The larger crime may be racketeering, money laundering, financing of terrorism, etc.
[2] These include bribery, blackmail, extortion, fraud, theft, money laundering, counterfeiting, and illegal gambling.
For example, using false identification is itself a crime; it may be a predicate offense to larceny or fraud if it is used to withdraw money from a bank account.
[5] Since 2004, the FATF have updated the 40 Recommendations to expand the list of predicate offences.
[6] With the passage of the 6th EU Money Laundering Directive,[7] the European Union has now adopted as standard set of Predicate Offences to mitigate loopholes in member state AML legislation.