(i) The adoption of measures to identify, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of crime

Laundering of proceeds of other serious crimes considered a criminal offence

The work of the intergovernmental expert group was welcomed as an example of the effort of the international community to confiscate the proceeds of crime and put them to proper use.

Curriculum on International Cooperation in Criminal Matters Extradition, Mutual Legal Assistance and Proceeds of Crime, 2002.

Presented papers on international criminal law, the International Criminal Court, international penal law conventions, terrorism, corruption and proceeds of crime to various international forums and conferences

Money laundering is generally understood to mean the processing of criminal proceeds to conceal or disguise their illegal origin.

Nevertheless, the challenge remains to effectively implement the laws and show real progress in seizing criminal proceeds and prosecuting money launderers.

(b) To provide factual, concrete help to competent authorities that may contribute to depriving organized criminal groups of their resources or of the proceeds of crime.

The idea was principally to study how to implement the criminalization provisions relating to laundering the proceeds of crime, corruption and participation in organized criminal gangs.

States in which it is a criminal offence to launder the proceeds of drug trafficking, by region (those responding in both the second and the third reporting period)

Special rules on proceeds

Manage the delivery of and deliver technical assistance to States on implementing legislation for the conventions, and international cooperation in criminal matters including restraint and confiscation of proceeds of crime

The impartial forces have strengthened their deployment in order to prevent incursions and to confiscate individual arms.

The vast majority of these proceeds are retained by criminal organizations in rich countries and laundered by banks in global financial centers, with just a small amount returning to Latin America.

Laundering of proceeds of crime

Proceeds derived from the offence

Proceeds from revenue producing activities

The Israeli authorities were also continuing to confiscate land and expand the settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan.

The Palestinians had solemnly undertaken to actively fight terrorism, put an end to incitement and confiscate illegal weapons.

Since economic crimes, including money laundering, are committed for the purpose of obtaining profit, tracing, freezing, seizing and confiscating the proceeds of crime are the most effective measures against those criminal activities.

Information was also provided on the confiscation of assets and proceeds of crime and the sharing of such proceeds.

Control of the proceeds of crime

In West and Central Africa, the collapse of institutional frameworks is often linked to the laundering of the proceeds of drug trafficking for the procurement of arms by rebel groups and criminal organizations.

(e) Preventing and combating the transfer of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention and recovering such proceeds

Reference was made to provisions of national penal codes and other domestic legislation establishing as criminal offences participation in an organized criminal group, laundering of the proceeds of crime, corruption and obstruction of justice, and explanations were provided of the specific elements of such offences in domestic provisions.

Reference was made to provisions of national penal codes and other domestic legislation establishing as criminal offences participation in an organized criminal group, laundering of the proceeds of crime, corruption and obstruction of justice, and explanations were provided of the specific elements of such offences in domestic provisions.

One tool highlighted by several speakers as particularly effective in that regard was a comprehensive regime for the freezing and confiscation of the proceeds of criminal activities, employing conviction and non conviction based approaches.

Prostitution is not a criminal offence in the Niger, but the law has provided for a legal mechanism to penalize any person who encourages prostitution or benefits from the proceeds of a woman's prostitution.

The soldiers then take half the proceeds.

Construction proceeds on several major industrial projects.

The court shall confiscate the object, which was the direct object of commission of an offence provided for in this section.

(a) Proceeds of crime derived from offences covered by this Convention or property the value of which corresponds to that of such proceeds

(a) The assignor has received the proceeds under instructions from the assignee to hold the proceeds for the benefit of the assignee and

If the answer is Yes , please specify. Has your country adopted measures to reduce existing or future opportunities for organized criminal groups to participate in lawful markets with proceeds of crime (art. 31, para. 2), including

Several speakers called for a renewed focus on the prevention and control of money laundering and the confiscation of criminal proceeds, with a view to impeding criminals from disguising and benefiting from their ill gotten gains.

Criminalization of the laundering of proceeds of crime

Disposal of confiscated proceeds of crime or property

Accounting for proceeds from the sale of property

Instead, the initial decision was to confiscate just under 3 billion from accounts containing less than 100,000 the cutoff for deposit insurance.

5. Income or other benefits derived from proceeds of crime, from property into which proceeds of crime have been transformed or converted or from property with which proceeds of crime have been intermingled shall also be liable to the measures referred to in this article, in the same manner and to the same extent as proceeds of crime.

Most States replying to the questionnaires (88 per cent) indicated that laundering of proceeds derived from drug trafficking was a criminal offence in their jurisdictions, in accordance with the provisions of the 1988 Convention (see figure I).

In Southern Africa, criminal networks are engaged in laundering the proceeds of crime, in particular from drug trafficking, trafficking in firearms, stolen vehicles and endangered species, as well as trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants.

(a) Proceeds of crime derived from offences established in accordance with this Convention or property the value of which corresponds to that of such proceeds

Members of the police confiscate an activist's flag. Police said only greeting streamers were permitted. Photo from Facebook page of Southern Tagalog Exposure.

Prevention and detection of transfers of proceeds of crime