UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME — Rwanda law | Esheria

UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME

This provision states that the Convention’s purpose is to strengthen cooperation to prevent and combat transnational organized crime more effectively.

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Jurisdiction
Rwanda
Instrument
Act or statute
Status
In force
Version
Undated source snapshot
Language
mul
Updated
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This provision states that the Convention’s purpose is to strengthen cooperation to prevent and combat transnational organized crime more effectively. This article defines key terms used in the Convention, including organized criminal group, serious crime, property, freezing/seizure, confiscation, predicate offence, controlled delivery, and regional economic integration organization. This article says the Convention applies to prevention, investigation, and prosecution of certain listed offences and serious transnational crime involving an organized criminal group. States Parties must carry out their Convention obligations consistently with sovereignty, territorial integrity, and non-intervention, and they are not entitled to exercise another State’s reserved powers in that State’s territory. Each State Party must make intentional participation in organized criminal group conduct a criminal offence.