Mental state accompanying a prohibited act. The Interpretive Notes to Recommendation 3 of the FATF 40 Recommendations of 2012 says that countries should ensure that the intent and knowledge required to prove the offence of money laundering is consistent with the standards outlined in the Vienna and Palermo Conventions, including the concept that such a mental state may be inferred from objective factual circumstances. The exact definition of knowledge accompanying an anti-money laundering act varies by country. Knowledge can be deemed, under certain circumstances, to include willful blindness, that is, “the deliberate avoidance of knowledge of the facts,” as some courts have defined the term.