"Deeply digging behind the scenes", multiple departments have issued documents to fight cultural relics crime network

China News Agency, Beijing, September 5th. In order to effectively prevent cracking down on cultural relics, many departments of the Supreme People's Court of China jointly issued judicial opinions on the 5th. Wait for the entire cultural relic crime network to conduct a crackdown, dig deep into the behind -the -scenes gold owner, cut off the chain of cultural relics crimes.

"Opinions on handling criminal cases such as obstructing cultural relics management" are jointly formulated by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Cultural Relics Bureau, including punishing cultural relics crimes in accordance with the law, the identification and appraisal of cultural relics involved in the case, the jurisdiction of cultural relic crime case jurisdiction Wait.

According to statistics, from 2017 to 2021, a total of 3058 new cases of various types of criminal cases were collected in the first instance of the national courts. Among them, the proportion of ancient cultural sites and criminal cases of ancient cultural sites and tombs accounted for more than 80%. The relevant person in charge of the Supreme People's Court of the Supreme People's Court said that in practice, there are many attempts to stole the ancient cultural sites and the attempts of ancient tombs, and the harm cannot be ignored.

The opinions issued this time further clarified the identification of related impedance cultural relics management behaviors. For example, cases should be held criminally responsible for the case of attempts to stole the targets with ancient cultural sites that have been determined to be a national key cultural relics, provincial cultural relics protection units, and ancient tombs.

In addition, criminal gangs mainly use destructive means to theft of non -mobile cultural relics, such as a Buddha head in the cut grotto. However, because the local cultural relic itself or the value is low or the value is severely damaged, it cannot be determined by the level or value, which can easily lead the perpetrator to fail to get an adaptive punishment in the end.

The latest opinion stipulates that the theft is implemented for "building components, murals, sculptures, stone carvings, etc. in key cultural relics protection units, provincial cultural relics protection units, and damage to the history, art, and scientific value of cultural relics." Criminal responsibility for theft of non -moving cultural relics should be held criminally responsible.

This opinion also proposes that although it has not participated in the implementation of the crime, it is the main criminal that can be identified as the main criminals in accordance with the law as behind the scenes, organizations, commands, planning, funding, and instigators. At the same time, if the records of illegal cultural relics or the pre -crime staff and state staff shall be imposed on crimes, they may be punished as appropriate.

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