# List of Reference Cases of Suspicious Transaction Report for Dealers of Secondhand Jewels and Precious metals

## 1 General Warning

As listed from 2 to 4 below, they are examples of transaction to which dealers of secondhand jewels and precious metals, 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 need to pay attention that it should be the subject to make report, even the transaction doesn't apply the example.

### 2. The cases when buying from the customer

(1) Cases where the same person sells a large amount of jewels, precious metals or their products within a short period of time;

(2) Cases where the same person repeats sales of the same type of jewels, precious metals or their products within a short period of time;

(3) Cases where a customer sells jewels, precious metals or their products with an excessively high value relative to his or her income, assets or the like;

(4) Cases where there is doubt as to whether jewels, precious metals or their products which a customer sells is owned by the customer (e.g., a man seeks to sell a large amount of jewelry, precious metal or the like for women);

(5) Cases where a customer hurries to sell and is willing to sell at a price much lower than the market price;

(6) Cases where you can imagine from the words and behavior of a customer that he or she is selling a large amount of jewels, precious metals or their products in many shops or is going to do so.

## 3 The cases when selling to the customer

(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 which 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

## 4 The other cases

(1) The case, there is 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 insists 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 confirmed to the said legal person(Name of the legal person, address)

(5) A transaction involving a customer who refuses to provide explanations and submit documents when he/she requested to do so for identification of the actual owner 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