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For the purposes of this Convention:
a. ‘‘proceeds’’ means any economic advantage, derived from or obtained, directly or indirectly, from criminal offences. It may consist of any property as defined in sub-paragraph b of this article;
b. ‘‘property’’ includes property of any description, whether corporeal or incorporeal, movable or immovable, and legal documents or instruments evidencing title to or interest in such property;
c. ‘‘instrumentalities’’ means any property used or intended to be used, in any manner, wholly or in part, to commit a criminal offence or criminal offences;
d. ‘‘confiscation’’ means a penalty or a measure, ordered by a court following proceedings in relation to a criminal offence or criminal offences resulting in the final deprivation of property;
e. ‘‘predicate offence’’ means any criminal offence as a result of which proceeds were generated that may become the subject of an offence as defined in Article 9 of this Convention.
f. ‘‘financial intelligence unit’’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘‘FIU’’) means a central, national agency responsible for receiving (and, as permitted, requesting), analysing and disseminating to the competent authorities, disclosures of financial information (i) concerning suspected proceeds and potential financing of terrorism, or
(ii) required by national legislation or regulation, in order to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism;
(i) concerning suspected proceeds and potential financing of terrorism, or
(ii) required by national legislation or regulation,
g. ‘‘freezing’’ or ‘‘seizure’’ means temporarily prohibiting the transfer, destruction, conversion, disposition or movement of property or temporarily assuming custody or control of property on the basis of an order issued by a court or other competent authority;
h. ‘‘financing of terrorism’’ means the acts set out in Article 2 of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, cited above.