Article 8Notification of Suspicious Transactions, etc.

②A specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph (2), items (xlvii) through (xlix) must, with regard to agency, etc. for specified mandated acts, determine whether there is a suspicion that property received in that agency, etc. for specified mandated acts is criminal proceeds, or that the customer, etc. is committing, in relation to that agency, etc. for specified mandated acts, an act constituting the offense under Article 10 of the Organized Crime Punishment Act or the offense under Article 6 of the Narcotics Special Provisions Act, and if it finds that there is such a suspicion, must promptly notify the administrative agency of the matters specified by Cabinet Order, as provided by Cabinet Order. However, this does not apply if those matters include matters that must not be divulged under the provisions of the Act specified in the respective items below in accordance with the category of specified business operator listed in the respective items.

③The determination under the preceding two paragraphs must be made in light of the results of the verification at the time of transaction pertaining to the transaction under paragraph (1) or the agency, etc. for specified mandated acts under the preceding paragraph (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "transaction, etc."), the mode of that transaction, etc. and other circumstances, and the contents of the criminal proceeds transfer risk assessment report prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (3), and by a method of checking whether there is anything suspicious about that transaction, etc. in accordance with the items specified by order of the competent ministry, or by another method specified by order of the competent ministry.

④A specified business operator (including its officers and employees) must not divulge the fact that it is about to make or has made a notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) (hereinafter referred to as a "suspicious transaction report") to the customer, etc. pertaining to that suspicious transaction report or to a person related to that person.

⑤When an administrative agency (limited to a prefectural governor or a Prefectural Public Safety Commission) has received a suspicious transaction report, it is to promptly notify the competent minister of the matters pertaining to that suspicious transaction report.

⑥When an administrative agency (excluding a prefectural governor and a Prefectural Public Safety Commission) or the competent minister prescribed in the preceding paragraph (excluding the National Public Safety Commission) has received a suspicious transaction report or a notification under that paragraph, it is to promptly notify the National Public Safety Commission of the matters pertaining to that suspicious transaction report or notification.