Financing Terrorism

• SECTION 4. Financing of Terrorism.

  Any person who, directly or indirectly, willfully and without lawful excuse, possesses, provides, collects or uses property or funds or makes available property, funds or financial service or other related services, by any means, with the unlawful and willful intention that they should be used or with the knowledge that they are to be used, in full or in part: xxx
• Acts of Financing Terrorism

  (a) to carry out or facilitate the commission of any terrorist act;

  (b) by a terrorist organization, association or group; or

  (c) by an individual terrorist, shall be guilty of the crime of financing of terrorism
• Sec. 4 (2) Financing Terrorism

  Any person who organizes or directs others to commit financing of

  terrorism under the immediately preceding paragraph shall likewise be guilty of an offense and shall suffer the same penalty as herein prescribed.
• Section 4

  For purposes of this Act, knowledge or intent may be established by

  direct evidence or inferred from the attendant circumstances.
• Section 4 Financing Terrorism

  For an act to constitute a crime under this Act, it shall not be necessary

  that the funds were actually used to carry out a crime referred to in Section 3
• Section 5 Attempt or Conspiracy to Commit the Crimes of Financing of Terrorism and Dealing with Property or Funds of Designated Persons.

  
  

  Any attempt to commit any crime under Section 4 or Section 8

  under this Act shall be penalized by a penalty two degrees lower than that prescribed for the commission of the same as provided under this Act.
• Any conspiracy to commit Financing of Terrorism or Dealing with Property of Designated Persons of this Act shall be penalized by the same penalty prescribed for the commission of such crime under the said sections.
• Section 5

  There is conspiracy to commit the offenses punishable under Sections

  4 and 8 of this Act when two (2) or more persons come to an agreement concerning the commission of such offenses and decided to commit it.
• Section 6 Accomplice

  Any person who, not being a principal under Article 17 of the Revised Penal Code or a conspirator as defined in Section 5 hereof, cooperates in the execution of either the crime of financing of terrorism or conspiracy to commit the crime of financing of terrorism by previous or simultaneous acts shall suffer the penalty one degree lower than that prescribed for the conspirator.
• Section 7 Accessory

  Any person who, having knowledge of the commission of the crime of financing of terrorism but without having participated therein as a principal, takes part subsequent to its commission, by profiting from it or by assisting the principal or principals to profit by the effects of the crime, or by concealing or destroying the effects of the crime in order to prevent its discovery, or by harboring, concealing or assisting in the escape of a principal of the crime shall be guilty as an accessory
• SECTION 8. Prohibition Against Dealing with Property or Funds of Designated Persons.

  1. deals directly or indirectly, with any property or fund that he knows or has reasonable ground to believe is owned or controlled by a designated person, organization, association or group of persons, including funds derived or generated from property or funds owned or controlled, by a terrorist
  2. makes available any property or funds, or financial services or other related services to a designated and/or identified person, organization, association, or group of persons
• SECTION 9. Offense by a Juridical Person, Corporate Body or Alien.

  the penalty shall be imposed upon the responsible officers, as the case may be, who participated in, or allowed by their gross negligence, the commission of the crime or who shall have knowingly permitted or failed to prevent its commission. If the offender is a juridical person, the court may suspend or revoke its license. If the offender is an alien, the alien shall, in addition to the penalties herein prescribed, be deported without further proceedings after serving the penalties herein prescribed.
• SECTION 17. Â Predicate Offense to Money Laundering

  Financing of terrorism under Section 4 and offenses punishable under Sections 5, 6, and 7 of this Act shall be predicate offenses to money laundering as defined in Republic Act No. 9160
• SECTION 19. Extra-Territorial Application of this Act.

  1. commit, conspire or plot to commit any of the crimes defined and punished in this Act inside the territorial limits of the Philippines;
  2. commit any of the said crimes on board Philippine ship or Philippine airship;
  3. within any embassy, consulate, or diplomatic premises belonging to or occupied by the Philippine government in an official capacity;
  4. against Philippine citizens or persons of Philippine descent, where their citizenship or ethnicity was a factor in the commission of the crime; and
  5. directly against the Philippine government.