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“Unit” means the Bank Use Promotion and Suppression of Money Laundering Unit
established in terms of section three;
“unit trust scheme” has the meaning given to that term in section 2 of the Collective
Investment Schemes Act, 1997;
“Zimbabwe Revenue Authority” means the Authority established in terms of section 3 of the
Revenue Authority Act [Chapter 23:11].
(2) A reference in this Act to⎯
(a) a male or female person includes, where appropriate, a corporate body;
(b) money laundering or laundering the proceeds of a serious offence means any act,
scheme, arrangement, device, deception or artifice whatsoever by which the true
origin of the proceeds of any serious offence is sought to be hidden or disguised;
(c) a person being charged or about to be charged with a serious offence is a reference
to a procedure, however described, in Zimbabwe or elsewhere, by which criminal
proceedings may be commenced;
(d) a benefit obtained or otherwise accruing to a person, includes a reference to a
benefit derived or obtained by, or otherwise accruing to, another person at the
request or direction of that person.
(3) For the purposes of this Act—
(a) dealing with property held by any person shall include—
(i) where the property is a debt owed to that person, making a payment to any
person in reduction or full settlement of the amount of the debt; or
(ii) converting or receiving the property as a gift; or
(iii) removing the property from Zimbabwe;
(b) a person shall be deemed to have benefited from the proceeds of a serious offence if—
(i) he or she at any time, whether before or after the fixed date, receives any
payment or other reward in connection with, or derives any pecuniary advantage
from the commission of a serious offence, whether committed by him or her or
another person;
(ii) he or she receives or derives a payment, reward or pecuniary advantage in
connection with the commission of a serious offence, whether he or she receives
or derives such payment, reward or pecuniary advantage before or after the fixed
date;
(iii) the value of his or her proceeds from a serious offence is the aggregate of the
values of the payments, rewards or pecuniary advantages received or derived by
him or her in connection with the commission of the offence.