criminal activity

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09/07/2018 – today applies on 10/11/2026 Article 3, Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive Scope: Whole act

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply:

‘criminal activity’ means any kind of criminal involvement in the commission of the following serious crimes: terrorist offences, offences related to a terrorist group and offences related to terrorist activities as set out in Titles II and III of Directive (EU) 2017/541 (^{8}); any of the offences referred in Article 3(1)(a) of the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances; the activities of criminal organisations as defined in Article 1(1) of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA (^{9}); fraud affecting the Union's financial interests, where it is at least serious, as defined in Article 1(1) and Article 2(1) of the Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests (^{10}); corruption; all offences, including tax crimes relating to direct taxes and indirect taxes and as defined in the national law of the Member States, which are punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a maximum of more than one year or, as regards Member States that have a minimum threshold for offences in their legal system, all offences punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a minimum of more than six months;

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