English abstract
The research endeavored to discover the social factors leading to the occurrence of money laundering in the Omani Community, and to try to identify the reasons of this crime, by the discovery of the sources of the illegal money used in the money laundering crime, and to identify the factors leading to the commitment of this crime, and to try to know it's social effect on the community, and finally, to know the functional obstacles on the government level or on the private sector in the confrontation of the money laundering phenomenon in the Omani Society.
To realize these objectives, The researcher had recoursed to dividing the research community into two basic divisions: the first is the employees undertaking the roles of the confrontation of the money laundering crime in the government (civil and security) organizations and used for the collection of data from research community, by the application of the audience reference as a means of data collection from (14) items.
The second part of the research community is: the employees undertaking the roles of the confrontation of the money laundering crime in the establishments of the banking private sector. The researcher adopted the social survey by the intentional sample. That cover (191) individual of Muscat Governorate banks.
The researcher realized a number of results which ensure the impact of the social problems and the struggle on the senior official jobs, while the poverty and the need on some of the members of the community, which force them to human profiteering (prostitution and adultery) and weapons trading to realize financial profits, to employ it in the securities market, and to practice second hand cars market, and the commercial activities to escape legal pursuit, and to hide the features of the original crime, exploiting some legal gaps.
The research offered some suggestions to activate the objective role of the family and the community and to consolidate the role of formal control institutions, and to ensure the domination of the law and the control on the supervisory sides in confrontation of money laundering activities in the Omani Community.
