If you don't know, helping others to launder money does not constitute a crime and will not be sentenced. The crime of money laundering refers to the act of providing a fund account, helping to convert property into cash or financial bills, helping to transfer funds through transfer settlement, helping to remit funds abroad, and concealing the nature and source of illegal income and its income in other ways, knowing that it is the illegal income of drug crimes, organized crimes of underworld nature and smuggling crimes. The crime of money laundering is intentional. If you don't know anything and don't participate in the crime, it doesn't constitute a crime and you don't need to bear criminal responsibility. But whether it constitutes a crime depends on the law, facts and evidence. However, if a natural person knowingly helps others to launder money, which constitutes a crime of money laundering, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If a unit commits the crime of money laundering, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. For severe cases:

1, for example, the money laundering amount is more than 500,000 yuan; Repeated money laundering activities;

2. Individuals take money laundering as their business, or units take money laundering as their main business. Some money launderers use their income for legal or illegal investments, operations, savings, loans and other economic benefits, such as dividends from investments, income from operations, fruits of savings, profits from loans and foreign exchange fees. Money laundering may also lead to some duty crimes;

3. For example, some state employees abuse the previous measures for illegitimate interests and infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of the people.

legal ground

Article 191 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) The crime of money laundering in the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) refers to concealing and concealing the proceeds from drug crimes, organized crimes of underworld nature, terrorist activities, smuggling crimes, crimes of corruption and bribery, crimes of disrupting financial management order, and crimes of financial fraud, as well as the source and nature of the generated proceeds. In case of any of the following acts, the above-mentioned criminal proceeds and proceeds shall be confiscated and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined:

(1) Providing capital accounts;

(2) Converting property into cash, financial bills or securities;

(3) Transferring funds by transfer or other payment and settlement methods;

(4) Cross-border transfer of assets;

(5) concealing or disguising the source and nature of the proceeds of crime and their proceeds by other means. If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.