Research on the New Trend of the Money-Laundering Regulation

Research Project

Project/Area Number	14520076
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Criminal law
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	SAEKI Hitoshi The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools of Law and Politics, Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 教授 (10134438)
Project Period (FY)	2002 – 2003
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000) Fiscal Year 2003: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000) Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Keywords	money laundering / forfeiture
Research Abstract	Though the money-laundering regulation in Japan has been enlarged to many crimes, the UN Convention requires Japanese government to cover all major crimes. Furthermore it needs to enlarge its regulation to the non-financial activities to meet FATF new recommendations. The forfeiture provision of the Japanese law has big defect in relation to the victim's property and should be amended.