Beijing News (Reporter Cheng Weimiao) punished 525 institutions and imposed a fine of 202 million yuan. This is the "transcript" of the anti-money laundering work announced by the central bank a few days ago. Since 2020, the central bank's anti-money laundering efforts have not diminished, and existing banks, securities firms, and payment institutions have received tens of millions of yuan in fines. At the same time, the police's arrest of money laundering criminal gangs has also continued. Since the beginning of the year, police in Hohhot, Quanzhou, Nanning and other places have announced that they have successfully smashed criminal gangs that buy and sell bank accounts.
Common money laundering channels include underground banks, bank accounts, etc., all of which have been the targets of regulatory crackdowns in recent years. The Central Bank's Anti-Money Laundering Bureau recently announced that in 2019, the central bank's entire system conducted a total of 658 anti-money laundering special law enforcement inspections and 1086 comprehensive anti-money laundering content enforcement inspections, punishing 525 illegal institutions and fined 202 million yuan; penalizing 838 individuals The fine was 13.41 million yuan. The fines totaled 215 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.7%. From the perspective of the types of penalized institutions, there are 422 banking institutions, accounting for 80%, and the number of penalties imposed on securities institutions, insurance institutions, and non-bank payment institutions are all doubled.
Strict supervision has entered normalization. At the 2020 anti-money laundering video and telephone conference held in mid-April, Liu Guoqiang, deputy governor of the central bank, proposed five requirements: first, to comprehensively improve the anti-money laundering system based on the revision of the Anti-Money Laundering Law; and second, to further strengthen The construction of anti-money laundering coordination mechanism; the third is to fully promote the follow-up rectification work of the international anti-money laundering mutual evaluation; the fourth is to strengthen supervision and further improve the effectiveness of anti-money laundering supervision; the fifth is to actively combat money laundering and related criminal activities.
The Beijing News reporter noted that since this year, many institutions have received large fines for violating anti-money laundering regulations. For example, in mid-February, Minsheng Bank, China Everbright Bank, and Huatai Securities were fined 23.6 million yuan, 18.2 million yuan, and 10.1 million yuan, respectively, for violating anti-money laundering laws. Recently, the central bank branch of Zhengzhou City Center disclosed that UBS Credit, a third-party payment company, was fined RMB 6.805 million for nine violations. At the beginning of April, the company had just been imposed a fine of 61.24 million yuan by the central bank's Shenzhen Central Sub-branch, and both penalties included "unfulfilled customer identification obligations" and other reasons for violating anti-money laundering laws.
At the same time, the police's arrest of money laundering criminal gangs continued. Public reports show that in early April, the Nanning police successfully smashed a criminal gang that bought and sold public accounts, and arrested 27 suspects who were suspected of buying and selling state documents; in mid-April, the Hohhot Saihan District Public Security Bureau smashed a "telecom fraud" black At the front end of the gray industrial chain, three criminal suspects were arrested; at the end of April, the Quanzhou Public Security Bureau reported that it had cracked the "4.1" extraordinarily large cross-border business account and personal bank card project, and successively arrested 17 criminal suspects, and A large number of sets of bank cards, U shields, mobile phone cards, business licenses, etc. were seized.
The police also reminded that, according to the regulations of the Central Bank, all units and individuals who counterfeit their identity and illegally buy and sell bank accounts will be suspended from all transaction activities of the account. Enterprises and legal persons shall not open new accounts within 5 years and be included in bad credit records.
Reporter Cheng Weimiao