to the provisions of the preceding paragraph or this paragraph and has accepted the re-entrustment of a payment from a foreign country to Japan or a payment from a foreign country to another foreign country, and when the said specified business operator intends to re-entrust the said payment to another specified business operator or an exchange dealer residing in a foreign country, the said specified business operator shall notify about the matters pertaining to the notification concerned (limited to the matters specified by an ordinance of the competent ministries).

Article 11 (Dissemination of Information, etc. to Investigative Agencies, etc.)

(1) When the National Public Safety Commission finds that the matters pertaining to a report of suspicious transactions, information disseminated by foreign agencies which conduct duties equivalent to duties of the National Public Safety Commission prescribed in Article 9, this Article and the following Article, and the collected and analyzed results thereof (hereinafter referred to as "information on suspicious transactions") will contribute to the investigation into criminal cases or inquiry into irregularities conducted by public prosecutors, assistant officers to prosecutors, or judicial police officials, or tax collectors, customs officers, local tax officials, or personnel of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (hereinafter referred to as "public prosecutors, etc." in this Article) with regard to crimes listed in Article 2, paragraph 2, item (i), (a) or (b) or Article 2, paragraph 2, item (ii) (d) of the Organized Crime Punishment Act, crimes set forth in Article 10, paragraph 3 or Article 11 of the Organized Crime Punishment Act, crimes listed in each item of Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Narcotics, etc., or crimes set forth in Article 6 or Article 7 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Narcotics, etc., the Commission shall disseminate such information to public prosecutors, etc.

(2) Public prosecutors, etc. may, when they find it necessary for the investigation into criminal cases or inquiry into irregularities pertaining to crimes prescribed in the preceding paragraph, request the National Public Safety Commission for the inspection or copying of the record of information on suspicious transactions or the delivery of copies thereof.

Article 12 (Dissemination of Information to Foreign Agencies)

(1) The National Public Safety Commission may disseminate to foreign agencies prescribed in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article information on suspicious transactions which it finds will contribute to the performance of their duties (limited to those equivalent to the duties of the National Public Safety Commission prescribed in Article 9, the preceding Article and this Article; the same shall apply in the following paragraph).

(2) When disseminating information on suspicious transactions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, appropriate measures shall be taken so that the said information on suspicious transactions shall not be used for other purposes than for performing the duties of foreign agencies prescribed in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article and shall not be used for the investigation into criminal cases (limited to cases where the fact of a crime has already been specified) or inquiries (hereinafter referred to as "investigation, etc." in this Article) in foreign countries without the consent under the following paragraph.

(3) The National Public Safety Commission may, having received a request from a foreign country, give consent for the information on suspicious transactions which it has provided pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 1 to be used for the investigation into criminal cases pertaining to the said request, except for cases falling under any of the following items:

(i) When a crime subject to the investigation into criminal cases pertaining to the said request is a political crime, or when it is found that the said request has been made for the purpose of conducting an investigation into a political crime

(ii) When the act, which constitute the crime subject to the investigation into criminal cases pertaining to the said request, does not constitute a crime under Japanese laws and regulations had it been conducted in Japan, except as otherwise specified in international agreements (which means international agreements concerning the provision of information on suspicious transactions under paragraph 1; the same shall apply in paragraph 5)

(iii) When the requesting country has not insured that it will accept a similar request from Japan

(4) The National Public Safety Commission shall, before giving the consent set forth in the preceding paragraph, obtain confirmation from the Minister of Justice that the request does not fall under items (i) and (ii) of the same paragraph and confirmation from the Minister of Foreign Affairs that the request does not fall under item (iii) of the same paragraph.

(5) When the dissemination of information on suspicious transactions under paragraph 1 has been conducted based on international agreements which specify the scope of the investigation into criminal cases in foreign countries for which information on sus-