327 Concealing etc
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (2002 c 29) | Legislation

Part 7 Money Laundering

Offences

327  Concealing etc

(1)     A person commits an offence if he—

(a)     conceals criminal property;

(b)     disguises criminal property;

(c)     converts criminal property;

(d)     transfers criminal property;

(e)     removes criminal property from England and Wales or from Scotland or from Northern Ireland.

(2)     But a person does not commit such an offence if—

(a)     he makes an authorised disclosure under section 338 and (if the disclosure is made before he does the act mentioned in subsection (1)) he has the appropriate consent;

(b)     he intended to make such a disclosure but had a reasonable excuse for not doing so;

(c)     the act he does is done in carrying out a function he has relating to the enforcement of any provision of this Act or of any other enactment relating to criminal conduct or benefit from criminal conduct.

[(2A)     Nor does a person commit an offence under subsection (1) if—

(a)     he knows, or believes on reasonable grounds, that the relevant criminal conduct occurred in a particular country or territory outside the United Kingdom, and

(b)     the relevant criminal conduct—

(i)     was not, at the time it occurred,

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