# FATF R.3 — Money laundering offence - **Part of:** [[FATF Recommendations]] Countries must criminalise money laundering on the basis of the Vienna and Palermo Conventions and apply it to all serious offences, aiming at the widest range of predicate offences. Under the interpretive note, predicate offences may be set by list, by category or by a penalty threshold (for example a maximum penalty of more than one year's imprisonment), must include a range of offences in each designated category and extend to conduct abroad; a conviction for the predicate offence is not needed to prove that property is proceeds of crime. ## Keyed AMLR articles _none_ ## Further AMLR connections - [[AMLR Art. 2 - Definitions|AMLR Art. 2]] — AMLR Art. 2(1)(1) defines money laundering by reference to Directive (EU) 2018/1673; R.3 requires countries to criminalise it. *(related)* ## Swiss counterparts - [[StGB Art. 305bis - Money laundering|StGB Art. 305bis]] — StGB Art. 305bis is the Swiss money-laundering offence; predicate offences are felonies (*Verbrechen*) and qualified tax offences (Ziff. 1bis), including those committed abroad if punishable there (Ziff. 3). *(direct)* ## Authoritative text > [!quote]- FATF Recommendation 3 — text of the Recommendation (FATF Recommendations, updated June 2026); interpretive note not reproduced > **3. Money laundering offence** > 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.