Legal basis: Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in the Trial of Criminal Cases of Cheating and Illegal Trading in Foreign Exchange.
Article 2 Whoever forges, alters or buys or sells customs declarations, import certificates, approval documents of foreign exchange management agencies, etc. Or buying forged or altered above-mentioned certificates, shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 280 of the Criminal Law.
Article 3 Whoever buys or sells foreign exchange outside the designated foreign exchange banks, China Foreign Exchange Trading Center and its sub-centers and disrupts the order of the financial market shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Item (3) of Article 225 of the Criminal Law:
(a) illegal trading of foreign exchange of more than two hundred thousand dollars;
(two) the illegal income of more than fifty thousand yuan.
Article 4 Any company, enterprise or other unit that, in violation of the provisions on foreign trade agency business, fraudulently purchases foreign exchange from designated foreign exchange banks for others by illegal means or knowing forged or altered documents or commercial documents, with an amount of more than US$ 5 million or an illegal income of more than 500,000 yuan, shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Item (3) of Article 225 of the Criminal Law.
Whoever cheats100000 USD or gains100000 RMB shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Item (3) of Article 225 of the Criminal Law.