in order to meet domestic needs and compliance with international standards as well as considering the necessity of reviewing the law of anti-money laundering and eliminating some relevant barriers including lack of proportionate punishment to the crime, lack of dissuasiveness and effectiveness of the punishment, impossibility of prosecuting money laundering as a stand-alone offence, lack of appropriate procedures for the confiscation of assets and other items, the bill of "amendments to the anti-money laundering act", was proposed by the ministry of economic affairs and finance and was approved by the cabinet at the session on 08/11/2017. now, it is presented to the parliament to take its relevant legislative procedures.