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Anyone who receives, deposits, trades in, converts or transfers money, securities, property or other financial resources in the knowledge that they are derived from activities related to drug trafficking, fraud, illicit arms trafficking, trafficking in persons, kidnapping, extortion, embezzlement, corruption of public servants, terrorist acts, theft or international trafficking in vehicles, as provided for under Panamanian criminal law, with the aim of hiding or concealing their illicit origin or ofhelping to evade the legal consequences of such crimes shall be sentenced to 5 to 12 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 100 to 200 days.

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Such would be the case, for example, if a State party to the Convention against Torture sought to legitimize certain forms of torture under cover of an interpretation, or if a State that was a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide interpreted it as not covering certain forms of genocide – even though it has been pointed out that, in these examples, these so-called “interpretations” could be considered reservations and could fall within the purview of guideline 3.5.1.

Arms dealers in particular swing between licit and illicit business, covering their tracks through complex arrangements offront companies that invest the proceeds from crime.

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The trucks are loaded with weapons and ammunition, and the passengers and their goods ride on top to conceal the cargo.

The Commission highlighted climate change as an enormous challenge for the region in achieving sustained economic growth in terms of enhancing food and water security, managing forests and agricultural productivity, resilience to disasters, and the development of mountains as well as coastal areas, and thus overshadowing the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the region.

Article 8 of the Convention provides that subject to certain conditions, “a limited number of refuges intended to shelter movable cultural property in the event of armed conflict, of centres containing monuments and other immovable cultural property of very great importance” may be placed under special protection and that such protection is granted by their entry in the “International Register of Cultural Property under Special Protection”.

The international economy could no longer allow a financial market driven by profit to overshadow the development needs of the real economy.

The Group concluded (see S/2009/521, paras. 127-134) that the serial numbers had been removed to conceal the origin of the weapon (i.e. the party that had provided the weapons to the Forces nouvelles).

No amount of talk about the “economic unity of the world” can hide the fact that some countries with little export trade in industrial goods and few, if any, inventions for sale have nothing to gain from granting patents on inventions worked and patented abroad except the avoidance of unpleasant foreign retaliation in other directions.

The State party therefore understands such behaviour as a means used to conceal his political preferences from his superiors.

While transparency about the distribution of costs and benefits cannot solve corruption-related problems, it can make law-breaking more difficultto cover up.

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The data of this survey is collected by means of random telephone interviews conducted by real interviewers, not by any interactive voice system (IVS).

In addition to the fishmeal industry, fisheries by-products are also utilized for a wide range of other purposes, including the production of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, other industrial processes, as direct feeding for aquaculture and livestock, incorporation into pet feed or feed for animals kept for fur production, ensiling, fertilizer and landfill.

In cold water some oils with high pour points will solidify into unpredictable shapes and the appearance of the floating portions may disguise the total volume of oil present.

Practices such as “hosting” secret detention sites or providing proxy detention have, however, been supplemented by numerous other facets of complicity, including authorizing the landing of airplanes for refuelling, short-term deprivation of liberty before handing over the “suspect”, the covering up of kidnappings, and so on.

Conversely, if revenue information is aggregated at country level it would obscure often very large payments and be of limited use for improving transparency.

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He claims that these notes in the above X-ray reports were an attempt by the State party’s authorities to conceal the fractures that had already existed at that time.

But describing them as “rights” should not be allowed to conceal the very real dilemmas raised by their application in developing countries, where the extra costs they impose may be at the expense of the essential prerequisites of life for poor people.

These generaldata mask significant differences.

The clash began after a Thai patrol encountered Cambodian soldiers constructing bunkers near the Ta Krabei ruins.

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Pakistan regretted that practitioners of one of the worst forms of racism, the incitement to racial and religious hatred through the denigration of religions and negative stereotypes of religions or races, could take refuge behind freedom of expression and opinion to attack with impunity the rights of persons professing a different religion, disregarding accepted international standards.

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