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Part One. Article 6 55“and, subject to the basic concepts of its legal system:“(c) The acquisition, possession or use [disposal, administration, safe keeping,exchange, guaranteeing, investment, transfer or transport] of property, knowing, atthe time of receipt [or subsequently], that such property is the proceeds of crime;“(d) Participation in, association with or conspiracy to commit, attempts to commitand aiding, abetting, facilitating and counselling the commission of any of theoffences established in accordance with this article. 27“[1 bis. States Parties shall ensure that their domestic laws on implementing thisarticle apply to the proceeds of those crimes associated with organized criminal groupsand also to the proceeds of other serious crimes. 28 States Parties shall, at the time ofsignature or when depositing their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval oraccession, by declaration addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations,specify the scope of the crimes covered. States Parties shall periodically review theirdomestic laws on implementing this article to ensure that they apply to an appropriatelybroad range of offences and shall, if appropriate, subsequently revise their declaration.]29“2. For the purposes of implementing or applying paragraph 1 of this article:“(a) It shall not matter whether the predicate offence was subject to the criminaljurisdiction of the State Party, provided that it is punishable under the domesticlaw of the State where the offence was committed;“(b) Knowledge, intent or purpose required as an element of an offence set forthin that paragraph may be inferred from objective factual circumstances. 30“3. Each State Party may adopt such measures as it considers necessary to establishalso as offences under its domestic law all or some of the acts referred to in paragraph1 of this article, in any or all of the following cases where the offender:“(b)“(c)activity.“(a) Ought to have assumed that the property was the proceeds of crime; 31Acted for the purpose of making a profit; orActed for the purpose of promoting the perpetration of further criminal“[3 bis. Where a law enforcement official or a person acting at his or her direction,in accordance with article 15 of this Convention, has represented property to bethe proceeds of crime, the fact that the property did not actually constitute the pro-27As indicated above, the United States had submitted a proposal for a new subparagraph, 1 (e) (see A/AC.254/L.24).Following the discussion at the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, that delegation undertook to consider the possibilityof reformulating the provision and resubmitting it in connection with article 15.28An alternative formulation could be “crimes covered by this convention”.29Paragraph 1 bis was revised by the United States, pursuant to informal consultations with a number of interesteddelegations, and was not discussed in detail at the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee (see A/AC.254/L.74). The term“serious crime” might be used elsewhere in the draft convention with a meaning that might not be appropriate in the contextof this revision (e.g. a definition for the purposes of article 2 bis that encompasses all crimes punishable by a deprivationof liberty of at least [...] years). If this was the case, the refinements in this paragraph or elsewhere in the draft conventionwould need to clarify that “crimes” within the scope of this provision would not necessarily encompass all crimes underarticle 2.30At the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, Austria, Denmark, Finland and Sweden supported the retention offormer paragraph 2 (b) of this article (contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.4).31Japan proposed the deletion of this subparagraph.