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Is it illegal to collect remittances for overseas friends?
Legal analysis: there is no problem with normal remittance, but if it meets the constitutive requirements of money laundering crime, it constitutes money laundering crime, which needs to be determined according to specific circumstances.

Legal basis: Article 191 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) covers up and conceals the income, sources and nature of drug crimes, organized crimes of underworld nature, terrorist activities, smuggling crimes, corruption and bribery crimes, crimes of disrupting financial management order and financial fraud crimes. Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be confiscated and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or shall 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 fined: (1) providing a capital account; (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.