Finally, economic and financial offences encompass a wide range of crimes.

Strengthening existing offences and creating new offences

The Public Prosecution Service has national prosecutors who are experts in terrorism, terrorist financing, money laundering and other financial offences.

It was noted, however, that conceptualizing economic and financial crime might be difficult due to the many possible offences involved.

All Federal indictable offences are money laundering predicate offences.

Terrorist offences

Estonia proposed to add the words quot or offences connected with political offences quot after the words quot political offences quot .

The Independent Commission against Corruption and the Financial Intelligence Unit had been established to combat such offences and to enforce the relevant laws.

Organized criminal groups are engaged in significant economic and financial crimes through, for example, offences related to credit card fraud, identity theft and counterfeiting.

Legislation has expanded gradually, and there is no doubt that it will continue to broaden in scope to cover more offences, including financial crimes.

29. We welcome the resolve of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering to extend criminalization of money laundering to other serious offences.

(e) Economic offences

Firearm incidents rose from 3 offences in 2002 to 11 offences in 2003.

45. The administering Power reported 1,002 minor offences (such as liquor offences, disorderly conduct, and firearms violations) and 858 arrests for minor offences in 1996, down from 1,659 offences and 1,555 arrests in 1995.

Several indictments filed during 2004 included organized crime offences as well as trafficking offences.

The existence of highly developed capital markets encourages certain offences such as insider offences.

Create new offences for

Australia reported that it also counted on a strong legislative regime to criminalize corrupt behaviours, including bribery and foreign bribery offences and money laundering offences in the Criminal Code Act of 1995 various offences for improperly dealing with public money under the Financial Management and Accountability Act of 1997 and provisions regulating the duties of directors in the Corporations Act of 2001.

1. The offences shall not be considered political offences for the purpose of the present Convention.

1. The offences shall be deemed to be included as extraditable offences in any extradition treaty between States Parties. The States Parties undertake to include the offences as extraditable offences in every future extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

The amended directive broadened the scope of predicate offences to money laundering beyond drug offences to other serious crimes and the obligations under the directive concerning customer identification, record keeping and reporting of suspicious transactions were extended to other activities and professions outside the financial sector.

Investigation of money laundering offences

New legislation on sexual offences

4.22 Xenophobic crimes and offences

II. PENALTIES FOR RACIST OFFENCES

It also provides that the offences under the Convention shall be considered by States parties as extraditable offences.

Greece reported that it had enacted legislation protecting women against a number of criminal offences, particularly sex offences.

The Penal Code combines the offences of procuring and pimping in one article, even though they are separate offences.

(b) To make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account the grave nature of these offences.

(b) To make those offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account the grave nature of those offences.

States parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

The Parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

The greater the efficiency of measures adopted by financial institutions, the greater the incentive for terrorists to use cash for moving the money used to carry out terrorist offences.

Under no circumstances may extradition be stipulated for political offences, even where common crimes are the result of such offences ,

Grave offences are premeditated offences punishable by deprivation of liberty for more than five years but not exceeding 10 years.

Especially grave offences are premeditated offences punishable by deprivation of liberty for more than 10 years or the death penalty.

Offences of this type have greatly increased in China over recent years, and children are easily enticed to commit offences.

This Act guarantees the protection of victims against many types of offences including sexual offences according to the Penal Code.

(a) To establish as criminal offences under its domestic law the offences set forth in article 2 of this Convention

States Parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be subsequently concluded between them.

The Contracting States undertake to include the offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

They should be permitted in all circumstances to defend clients charged with minor offences under the Law on Petty Offences.

43. On the particular issue of the use of faceless judges in dealing with terrorist related offences, and as indicated in his second report, the Special Rapporteur is seeking resources, both human and financial, to make an exhaustive survey worldwide of similar practices in procedures dealing with terrorist related offences.

The first is, as pointed out above, that legal definitions of the variety of offences that occur under the rubric of economic or financial crimes vary from country to country.

1. The offences mentioned in article 1 of the present Convention shall be deemed to be included as extraditable offences in any extradition treaty between the Contracting States. The Contracting States undertake to include the offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be concluded between them.