Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

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Money laundering
spondents to find them. The validity and reliability of the data collected from
these ‘other’ sources was considered satisfactory.
2. Trial and subsidiary questionnaire and evaluation
The group agreed on a new offence definition for money laundering. It was introduced
into the trial questionnaire and had the following wording:
Money laundering: specific financial transactions to conceal the identity, source, and/or
destination of money
Indicate Indicate whether included or
whether excluded:
separately in police in conviction
identifiable statistics statistics
in criminal
law (Y/N)
incl. excl. incl. excl.
Include the following:
receiving and handling illegally obtained
non-monetary property
attempts
Exclude the following:
receiving/handling stolen property
violations of the ‘know-your-customer’
rule (i.e. negligence in identification of
customer’s identity or origin of funds)
In addition to the regular data tables of the ESB questionnaire, the group also
decided to introduce special tables on the reporting of suspicious transctions into
the police chapter.
These new tables had the following structure: