Court Of Justice: Money Laundering Offence May Be Committed By The ...

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In LG and MH (Autoblanchiment) (C‑790/19), the Court of Justice held that the Anti-Money Laundering Directive (2015/849) does not preclude national law providing that the person committing a money laundering offence may be the same as the one committing the from which the laundered money derives (the predicate offence).

In the present case, the referring court, the Court of Appeal of Brașov (Romania), sought the interpretation of Article 1(3)(a) of the Directive, as it believed that the same person cannot be guilty of both the money laundering offence as well as the predicate offence under said provision, which would also disregard the ne bis in idem principle. In its judgment, like Advocate General Hogan in his Opinion, the Court

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