"Two highs and one bureau" jointly issued a document to severely punish cultural relics crimes in accordance with the law

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 5 (Reporter Qi Qi, Luosha) The Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration of Cultural Relics jointly issued some issues on handling criminal cases such as obstructing cultural relics management. Opinions have provided regulations on the stolen ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs, and using destructive means to theft of non -moving cultural relics, underground cultural relics trading, etc., and severely punish cultural relics crimes in accordance with the law.

It is reported that in August 2020, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Cultural Relics deployed a special operation of cracking down on cultural relics crimes. Up to now, more than 3950 cases of various types of cultural relics crimes were cracked, more than 790 criminal gangs were killed, more than 8,420 criminal suspects were arrested, and 82,800 cultural relics were recovered, of which 6,477 precious cultural relics were in the country.

The excavation of ancient cultural sites and tombs is the focus and difficulty of cracking down on cultural relic crimes. Opinions further clarify the scope of "ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs", stipulate that ancient cultural ruins and ancient tombs and tombs such as ancient buildings, grottoes and temples, etc., should also be identified as the crime of digging ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs. Crime object. At the same time, the opinions are clear that the criminal responsibility shall be investigated for cases of attempts to be discovered as a national cultural relics protection unit, provincial cultural relics protection units, and ancient tombs as the stealing target.

It is reported that in practice, criminals often use destructive means to theft of non -mobile cultural relics, such as a Buddha head in the cut grotto. Opinions stipulate this. For the theft of theft of building components, murals, sculptures, stone carvings, etc. in the national key cultural relics protection units and provincial cultural relics protection units, and damage the history, art, and scientific value of cultural relics ontology, "and other destructive means Criminal responsibility for theft of non -moving cultural relics shall be held criminally responsible.

In response to the issue of underground cultural relics transactions, the opinions of the opinions of the "knowing" in the crime of crimes and the "profit -based" identification in the crime of selling cultural relics made guidelines. In addition, in order to further clarify the jurisdiction of the case of cultural relic crimes, the opinions stipulated that the criminal place of cultural relic crimes includes both tool preparation, exploration, and stolen land, as well as the actual obtained, hidden land, land, and storage of the cultural relics involved in the case involved in the case. Land, etc. to solve the jurisdiction of "things and cases" in practice.

[Editor in charge: Zhao Yang]

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