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62 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeC. Interpretative notesThe interpretative notes on article 6 of the Convention approved by the Ad HocCommittee and contained in its report on the work of its first to eleventh sessions(see A/55/383/Add.1), paras. 10-13) are as follows:(a) The terms “laundering of proceeds of crime” and “money-laundering”are understood to be equivalent.Paragraphs 1 (a) and (b)(b) The terms “concealing or disguising” and “concealment or disguise”should be understood to include preventing the discovery of the illicit origins ofproperty.Paragraph 2 (b)(c) The words “associated with organized criminal groups” are intendedto indicate criminal activity of the type in which organized criminal groups engage.Paragraph 2 (e)(d) Subparagraph (e) takes into account legal principles of several Stateswhere prosecution or punishment of the same person for both the predicate offenceand the money-laundering offence is not permitted. Those States confirmed thatthey did not refuse extradition, mutual legal assistance or cooperation for purposesof confiscation solely because the request was based on a money-launderingoffence the predicate offence of which was committed by the same person.