que quieren ser introducidos en los mercados financieros u otros sectores económicos. El blanqueo de capitales es un delito autónomo que no requiere de una condena judicial previa por la comisión de la actividad delictiva por la que se originaron los fondos que se

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Money laundering is the process of transforming the proceeds of crime and corruption into ostensibly legitimate assets. In a number of legal and regulatory systems, however, the term money laundering has become conflated with other forms of financial and business crime, and is sometimes used more generally to include misuse of the financial system (involving things such as securities, digital currencies, credit cards, and traditional currency), including terrorism financing and evasion of international sanctions. Most anti-money laundering laws openly conflate money laundering (which is concerned with source of funds) with terrorism financing (which is concerned with destination of funds) when regulating the financial system. Some countries define money laundering as obfuscating sources of money, either intentionally or by merely using financial systems or services that do not identify or track sources or destinations. Other countries define money laundering to include money from activity that would have been a crime in that country, even if it was legal where the actual conduct occurred. This broad brush of applying money laundering to incidental, extraterritorial or simply privacy-seeking behaviors has led some to label it financial thoughtcrime.

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