The upper reaches of money laundering crime, which is also called “the antecedent crime” or “the pre-crime”, is the specific type of crime greedy for profits, established by the criminal law to attack money laundering crime, which can seriously undermine the financial order. In view of our criminal legislation adopting the parallel mode of conviction on the two kinds of booty crime, which are money laundering crime and the crime of covering up and hiding the outcomes and the profits of some other crimes, distinguishing between the two standards into the legislation become an important basis for discrimination. For the upper reaches of money laundering crime, the Criminal Code and the "Criminal Law Amendment" adopt the direct expression way of category accusation, for a total of seven categories of 75 kinds of specific crimes. Under the listed specific category accusations by the Criminal Law, this article generalize the commonness of the upper reaches of money laundering crime, which has serious harm, the possibility of destructing the financial order, stressing the importance of method in crime prevention, etc, and as the basis of that, discuss the range of the upper reaches of money laundering crime in our Criminal Law should extend gradually to some other crimes, such as some crimes of endangering national security, serious crimes against socialist market economic order, some crimes of infringement upon citizens' rights of the person, in the development of future legislation.
money laundering crimeupper reaches crimeoverlap of law normsessential harmthe crime of covering up and hiding the outcomes and the profits of some other crimes.