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... Determined to prevent, detect and deter in a more effective manner international transfers of illicitly acquired assets and to strengthen international cooperation in asset recovery, ...
ARTICLE-2: Use of terms [go to this ARTICLE]
... (f) "Freezing" or "seizure" shall mean temporarily prohibiting the transfer, 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; ...
ARTICLE-14: Measures to prevent money-laundering [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. States Parties shall consider implementing feasible measures to detect and monitor the movement of cash and appropriate negotiable instruments across their borders, subject to safeguards to ensure proper use of information and without impeding in any way the movement of legitimate capital. Such measures may include a requirement that individuals and businesses report the cross-border transfer of substantial quantities of cash and appropriate negotiable instruments. ...
... (a) To include on forms for the electronic transfer of funds and related messages accurate and meaningful information on the originator; ...
... (c) To apply enhanced scrutiny to transfers of funds that do not contain complete information on the originator. ...
ARTICLE-23: Laundering of proceeds of crime [go to this ARTICLE]
... (i) The conversion or transfer of property, knowing that such property is the proceeds of crime, for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property or of helping any person who is involved in the commission of the predicate offence to evade the legal consequences of his or her action; ...
ARTICLE-45: Transfer of sentenced persons [go to this ARTICLE]
... States Parties may consider entering into bilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangements on the transfer to their territory of persons sentenced to imprisonment or other forms of deprivation of liberty for offences established in accordance with this Convention in order that they may complete their sentences there. ...
ARTICLE-47: Transfer of criminal proceedings [go to this ARTICLE]
... Transfer of criminal proceedings ...
... States Parties shall consider the possibility of transferring to one another proceedings for the prosecution of an offence established in accordance with this Convention in cases where such transfer is considered to be in the interests of the proper administration of justice, in particular in cases where several jurisdictions are involved, with a view to concentrating the prosecution. ...
ARTICLE-52: Prevention and detection of transfers of proceeds of crime [go to this ARTICLE]
... 4. With the aim of preventing and detecting transfers of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention, each State Party shall implement appropriate and effective measures to prevent, with the help of its regulatory and oversight bodies, the establishment of banks that have no physical presence and that are not affiliated with a regulated financial group. Moreover, States Parties may consider requiring their financial institutions to refuse to enter into or continue a correspondent banking relationship with such institutions and to guard against establishing relations with foreign financial institutions that permit their accounts to be used by banks that have no physical presence and that are not affiliated with a regulated financial group. ...
ARTICLE-58: Financial intelligence unit [go to this ARTICLE]
... States Parties shall cooperate with one another for the purpose of preventing and combating the transfer of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention and of promoting ways and means of recovering such proceeds and, to that end, shall consider establishing a financial intelligence unit to be responsible for receiving, analysing and disseminating to the competent authorities reports of suspicious financial transactions. ...
ARTICLE-60: Training and technical assistance [go to this ARTICLE]
... (e) Preventing and combating the transfer of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention and recovering such proceeds; ...
... (f) Detecting and freezing of the transfer of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention; ...
... (g) Surveillance of the movement of proceeds of offences established in accordance with this Convention and of the methods used to transfer, conceal or disguise such proceeds; ...