All Federal indictable offences are money laundering predicate offences.

It appears that the predicate for this action is not valid.

Predicate crimes are crimes whose proceeds are laundered (see International Monetary Fund, Financial System Abuse ).

(c) Establishing the offence of trafficking in persons as a predicate offence for money laundering offences

The difficulty of including tax evasion as a predicate offence for money laundering illustrates this problem.

Bribery of foreign officials should be included among the predicate offences in legislation against money laundering.

(b) The offence is a predicate offence of money laundering under the law of the requesting Party.

For example, in defining predicate offences of money laundering, some States enumerate them in a list attached to a piece of legislation, whereas some States take a so called threshold approach, defining the predicate offences as crimes punishable in a certain way.

(a) Each State Party shall seek to apply paragraph 1 of this article to the widest range of predicate offences

(a) Each State Party shall seek to apply paragraph 1 of this article to the widest range of predicate offences

Trafficking offences are also included as predicate offences in the Prohibition on Money Laundering Law, 5760 2000 ( Prohibition on Money Laundering Law ).

The Unit participates in multi agency task forces set up to investigate money laundering and predicate crimes, including the financing of terrorism.

Pakistan has criminalized the financing of terrorism, terrorist acts and terrorist organizations and designated such offences as predicate offence for money laundering.

(b) Each State Party shall include as predicate offences at a minimum a comprehensive range of criminal offences established in accordance with this Convention

(b) It may be provided that the offences set forth in that paragraph do not apply to the persons who committed the predicate offence

Some representatives provided information on new legislation against money laundering that had been introduced in their countries, including measures that expanded the scope of predicate offences.

Some representatives provided information on new legislation against money laundering that had been introduced in their countries, including measures that expanded the scope of predicate offences.

Jamaica stated that its legislation did not include a specific offence of laundering of proceeds of crime, as described in article 6, paragraph 1 included as predicate offences all serious crime, as defined in article 2, and the offences established in accordance with articles 5, 8 and 23 and did not include a provision to establish a list of specific predicate offences.

Romania stated that its legislation did not include a specific offence of laundering of proceeds of crime, as described in article 6, paragraph 1 included as predicate offences all serious crime, as defined in article 2, and the offences established in accordance with articles 5, 8 and 23 and did not include a provision to establish a list of specific predicate offences.

The predicate offences included premeditated murder, illicit drug trafficking, arms trafficking and the use or the threat of use of force to acquire money or property illegally.

In any event, the Organized Crime Convention and United Nations Convention against Corruption call upon States parties to include a broad range of serious crimes as predicate offences.

Article 185 bis of the Bolivian Penal Code explicitly indicated that predicate offences for money laundering included offences committed by government officials in the exercise of their duties.

Speakers highlighted several areas of concern, including the significantly increased incidence of fraud using telephones, e mail and the Internet growing theft and misuse of identities a substantial increase in the number and scope of predicate offences generating proceeds and the emergence of groups (which might not be directly associated with those carrying out the predicate offences) specializing in the laundering of funds derived from criminal activity.

13. States should be required to assume powers to freeze and confiscate proceeds and instrumentalities of appropriate serious crimes, regardless of whether the predicate offence is organized or transnational.

(b) Each State Party shall include as predicate offences all serious crime as defined in article 2 of this Convention and the offences established in accordance with articles 5, 8 and 23 of this Convention. In the case of States Parties whose legislation sets out a list of specific predicate offences, they shall, at a minimum, include in such list a comprehensive range of offences associated with organized criminal groups

B) As far as financing of terrorism is concerned, it is a predicate offence for Money Laundering in terms of Anti Terrorism Act, 1997 (Section 11K read with Section 2z(aa) ).

(h) Predicate offence shall mean any offence as a result of which proceeds have been generated that may become the subject of an offence as defined in article 6 of this Convention

(h) Predicate offence shall mean any offence as a result of which proceeds have been generated that may become the subject of an offence as defined in article 23 of this Convention

(b) Predicate offence means any crime or offence as a result of which proceeds were generated that may become the subject of an offence as defined in article 4 of this Convention.

The law concerned laundering and predicate offences, thus allowing the prosecution of those who assisted in laundering the proceeds derived from one or more of the criminal acts indicated by the new law.

The case is divided into two parts, the first depicting breach of trust and international fraud, which include various issues commonly found in economic crime and could be regarded as predicate offences of money laundering.

In addition, the law will make the financing of terrorism a predicate offence for money laundering extend the banking and financial laws to alternative money transfer systems and, regulate charitable, religious, and other non governmental organizations.

In order to strengthen the existing legal framework and especially to include the other serious offences as predicate for the offence of money laundering, the draft Anti Money Laundering Bill 2005 is presently in the process of enactment.

(a) (i) The conversion or transfer of property, knowing that such property is the proceeds of crime, for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property or of helping any person who is involved in the commission of the predicate offence to evade the legal consequences of his or her action

(a) (i) The conversion or transfer of property, knowing that such property is the proceeds of crime, for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property or of helping any person who is involved in the commission of the predicate offence to evade the legal consequences of his or her action

Some speakers identified gaps in the domestic legislative coverage of such offences, referring for instance to the insufficient scope of predicate offences to money laundering or to gaps in the constitutive elements of the offence of obstruction of justice.

Further to the recommendation concerning the inclusion of corruption and bribery among the predicate offences foreseen by legislation against money laundering, criminal legislation should be strengthened by making the laundering of proceeds from corruption and bribery a criminal offence.

(e) If required by fundamental principles of the domestic law of a State Party, it may be provided that the offences set forth in paragraph 1 of this article do not apply to the persons who committed the predicate offence

(e) If required by fundamental principles of the domestic law of a State Party, it may be provided that the offences set forth in paragraph 1 of this article do not apply to the persons who committed the predicate offence.

A) Money Laundering is an offence vis à vis three predicate offences i.e., Drug trafficking, Corruption Corrupt Practices and Financing of Terrorism in respective statutes. i.e., Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 1997 National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 and Anti Terrorism Act, 1997.

Furthermore, in a few jurisdictions money laundering has been defined as an autonomous crime independent of the origin of the assets, that is, it is no longer necessary to obtain a guilty verdict for a predicate offence before prosecuting a person for money laundering.

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.

Bahrain stated that its legislation included a specific offence of laundering of proceeds of crime, as described in article 6, paragraph 1, included a provision to establish a list of specific predicate offences and did not include in the list a comprehensive range of offences associated with organized criminal groups.

(e) In all international forums, there is general agreement that the scope for the imposition of penalties for money laundering in connection with drug trafficking is unsatisfactory. The convention should provide that, in principle, any other serious offence, in addition to drug related offences, can be considered a predicate offence for money laundering

In addition to formally criminalising terrorism and making it a predicate crime under the anti money laundering regime, the law will provide for the seizure and confiscation of terrorist assets reporting of suspicious transactions relating to terrorist financing and strengthening of existing mechanisms for cooperation in this regard between The Bahamas and other countries.