AMLA Section 3 — Definitions and predicate offences

Section 3 holds the definitions, including the list of 21 predicate offences (ความผิดมูลฐาน), among them drug offences; human-trafficking and certain sexual-exploitation offences; public fraud; offences by directors or managers of financial institutions; offences against public office or the administration of justice; extortion under the cover of a secret society; customs smuggling; terrorism offences under the Criminal Code; unlicensed gambling operations with total stakes of THB 5,000,000 or more, or electronic gambling; participation in organised crime; habitual or commercial theft, extortion, robbery, fraud and embezzlement; commercial counterfeiting or intellectual-property offences; forged documents; natural-resources offences; piracy; unfair securities and futures trading; and arms and explosives trading. Offences committed abroad count if they would be predicates when committed in Thailand. A suspicious transaction is defined to include one linked to a predicate offence or to financial support for terrorism; the terrorism predicate is the Criminal Code offence, not a financing offence. Financial institutions include banks, finance and credit-foncier companies, securities companies, life and non-life insurers, certain cooperatives with share capital of THB 2,000,000 or more, and juristic persons in other finance-related business set by ministerial regulation (limb (6)).