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financial crime

(in accordance with section 1H157 of the Act) any kind of criminal conduct relating to money or to financial services or markets, including any offence involving:

  1. (a) fraud or dishonesty; or
  2. (b) misconduct in, or misuse of information relating to, a financial market; or
  3. (c) handling the proceeds of crime; or157
  4. (d) the financing of terrorism;157

in this definition, "offence" includes an act or omission which would be an offence if it had taken place in the United Kingdom.2