The three principal money laundering offences under POCA are focused on dealings with criminal property. It is an offence to:

• conceal, disguise, convert, transfer or remove from the jurisdiction criminal property
• facilitate the acquisition, retention use or control of criminal property, and
• to acquire, use or possess criminal property.

Where charges of money laundering are brought the prosecution must prove that that the property is a person’s benefit from criminal conduct and that the person knew or suspected that the property constitutes or represents such a benefit. The definition of criminal property has a wide interpretation and applies to dealings with the proceeds of any criminal offence. 

The maximum penalty for the principal money laundering offences is 14 years imprisonment. 

We can assist with:

• Advising those who are being investigated for money laundering offences
• Representing those who face prosecution for money laundering offences