Those who seek illegal benefits by exchanging foreign currencies for others and hire others to participate in the illegal trading of foreign currencies shall be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of illegal business operation.

According to the relevant provisions of the Provisions of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security on the Prosecution Standards of Economic Crime Cases, if illegal foreign exchange business is suspected of one of the following circumstances, it shall be prosecuted:

(1) buying and selling foreign exchange outside designated foreign exchange banks and China Foreign Exchange Trading Center and its sub-centers, with an amount of more than USD 200,000, or with an illegal income of more than RMB 50,000;

(2) A company, enterprise or other unit, in violation of the relevant provisions on foreign trade agency business, fraudulently buys foreign exchange from a designated foreign exchange bank for others by illegal means, or knowingly forges or alters documents or commercial documents, the amount of which is more than 5 million US dollars, or the illegal income is more than 500,000 yuan;

(3) The amount of foreign exchange fraudulently purchased through intermediary is more than USD 6,543.8+0,000, or the illegal income is more than RMB 6,543.8+0,000.