If a qualified consumer organization's officer, employee, or expert advisor receives or has a third party (including the qualified consumer organization) receive money or any other financial benefit, in the form of a contribution or donation or under any other name, from a person against which a demand for injunction has been filed by the qualified consumer organization in consideration of not exercising or not having exercised the right to demand an injunction, of waiving or having waived the right to demand an injunction, of entering or having entered into a settlement with the other party in connection with a demand for injunction, or of terminating or having terminated the lawsuit or other proceedings involving a demand for injunction on other grounds, that officer, employee, or expert advisor is subject to imprisonment for not more than 3 years or to a fine of not more than three million yen.
The preceding paragraph also applies to a person providing the benefit referred to in that paragraph.
In the case as referred to in paragraph (1), the financial benefit received by the offender or by a third party with knowledge of the circumstances is confiscated. If all or part of the financial benefit may not be confiscated, an equivalent value is collected.
第一項の場合において、犯人又は情を知った第三者が受けた財産上の利益は、没収する。その全部又は一部を没収することができないときは、その価額を追徴する。
Provisions on the crimes referred to in paragraph (1) also apply to a person committing a crime as referred to in that paragraph outside Japan.
第一項の罪は、日本国外においてこれらの罪を犯した者にも適用する。
The crime referred to in paragraph (2) is governed by Article 2 of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907).
第二項の罪は、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）第二条の例に従う。