This article reports on the issue of financial transactions related to the legalization (laundering) of income criminally obtained. It focuses on the nature and structure of such financial transactions, taking into account national peculiarities. The review of the basic peculiarities of the mentioned interactions has been carried out in terms of quantitative indices, the opinions on the reliability of their values, and also the reasons for their decrease have been given in the paper. The analysis of classification and the specific scheme of the specified operations in the Russian Federation were carried out. The basic models (by the number of phases) used for operation performing on legalization (laundering) of incomes received by a criminal way were defined. The characteristic of phases with the account of the application of the concept of management of the movement of incoming and outgoing financial (money) flows was made. The research analyzes significant problems in organizing the system of counter illicit financial flows. The analysis of regional peculiarities of money laundering operations, based on the peculiarities of organization of economic relations, peculiarities of financial operations inside the territory of subjects, the economic activity of population and financial organizations registered in the Khabarovsk region was carried out.