# FATF R.5 — Terrorist financing offence - **Part of:** [[FATF Recommendations]] Countries must criminalise terrorist financing on the basis of the Terrorist Financing Convention. The offence must cover financing of terrorist acts and also of terrorist organisations and individual terrorists, even without a link to a specific act, and must be a predicate offence for money laundering. ## Keyed AMLR articles _none_ ## Further AMLR connections - [[AMLR Art. 2 - Definitions|AMLR Art. 2]] — AMLR Art. 2(1)(2) defines terrorist financing by reference to Article 11 of Directive (EU) 2017/541; R.5 requires countries to criminalise it. *(related)* ## Swiss counterparts - [[StGB Art. 260quinquies - Terrorist financing|StGB Art. 260quinquies]] — StGB Art. 260quinquies criminalises collecting or providing assets to finance a violent crime meant to intimidate the population or coerce a state or international organisation; merely accepting the possibility is not enough (Abs. 2). *(direct)* - [[StGB Art. 260ter - Criminal and terrorist organisations|StGB Art. 260ter]] — StGB Art. 260ter punishes participating in or supporting a criminal or terrorist organisation; R.5 also requires financing of terrorist organisations to be an offence without a link to a specific act. *(related)* ## Authoritative text > [!quote]- FATF Recommendation 5 — text of the Recommendation (FATF Recommendations, updated June 2026); interpretive note not reproduced > **5. Terrorist financing offence** > Countries should criminalise terrorist financing on the basis of the Terrorist Financing Convention, and should criminalise not only the financing of terrorist acts but also the financing of terrorist organisations and individual terrorists even in the absence of a link to a specific terrorist act or acts. Countries should ensure that such offences are designated as money laundering predicate offences.