CELEX: 62019CA0790
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-790/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 2 September 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Braşov — Romania) — Parchetul de pe lângă Tribunalul Braşov v LG, MH (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing — Directive (EU) 2015/849 — Directive 2005/60/EC — Offence of money laundering — Laundering by the perpetrator of the predicate offence (‘self-laundering’))

25.10.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 431/21
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 2 September 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Braşov — Romania) — Parchetul de pe lângă Tribunalul Braşov v LG, MH
      (Case C-790/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing - Directive (EU) 2015/849 - Directive 2005/60/EC - Offence of money laundering - Laundering by the perpetrator of the predicate offence (‘self-laundering’))
      (2021/C 431/21)
      Language of the case: Romanian
      
         Referring court
      
      Curtea de Apel Braşov
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Parchetul de pe lângă Tribunalul Braşov
      
         Defendants: LG, MH
      
         Intervener: Agenţia Naţională de Administrare Fiscală — Direcţia Generală Regională a Finanţelor Publice Braşov
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 1(2)(a) of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which provides that the offence of money laundering, within the meaning of that provision, may be committed by the perpetrator of the criminal activity from which the money concerned was derived.
      
         (1)  OJ C 54, 17.2.2020.