Money laundering crimes are mainly governed in Kuwait by Kuwait Law No. 106/2013 Concerning the Fight Against Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, which replaced Kuwait Law No. 35/2002 Law Regarding Anti-Money Laundering Operations.

Article 2 of Kuwait Law No. 106/2013 states that anyone who knows money has been derived from a crime, will be deemed to have committed the crime of money laundering, and who intentionally does the following:

• Transferring, movement, or exchanging it for the purpose of concealing or disguising the unlawful source of those funds or helping any person involved in committing the original offence from which the funds were obtained, to evade the legal consequences of their act.

• Concealment or disguise of the true nature of the funds, source, location, method of disposition, movement, ownership, or rights related to them.

• Acquiring, possessing or using money.