Countries should criminalise money laundering on the basis of the Vienna Convention and the Palermo Convention. Countries should apply the crime of money laundering to all serious offences, with a view to including the widest range of predicate offences.
4. Confiscation and provisional measures *
Countries should ensure that they have policies and operational frameworks that prioritise asset recovery in both the domestic and international context.
Taking into account the Vienna Convention, the Palermo Convention, the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and the Terrorist Financing Convention, countries should have measures, including legislative measures, to enable their competent authorities to:
a) identify, trace and evaluate criminal property and property of corresponding value;
b) suspend or withhold consent to a transaction;
c) take any appropriate investigative measures;
d) expeditiously carry out provisional measures, such as freezing and s
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