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Article 5.Criminalization of participation inan organized criminal groupA. Negotiation textsFirst session: 19-29 January 1999France (A/AC.254/5)“Article 4“Offences and sanctions“1. Each State Party shall undertake to treat, in conformity with its domesticlegal system, the following as criminal offences carrying effective, proportionate anddeterrent sanctions:“(a)“(b)Participation in a criminal organization;Money-laundering.“2. For the purposes of applying paragraph 1 (b) of this article:“(a) The question of whether the principal offence falls under the criminal jurisdictionof the State Party shall be deemed irrelevant;“(b) It may be stipulated that the offence of money-laundering does not applyto the persons who have committed the principal offence;“(c) Knowledge, intention or final purpose, as constituents of the offence ofmoney-laundering, may be deduced from objective factual circumstances.“3. Each State Party shall aggravate sentences for crimes or offences committedwithin the framework of [in relation with] a criminal organization as defined underarticle 2 of this Convention.“4. Each State Party shall also adopt measures to make the following liable tocriminal sanctions:“(a) Attempting to commit offences as defined under paragraphs 1 and 3 of thisarticle;“(b) Acting as an accomplice to the offences mentioned under paragraph 1 (b)and paragraph 3 of this article;“(c) Knowingly profiting from a crime or offence committed by a criminalorganization.”39