# 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 / Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds — 第一条 (Article 1) - Law: 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 (Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds), 平成十九年法律第二十二号 - English title "Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds": claude-opus-5-5 - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-1 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第一条（目的） — Purpose caption: machine translation, not official art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、犯罪による収益が組織的な犯罪を助長するために使用されるとともに、これが移転して事業活動に用いられることにより健全な経済活動に重大な悪影響を与えるものであること、及び犯罪による収益の移転が没収、追徴その他の手続によりこれを剝奪し、又は犯罪による被害の回復に充てることを困難にするものであることから、犯罪による収益の移転を防止すること（以下「犯罪による収益の移転防止」という。）が極めて重要であることに鑑み、特定事業者による顧客等の本人特定事項（第四条第一項第一号に規定する本人特定事項をいう。第三条第一項において同じ。）等の確認、取引記録等の保存、疑わしい取引の届出等の措置を講ずることにより、組織的な犯罪の処罰及び犯罪収益の規制等に関する法律（平成十一年法律第百三十六号。以下「組織的犯罪処罰法」という。）及び国際的な協力の下に規制薬物に係る不正行為を助長する行為等の防止を図るための麻薬及び向精神薬取締法等の特例等に関する法律（平成三年法律第九十四号。以下「麻薬特例法」という。）による措置と相まって、犯罪による収益の移転防止を図り、併せてテロリズムに対する資金供与の防止に関する国際条約等の的確な実施を確保し、もって国民生活の安全と平穏を確保するとともに、経済活動の健全な発展に寄与することを目的とする。 art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-1/par-1 The purpose of this Act is, in view of the fact that criminal proceeds are used to encourage organized crimes and, by being transferred and used in business activities, have a grave adverse effect on sound economic activities, and of the fact that the transfer of criminal proceeds makes it difficult to deprive offenders of them by confiscation, collection of equivalent value and other procedures, or to apply them to the recovery of damage caused by crimes, so that preventing the transfer of criminal proceeds (hereinafter referred to as "prevention of transfer of criminal proceeds") is extremely important, to achieve prevention of transfer of criminal proceeds by having specified business operators take measures such as verification of the identification data, etc. of customers, etc. (meaning the identification data prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i); the same applies in Article 3, paragraph (1)), preservation of transaction records, etc., and notification of suspicious transactions, in conjunction with the measures under the Act on Punishment of Organized Crimes and Control of Proceeds of Crime (Act No. 136 of 1999; hereinafter referred to as the "Organized Crime Punishment Act") and the Act Concerning Special Provisions for the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act, etc. and Other Matters for the Prevention of Activities Encouraging Illicit Conducts and Other Activities Involving Controlled Substances through International Cooperation (Act No. 94 of 1991; hereinafter referred to as the "Narcotics Special Provisions Act"), and also to ensure the precise implementation of international conventions and other instruments concerning the prevention of the financing of terrorism, thereby ensuring the safety and peace of national life and contributing to the sound development of economic activities. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-1/par-1: 第四条第一項第一号 → 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 第四条第一項第一号 (Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-4/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-4/par-1/item-1 - art-1/par-1: 第三条第一項 → 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/419AC0000000022/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-10-12 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/419AC0000000022/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch criminal-proceeds-act-20261011T155627-001, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 189 — 犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11