Provision or collection of funds, by any means, directly or indirectly, with the intent to use them or knowing that they will be used, in whole or in part:
a) to commit offences for terrorist purposes;
b) by a terrorist organisation;
c) by a single terrorist;
shall be punished by not less than fifteen years of imprisonment or life imprisonment.
The provisions of this Article shall apply:
a) to all funds, including assets of any kind, tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, irrespective of the manner of their acquisition, and legal documents or instruments of any kind, even in electronic or digital form, that demonstrate rights to or interests over such assets, including bank loans, traveller’s cheques, bank cheques, money orders, shares, securities, bonds, bank guaranteed cheques, credit cards, and any other financial instrument, similar to them;
b) regardless of whether the person who commits one of the offences enlisted in the first paragraph of this Article, is located in the same country or another country where the terrorist organisation or single terrorist is located, or the country where the offence with terrorist purposes has been committed or will be committed;
c) in the case provided for the first paragraph of this Article, regardless of whether the funds have actually been used to commit the offence or offences for which those funds were provided or collected, or whether a connection can be established between the funds and one or more of the specific offences with terrorist purposes.
Knowledge and intent, under the first paragraph of this Article, shall be derived from the objective factual circumstances”.
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