Money laundering
Crime of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of assets from criminal activities. Lawyers are obliged entities under Law 10/2010 and must apply customer due diligence and report suspicious transactions to SEPBLAC. Corporate criminal liability applies to corporate money laundering.
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Circumstance that reduces the severity of the crime and allows imposing the sentence in its lower half. Includes: confession, damage repair, undue delays, drug addiction, kinship and analogous mitigating.
Circumstance that increases the severity of the crime and allows imposing the sentence in its upper half. Includes: treachery, abuse of superiority, disguise, price, discrimination and recidivism.
Benefit allowing suspension of imprisonment not exceeding 2 years (exceptionally 5), conditioned on not reoffending during the fixed period (2-5 years).
Agreement whereby the accused admits the facts and accepts the requested sentence, avoiding trial. In abbreviated proceedings it may be entered at any point before trial. Limit: if the requested sentence exceeds 6 years' imprisonment, the plea is only possible if the court freely accepts it.
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