Key legal question
Whether the criminal limitation period for money laundering had expired before the final conviction
Extracted holding
The limitation period had expired because only a conviction at first instance interrupts limitation; the prior acquittal and the Federal Court remand did not stop it.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 97(3) CP requires a first-instance conviction. An acquittal, even if later quashed, does not interrupt the running of limitation. The earlier Federal Court judgment was only a remand and not a conviction entered in the operative part.