-7- CHAPTER 1 – OFFENSES AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES Section 1 – Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Offenses Article 2 Any person who knows that funds are the proceeds of crime and who has done the following voluntarily shall be considered to have committed a money laundering offense: a. converts or transfers or substitutes such funds with the purpose of disguising or concealing the illicit origin thereof, or helping a person involved in the commission of the predicate offense evade the legal consequences for his/her acts; or b. disguises or conceals the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of such funds, or rights pertaining thereto. c. Acquires, possesses or uses such funds. A legal person shall be held liable for a money laundering offense if it were committed in its name or to its credit. Punishment of the person for a predicate offense shall not preclude conviction of that same person for a money laundering offense. When establishing that funds are proceeds of crime, a conviction for the commission of a predicate offense shall not be required. Article 3 Any person who by any means, directly or indirectly, unlawfully and willfully, collects or provides funds, with the knowledge that they will be used or with the intent that they should be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out a terrorist act or for the benefit of a terrorist organization or of a terrorist shall be considered to have committed a terrorism financing offense. Any of the acts mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be considered a terrorism financing offense even if the terrorist act does not occur, or if the funds are not actually used to commit or attempt to commit the act or if the funds are not linked to a specific terrorist act.