Delito de lavado de dinero en Chile y Argentina. Breve análisis de derecho comparado

The author investigates the regulations concerning money laundering in Chile and Argentina since its beginnings. He analyses the development and current law in both countries according to the doctrine in vogue and its relation with the organized crime and the extradition. He works with the questions of the legislative methodology and the problems of amplitude of the types of criminal offenses. The author concludes that, in spite of the different ways followed by the legislations of Chile and Argentina, the problems of amplitude are familiar to both. The solutions to these problems of amplitude doesn’t depend on adopting an imported legislative model but to make a restrictive interpretation of criminal law. Both the Chilean legislation and the Argentinian punish essentially the same crimes, except the negligent money laundering that is penalized in Chile and not penalized in Argentina.