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Part Ⅰ New instruments in the fight against acquisitive crime: confiscation of proceeds from crime and criminalisation of money laundering 3

1 The background of the fight against money laundering 3

Legal background 3

Social-economic background: organised crime and drug offences 6

Expansion of the application field to other offences 11

Transformations of the norm-making process 14

2 The confiscation 29

General concepts of confiscation 30

Confiscation of the instrumentalities or the subject of crime 43

Confiscation of the proceeds of crime 47

The dangerous attractiveness of confiscation: policing and prosecuting for profit 56

Human rights limitations to the confiscation sanctions 60

3 The fight against money laundering: genesis of a new crime 82

Money laundering: the phenomenon and the reasons for fighting it 82

The fight against money laundering in the United States of America 96

The fight against money laundering in Switzerland 100

The twin-track fight against money laundering: the preventive and the repressive approach 108

The international treaty obligation to criminalise money laundering: a drastic expansion of criminal liability? 113

Part Ⅱ The prevention of money laundering 133

4 The application field of legislation on the prevention of money laundering 133

The application field of ratione personae 133

The application field of ratione materiae 140

5 The role of financial institutions in the prevention of money laundering 143

Preventive obligations derogating from traditional banking principles 143

Customer identification 146

The identification and record-keeping obligations method 157

Obligations to report (suspicious) transactions 159

Internal control procedures and training programmes for employees 178

Financial institutions as policemen? 179

6 The role of financial intelligence units in combating money laundering 183

The creation of financial intelligence units 183

Secrecy duty of financial intelligence units 190

The specialty principle 193

7 The role of the supervisory authorities in combating money laundering 200

The duty of supervisory authorities to report facts of money laundering 201

The administrative sanctioning powers of supervisory authorities in case of non-observance of the legislation to prevent money laundering 202

Part Ⅲ Jurisdiction over money laundering 209

8 Various types of jurisdictional problem in the fight against money laundering 209

9 Territorial jurisdiction in respect of money laundering offences 215

Distinction with jurisdiction in respect of the predicate offence 215

Localising money laundering acts 217

Double criminality in respect of the predicate offence 226

10 Extra-territorial jurisdiction in respect of money laundering offences 232

Jurisdiction on the basis of the nationality principle 232

Jurisdiction over foreign corporate conduct under financial preventive law 238

Part Ⅳ International co-operation in combating money laundering 251

11 The money laundering regime: new objectives of international co-operation in criminal matters 251

Objectives of domestic and international criminal justice 251

The case for a reform of the international co-operation in criminal matters 252

12 The money laundering regime: new modes of international evidence-gathering 258

Exchange of information relating to suspicious financial transactions: judicial, administrative or police assistance? 258

Mutual administrative assistance between Fills: basis, restrictions and ramijications on criminal proceedings 269

Unilateral extra-territorial measures 278

On the relative importance of treaty-based co-operation in criminal matters 283

13 Some of the conditions, principles and exceptions of mutual judicial assistance in criminal matters revisited 287

The condition of double criminality 287

The fiscal and political offence exception 299

The locus regit actum principle 301

14 Lifting banking secrecy in an international context 311

Background of the American approach to extra-territorial disclosure orders 312

Extra-territorial disclosure orders 318

International co-operation in lifting foreign banking secrecy 329

15 Provisional measures for preserving alleged proceeds of crime in an international context 352

Domestic provisional measures with an extra-territorial reach 353

The treaty mechanisms for taking provisional measures 370

16 International enforcement of confiscation orders 381

Unilateral confiscation measures 381

International co-operation mechanisms for the enforcement of confiscations 385

International asset sharing 416

Epilogue 420

Bibliography 432

Index 458