# List of Reference Cases of Suspicious Transaction report in dealers of Jewel and Precious metal and stones

## 1 General Warning

Listed bellows are example of transaction to which dealers of jewel and precious metals and stones, when fulfilling the obligation for reporting of suspicious transaction as specified by Article 9 of "Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds", should pay special attention as a case that may constitute a suspicious transaction.

It should be decided and taken into consideration such as the attribution of the customers, the situation of the transaction, among the said dealers by themselves that each concrete transaction will be suspicious transaction or not.

So, these examples shall be referred in daily transaction to find or extract suspicious transaction, but not all cases are applicable to the suspicious transaction.

On the other hand, if the dealers recognize the transaction as suspicious transaction, they should report the fact, even the transaction doesn't apply the example.

More, provided, however, that this shall not apply to being rational reason.

2 The cases paying attention to the way of using the cash

(1) The case of purchase with a great deal of money

(2) The case of purchase with a great deal of money, with frequent purchases of small deal of money

(3) The case of purchase with a great deal of money doesn't meet customer's income and property

(4) Casual customers who come to the branch office together but request processing of a large amount of cash transaction at different counters

(5) The case of purchase by whom he/she takes not much interest in the design of items, though he/she purchases a great deal of jewels and precious stones in a short time

## 3 The other cases

(1) The case, there are some suspicious of false identification card presented by customer

(2) The transaction involving a member of an organized crime group or a person associated therewith

(3) Cases where the customer insist the secrecy of the transaction unnaturally and a transaction involving a customer who tries to prevent the said business operator from reporting suspicious transaction by using force or by paying bribes

(4) The case of the person who is a member of a legal person which is suspicious of a paper company, or suspicious of false information related with customer identification when confirm the said legal person

(5) A transaction involving a customer who refuses to provide explanations and submit documents when requested to do so for identification of the actual beneficiary due to doubt as to whether the customer is acting on his/her own behalf.

(6) A transaction whose circumstances are recognized by employees of the said business operators as unnatural in light of their knowledge and experiences and a transaction involving a customer whose attitude or behavior is recognized as unnatural in light thereof

(7) The case of transactions regarding which the Japan Financial Intelligence Center $ (*) $ and other external organizations have inquired or notified due to the possibility of involving criminal profit

(*) The Japan Financial Intelligence Center (JAFIC) is attached to the Organized Crime Control Department, Criminal Investigation Bureau of the National Police Agency