Abstract
The paper examines the scientists’ approaches to the evaluation of money laundering. Attention is drawn to the macroeconomic results of such an analysis. The research on the scope of money laundering and its impact on the country’s economy is reviewed. Relevant literature and selected techniques have been highlighted and are widely available in the world. The focus is on discussing the macroeconomic implications of money laundering and on finding methods for evaluating the various scales and conclusions reached by various scholars on the scope and flows of money laundering.
 An authors’ approach to the analysis of the phenomenon of money laundering is proposed based on the study of the links between the level of money laundering with the level of vulnerability of economic sectors and the spread of other negative socio-economic phenomena. Using unique empirical data obtained as a result of an expert survey in the field of money laundering, conducted a statistical analysis and test of the statistical hypothesis regarding the presence of interconnections and to determine the essential dependence of money laundering level on the selected indicators’ subgroups of macroeconomic nature for analysis based on Pearson and Kendall’s Taw correlation coefficients.
 The conclusions on the correlation between the level of money laundering in Ukraine and macroeconomic processes in Ukraine are substantiated: shadowing of economic relations, optimization of tax burden at the initiative of business entities and «prosperity» of money laundering due to strong corruption ties in this sphere.
 The grounds for determining the priorities of further state policy in the sphere of anti-money laundering have been formed, for the national financial monitoring of relevant benchmarks of increased risk of financial transactions in specific sectors of the economy and possible further methodological use of sectoral analysis (with wider coverage of the national economic sectors) money laundering risks.
Highlights
Money laundering is a matter of global concern as it becomes a crucial link in the search for criminal funds, especially organized crime
The economic growth of modern society is inextricably linked with the prevention of various threats that increase during the reform of the economic system. These are, first of all, such complex and dangerous for our state socio-economic phenomena as the shadow economy, organized crime, which permeates the system of economic relations, corruption at all levels of government, the «flight» of capital abroad in the presence of a shortage of investment resources, and the like
Ukraine is different in nature, structure and content of the shadow economy, the origin of dirty money from Colombia, where it is not necessary to hide criminal money outside the country, since the financial sector is not the main place for money laundering through closed oligopoly and restricted penetration of banking services [10], the situation with regard to the low effectiveness of counteraction to money laundering crimes is extremely similar, with a generally respectable background of formal compliance with international standards [12]
Summary
Money laundering is a matter of global concern as it becomes a crucial link in the search for criminal funds, especially organized crime. The economic growth of modern society is inextricably linked with the prevention of various threats that increase during the reform of the economic system These are, first of all, such complex and dangerous for our state socio-economic phenomena as the shadow economy (especially its criminal component), organized crime, which permeates the system of economic relations, corruption at all levels of government, the «flight» of capital abroad in the presence of a shortage of investment resources, and the like. Ukraine is different in nature, structure and content of the shadow economy, the origin of dirty money from Colombia, where it is not necessary to hide criminal money outside the country, since the financial sector is not the main place for money laundering through closed oligopoly and restricted penetration of banking services [10], the situation with regard to the low effectiveness of counteraction to money laundering crimes is extremely similar, with a generally respectable background of formal compliance with international standards [12]. Respondents were measured on each of the indicators on a four-point ordinal scale, with the lowest score characterizing the zero level and the highest scoring high (Table 1)
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