RECORDS AND REPORTS OF MONETARY INSTRUMENT TRANSACTIONS
Cal. PEN § 14166
California Statutes
Any person (
a) who willfully violates any provision of this title or any regulation adopted to implement
Section 14162, (
b) who, knowingly and with the intent either (1) to disguise the fact that a monetary instrument was derived from criminal activity or (2) to promote, manage, establish, carry on, or facilitate the promotion, management, establishment, or carrying on of any criminal activity, furnishes or provides to a financial institution or any officer, employee, or agent thereof or to the department, any false, inaccurate, or incomplete information or conceals a material fact in connection with a transaction for which a report is required to be filed pursuant to either
Section of this code or
Section of Title of the United States Code, or in connection with an exemption prescribed in
Section 14163, or (
c) who, knowingly and with the intent either (1) to disguise the fact that a monetary instrument was derived from criminal activity or (2) to promote, manage, establish, carry on, or facilitate the promotion, management, establishment, or carrying on of any criminal activity, conducts a monetary instrument transaction or series of transactions by or through one or more financial institutions as part of a scheme and with the intent to avoid the making or filing of a report required under either
Section of this code or
Section of Title of the United States Code, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or in the state prison, by a fine of not more than the greater of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) or twice the monetary value of the financial transaction or transactions, or by both that imprisonment and fine. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any violation of this
section as to each monetary instrument transaction or exemption constitutes a separate, punishable offense.