Abstract
Money Laundering Processes have increased in a notable way recently to form a huge body prompting many states to Confront those processes with all possible means. Starting From this point. The study attempts to shed lights on this phenomenon through studying the mutual effects between these processes and the hidden economy as they are unseparable. The signification of this research lies in analyzing the link between hidden economy and money laundering where the increament of one leads to the increament of the other. Hence when we deal with hidden economy we should recognize the place of its money laundering, and when we consider money laundering we should know how this participate in promoting hidden economy which in turn would aggravate the processes of money laundering. This research handles two aspects , the first is the concept of hidden economy and money laundering processes. In addition to viewing the relation between them ,as well as showing the status of hidden economy to the national economy , representing the theoritical aspect. The second aspect is the practical one dealing with the effect of the money laundering on the hidden economy , as well as the effect of the hidden economy on money laundering processes , then the impact of money laundering upon the public economy .
