China News Agency, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Zhang Su) The reporter learned from the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China on the 3rd that since 2020, the number of money laundering crimes prosecuted by procuratorial organs has maintained a rapid increase.
From January to September this year, Chinese prosecutors prosecuted a total of 1,462 people for money laundering, a year-on-year increase of 142.5%.
According to the person in charge of the Fourth Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, a background for the rapid increase in the number of money laundering crimes prosecuted by the prosecutors lies in the implementation of Amendment (11) to the Criminal Law.
In accordance with the new requirements of the law for handling self-money laundering cases, procuratorial organs in many places have additionally prosecuted money laundering crimes after finding clues about self-money laundering by predicate criminals during the review and prosecution of drug crimes, corruption and bribery crimes and other cases.
Among the typical cases of procuratorial organs punishing money laundering crimes released by the official on the 3rd is a self-money laundering case.
In the "Feng Moucai and Others Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Case", the prosecutor believed that Feng Moucai had the intention of disguising and concealing the source and nature of criminal proceeds and the source and nature of the proceeds of crime and then transferred the illicit money to other people's financial accounts after receiving the stolen drug. .
The prosecutors prosecuted Feng Moucai for drug trafficking and money laundering, and Feng Moucai pleaded guilty.
The person in charge of the Fourth Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme People's Procuratorate said that those who launder money after committing a predicate crime should not only be held criminally responsible for the predicate crime, but also criminally responsible for the money laundering crime.
This batch of cases also revealed various forms of money laundering methods, some of which are "typical cross-border asset transfer-based money laundering crimes", and some "money laundering by means of false equity transactions".
The Supreme People's Procuratorate stated that it will continue to adhere to the simultaneous review of predicate crimes and money laundering crimes, continue to intensify the prosecution of money laundering crimes, and use anti-money laundering as a means to curb predicate crimes and promote the recovery of assets and losses.
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