Money laundering will have a serious negative impact on society. First, it will threaten the stability of the economic system. Second, it will breed more illegal and criminal activities. Third, it will damage the reputation of financial institutions. Fourth, it will endanger the national economic security. Money laundering is to legalize some illegally obtained funds through certain methods and turnover means in order to escape the punishment of the law and threaten the stability of the economic system. In some developing countries, money laundering is rampant, even exceeding the government's economic budget. In this case, the flow of a large amount of funds will give the government the illusion of good economic development, thus affecting the government to make correct economic decisions.

When the decision-making operation is completely different from the expectation, it will seriously affect the economic development trend and even get out of control. At the same time, some money launderers deliberately choose some industries in countries with poor anti-money laundering ability. When the capital circulation task is completed, a large amount of funds will be withdrawn immediately, which will have a huge impact on the industry. Money laundering breeds more illegal and criminal acts and becomes the companion of some serious illegal and criminal acts. Criminals legalize the illegal gains obtained from illegal and criminal activities through money laundering, which is actually illegal possession. After obtaining funds, criminals use these black money to carry out more and more illegal and criminal activities, which has a very serious negative impact on economic and social stability.

Damage to the reputation of financial institutions Many money laundering activities are carried out through legal financial institutions, which operate normal business and serve customers without knowing it. The transfer of a large amount of funds will lead to the payment crisis of financial institutions in the long run, which will do some harm to the development of the whole financial institutions and the financial order. Money laundering endangers national economic security, and it will also lead to the privatization of public funds and the outflow of national funds, thus reducing the actual tax revenue and foreign exchange income of the country, affecting its currency exchange rate and seriously endangering national economic security.

Money laundering is an act of legalizing illegal income, which mainly refers to legalizing illegal income and its income through various means to conceal its source and nature. So what are the consequences of helping others launder money? Regarding the criminal responsibility of money laundering, according to the first paragraph of Article 19 1 of the Criminal Law, those who constitute money laundering shall be confiscated? Upstream crime? The proceeds of crime and the gains therefrom shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and a fine of not less than 5% but not more than 20% of the money laundering amount shall be imposed; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined not less than five percent but not more than twenty percent of the money laundering amount.