For the purposes of this Convention:
- a.‘‘proceeds’’ means any economic advantage, derived from or obtained, directly or indirectly, from criminal offences. It may consist of any property as defined in sub-paragraph b of this article;
- b.‘‘property’’ includes property of any description, whether corporeal or incorporeal, movable or immovable, and legal documents or instruments evidencing title to or interest in such property;
- c.‘‘instrumentalities’’ means any property used or intended to be used, in any manner, wholly or in part, to commit a criminal offence or criminal offences;
- d.‘‘confiscation’’ means a penalty or a measure, ordered by a court following proceedings in relation to a criminal offence or criminal offences resulting in the final deprivation of property;
- e.‘‘predicate offence’’ means any criminal offence as a result of which proceeds were generated that may become the subject of an offence as defined in Article 9 of this Convention.
- f.‘‘financial intelligence unit’’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘‘FIU’’) means a central, national agency responsible for receiving (and, as permitted, requesting), analysing and disseminating to the competent authorities, disclosures of financial information
- (i)concerning suspected proceeds and potential financing of terrorism, or
- (ii)required by national legislation or regulation, in order to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism;
- g.‘‘freezing’’ or ‘‘seizure’’ means temporarily prohibiting the transfer, destruction, conversion, disposition or movement of property or temporarily assuming custody or control of property on the basis of an order issued by a court or other competent authority;
- h.‘‘financing of terrorism’’ means the acts set out in Article 2 of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, cited above.
