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Money laundering
  • Offences

    • • Conversion/transfer of proceeds of crime
  • Keywords

    • • Proceeds of crime
Participation in an organized criminal group
    Corruption
       PART XII.2
       Section 462.31

      UNTOC Articles

      • Organized Crime Convention

      • Article 6: Criminalization of the laundering of proceeds of crime
      • Article 11: Prosecution, adjudication and sanctions
      • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

      • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

      • Firearms Protocol

         

        UNCAC article

        • Article 23. Laundering of proceeds of crime - Subparagraph 1 (a) (i) of article 23
         

        Original Text

        Laundering proceeds of crime
        462.31
         (1) Every one commits an offence who uses, transfers the possession of, sends or delivers to any person or place, transports, transmits, alters, disposes of or otherwise deals with, in any manner and by any means, any property or any proceeds of any property with intent to conceal or convert that property or those proceeds, knowing or believing that all or a part of that property or of those proceeds was obtained or derived directly or indirectly as a result of

        (a) the commission in Canada of a designated offence; or

        (b) an act or omission anywhere that, if it had occurred in Canada, would have constituted a designated offence.

        Punishment
        (2) Every one who commits an offence under subsection (1)

        (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years; or

        (b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

        Exception
        (3) A peace officer or a person acting under the direction of a peace officer is not guilty of an offence under subsection (1) if the peace officer or person does any of the things mentioned in that subsection for the purposes of an investigation or otherwise in the execution of the peace officer’s duties.