Key legal question
Whether negligent financial transactions under Art. 305ter CP were time-barred because the offence was instantaneous rather than continuous.
Extracted holding
The offence may be continuous when the financial intermediary maintains a business relationship and fails throughout to verify or correct the beneficial owner's identity; limitation starts when the relationship ends or the unlawful situation is cured.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that Art. 305ter CP punishes professional financial conduct and that, for ongoing relationships, the identification duty persists until the relationship ends. Since the appellant managed the accounts continuously without proper verification, prescription had not run.