On June 5438+04, Hong Kong Customs announced that it had successfully detected a suspected money laundering case in a law enforcement operation codenamed "Hunting Shadows". The case involved more than HK$ 3 billion in money of unknown origin, the highest amount ever handled by the Customs and Excise Department.
Wu Weijun, Senior Superintendent of the Organized Crime Bureau of the Customs and Excise Department, told the media that six local people, including four men and two women, aged between 25 and 62, were arrested during the operation. The five of them belong to the same family. They are suspected to have opened more than 65,438+000 personal bank accounts since 2065,438+08, and handled more than 6,000 unusually large transactions involving more than 3 billion Hong Kong dollars from unknown sources.
Nonsense, among those arrested, there is also a licensee of a local change shop. The customs seized a large number of checkbooks, company business registration certificates, bank bills and other evidence in his change shop, and suspected that many companies and unknown people used the change shop as a cover to launder money to avoid customs supervision.
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Money laundering is a serious crime;
As an international financial center, Hong Kong has low tax rates, perfect banking services and no currency or foreign exchange controls. Every day, funds from all over the world come in and out of the market.
Therefore, many cross-border criminal groups will aim at this feature, use Hong Kong's unique financial environment to hide and transfer funds and criminal proceeds, and even use Hong Kong as a base and "transit station" for money laundering, and then "bleach" criminal funds and remit them abroad.
The Customs and Excise Department reiterated that money laundering is a serious crime and the maximum penalty is a fine of HK$ 5 million and imprisonment of 65,438+04 years. Hu reminded the public not to open a bank account for others or lend it to others, lest the account be used for illegal purposes.
China Youth Network-Hong Kong Customs cracked the biggest money laundering case involving HK$ 3 billion in history and arrested 6 people.