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Money Laundering, Death Sentence Laws Amended
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Landmark legislation on anti-money laundering and death sentences was approved by China's top legislature yesterday and is scheduled to take effect on January 1.

 

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress widened the definition of money laundering to include corruption and graft, violating financial management regulations and financial fraud.

 

Previously, the law identified only drug trafficking, organized or terrorist crime and smuggling as money laundering. This had led to criticism from analysts, calling the law's remit too narrow as efforts were ramped up to fight corruption across China.

 

The law demands that financial and some non-financial institutions maintain customer and transaction records and report any large transactions, believed to be suspect.

 

The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, and its provincial branch offices are authorized to investigate suspect fund transfers.

 

According to the China Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring and Analysis Center, set up in 2004, 683 suspected money laundering cases had been reported to police by the end of 2005. They involved 137.8 billion yuan (US$17.2 billion) and US$1 billion in funds.

 

The law, drafted as required by the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, also pledges to step up international coordination to combat global money laundering and exchange information with overseas anti-money laundering organizations.

 

"It is an important and essential step," said Zhang Xuechun, an economist with the Asian Development Bank's Resident Mission in China. "But how well it will be implemented depends on whether the government can put together an efficient inter-department coordination mechanism," he said.

 

Zhang Hongwei, director of the anti-money laundering department of the Ministry of Public Security, said the law would enhance cooperation between police departments and financial institutions.

 

The central bank last year transferred 2,790 suspected cases involving 32.78 billion yuan (US$4.1 billion) to the police, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange also referred 405 cases involving US$1.24 billion, according to a central bank report released in August.

 

Meanwhile, an amendment to the Organic Law of the People's Courts was adopted, requiring all death sentences to be reviewed and ratified by the Supreme People's Court, thus removing the right of provincial courts to pass the death sentence without supervision, a practice that had led to accusations of miscarriages of justice. .

 

Xiao Yang, president of the court, said that there would now be a clear distinction between the review of a death sentence and a verdict appeal. The former will be handled by the highest court while the latter remains within the remit provincial courts.

 

"It will give the defendants one more chance to have their opinions heard," Xiao said.

 

Chen Zhonglin, a law professor with the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, estimated that the number of death sentences in China would drop by at least 20 percent after the amendment of the law.

 

(Xinhua News Agency, China Daily October 31, 2006)

 

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