Beijing's first "self-laundering" case was pronounced on January 17 at the Dongcheng District People's Court of Beijing Municipality (hereinafter referred to as the "Dongcheng Court").
The man Gu instructed others to transport drugs and instructed others to provide bank accounts in his name to help receive drug funds. In the end, Gu was convicted of the crime of trafficking and transporting drugs, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, deprived of political rights for three years, and sentenced to confiscation of personal property of 50,000 yuan; committing money laundering, sentenced to one year and three months imprisonment and fined 20,000 yuan; several crimes and punishment decided to carry out a fixed-term imprisonment of 16 years, deprivation of political rights for three years, a fine of 20,000 yuan, confiscation of personal property of 50,000 yuan, and continue to recover the defendant Gu X's illegal gains of 170,000 yuan and confiscate them.
Previously, the case was heard at the Dongcheng Court on January 12, which was the first "self-laundering" case in Beijing after the Criminal Law Amendment (XI) criminalized the act of "self-laundering".
The public prosecution alleged that between March 29 and 31, 2021, defendant Gu received RMB 170,000 from Hou (handled in a separate case) for the purchase of drugs, instructing Tao (handled in a separate case) to transport drugs. In order to conceal and conceal the source and nature of the proceeds of his crime of drug trafficking to Hou, Gu instructed Tao to provide a bank account under his name to help receive drug funds, and to withdraw the above-mentioned drug funds of 170,000 yuan through cash withdrawal at the bank counter.
At about 10:00 on April 1, 2021, the public security police seized Tao at the Beijing West Railway Station and seized four packets of white suspicious crystals (identified as containing methamphetamine, weighing 193.92 grams). On June 1, 2021, defendant Gu was arrested.
The public prosecution organ held that defendant Gu X's criminal facts of trafficking and transporting drugs were clear and the evidence was credible and sufficient, and that he should be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of selling or transporting drugs; defendant Gu X used other people's funds and accounts to conceal and conceal the source and nature of his proceeds from the crime of drug trafficking, the facts of the crime were clear, the evidence was indeed sufficient, and he should be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of money laundering.
The case was pronounced on January 17 at the Dongcheng Court.
The crime of money laundering provided for in Article 191 of the Criminal Law of the Mainland refers to the provision of fund accounts, the conversion of property into cash, financial instruments, and negotiable securities, the transfer of funds by transferring funds, financial instruments, and securities, the transfer of funds through transfer or other payment and settlement methods, the transfer of assets across borders, or the concealment of assets by other means of disguising, or by other means, in order to conceal or conceal the money, organized crimes of a triad nature, terrorist activities, smuggling crimes, corruption and bribery, crimes of undermining financial management order, and the proceeds of financial fraud crimes and the proceeds generated therefrom. Acts of concealing the origin and nature of the proceeds of crime and their proceeds.
The Criminal Law Amendment (XI) deletes the terms "knowingly being" and "assisting" in the original law, and includes "self-laundering" in the form of money laundering offences. Therefore, the money laundering act carried out by the predicate criminals themselves, that is, "self-laundering", is also established, which is also due to the need to combat such crimes and the governance of crimes.
【Source: Beijing News】
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