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    Money laundering
    • Offences

      • • Conversion/transfer of proceeds of crime
    • Keywords

      • • Proceeds of crime
     PART XIII
     Article 465

    UNTOC Articles

    • Organized Crime Convention

    • Article 5: Criminalization of participation in an organized criminal group
    • Article 6: Criminalization of the laundering of proceeds of crime
    • Article 8: Criminalization of corruption
    • Article 15: Jurisdiction
    • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

    • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

    • Firearms Protocol

       

      UNCAC article

      • Article 23. Laundering of proceeds of crime - Subparagraph 1 (b) (ii) of article 23
      • Article 27. Participation and attempt - Paragraph 3 of article 27
      • Article 42. Jurisdiction - Subparagraph 2 (c) of article 42
       

      Original Text

      465. Conspiracy

      (1) Except where otherwise expressly provided by law, the following provisions ap- ply in respect of conspiracy:

      (a) every one who conspires with any one to commit murder or to cause another person to be murdered, whether in Canada or not, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to a maximum term of imprisonment for life;

      (b) every one who conspires with any one to prosecute a person for an alleged offence, knowing that he did not commit that offence, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable

      (i) to imprisonment for a term not exceed- ing ten years, if the alleged offence is one for which, on conviction, that person would be liable to be sentenced to impris- onment for life or for a term not exceeding fourteen years, or

      (ii) to imprisonment for a term not ex- ceeding five years, if the alleged offence is one for which, on conviction, that person would be liable to imprisonment for less than fourteen years;

      (c) every one who conspires with any one to commit an indictable offence not provided for in paragraph (a) or (b) is guilty of an in- dictable offence and liable to the same pun- ishment as that to which an accused who is guilty of that offence would, on conviction, be liable; and

      (d) every one who conspires with any one to commit an offence punishable on summary conviction is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

      (2) [Repealed, 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 61]

      465. Complot

      (1) Sauf disposition expressément contraire de la loi, les dispositions suivantes s’appliquent à l’égard des complots :

      a) quiconque complote avec quelqu’un de commettre un meurtre ou de faire assassiner une autre personne, au Canada ou à l’étran- ger, est coupable d’un acte criminel et pas- sible de l’emprisonnement à perpétuité;

      b) quiconque complote avec quelqu’un de poursuivre une personne pour une infraction présumée, sachant qu’elle n’a pas commis cette infraction, est coupable d’un acte crimi- nel et passible :

      (i) d’un emprisonnement maximal de dix ans, si la prétendue infraction en est une pour laquelle, sur déclaration de culpabili- té, cette personne serait passible de l’em- prisonnement à perpétuité ou d’un empri- sonnement maximal de quatorze ans,

      (ii) d’un emprisonnement maximal de cinq ans, si la prétendue infraction en est une pour laquelle, sur déclaration de culpabilité, cette personne serait passible d’un emprisonnement de moins de qua- torze ans;

      c) quiconque complote avec quelqu’un de commettre un acte criminel que ne vise pas l’alinéa a) ou b) est coupable d’un acte cri- minel et passible de la même peine que celle dont serait passible, sur déclaration de culpa- bilité, un prévenu coupable de cette infrac- tion;

      d) quiconque complote avec quelqu’un de commettre une infraction punissable sur dé- claration de culpabilité par procédure som- maire est coupable d’une infraction punis- sable sur déclaration de culpabilité par procédure sommaire.

      (2) [Abrogé, L.R. (1985), ch. 27 (1er suppl.), art. 61]

       
       

      Cross-Cutting Issues

      • Jurisdiction

        • • Active principle of nationality (offence committed outside its territory by its nationals)
          • Passive principle of nationality (offence committed outside its territory against its nationals)
          • Effects doctrine (offence committed outside its territory over a conduct that produces substantial effects within the territory)
          • Principle of territoriality (offences committed upon one state’s territory, even if the offender is a foreign citizen)
          • Habitual residence (jurisdiction is established based on the place of habitual residence of the offender)
          • Protective jurisdiction (jurisdiction is established where a criminal act abroad is derogatory to the security of the state concerned and/or touches upon its vital interests)
          • Universal jurisdiction (jurisdiction is established over any person accused of committing grave international crimes e.g. piracy, war crimes, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions)
          • On board a ship/vessel flying its flag
          • On board an aircraft registered under its laws
          • Legally binding international agreements
      • Liability

        • ... as involves

          • • principal offender(s)
            • participant, facilitator, accessory
            • financier
       

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