Many people have been sentenced!, Widely illegally reselling cultural relics from the Luobupo Site
On August 26th, the reporter learned from the Hami Railway Transport Court in Xinjiang that several defendants in this case have been sentenced to prison for illegally entering key cultural relics protection areas of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region multiple times and illegally reselling cultural relics unearthed from the ancient Luolan site in Luobupo.
From September 2019 to January 2020, Huo bought, sold, and stored 6 national second level cultural relics, and 23 national third level cultural relics. He also sold the purchased 2 national third level cultural relics to others for profit through mobile auction software.
From June 2019 to June 2020, Zhang, Ma, Lei, Lei, and Yuan illegally entered the Luobupo Nature Reserve multiple times and illegally obtained multiple cultural relics prohibited by the state for operation. Huo purchased over a hundred pieces of smashing tools, stone tools, and other artifacts unearthed from the ancient Luolan site in Luobupo from Yi, Zhang, Ma, Ma, Sun, Lei, Yuan, Ai, and A at varying prices.
After appraisal, it involves multiple cultural relics prohibited by the state for operation. Among them, 3 national second level cultural relics and 8 national third level cultural relics were bought and sold according to certain laws and regulations; Zhang bought, sold, and stored 24 national third level cultural relics; Lei and Ma bought and stored 1 national second level cultural relic, and bought and stored 5 national third level cultural relics; Ma bought and sold one national second level cultural relic; Ma Mouqing bought, sold, and stored 2 national second level cultural relics, and bought, sold, and stored 6 national third level cultural relics; Sun bought and sold 2 national third level cultural relics; Lei Mouzhi bought, sold, and stored 10 national third level cultural relics; Yuan bought, sold, and stored three national third level cultural relics; A bought and sold one national third level cultural relic.
1180 other cultural relics prohibited from operation by the state were also seized from the business premises of the above-mentioned personnel.
After hearing this case, the Hami Railway Transport Court found that Huo, Yi, Zhang, Ma Qing, Lei, Ma Ying, Lei Gang, and Ma all participated in the sale of cultural relics prohibited by the state for the purpose of seeking illegal benefits, and the circumstances were particularly serious; Sun, Yuan, and A participated in the sale of cultural relics prohibited by the state for the purpose of seeking illegal benefits. The circumstances were serious, and their behavior constituted the crime of selling cultural relics. Huo was sentenced to six years in prison and fined RMB 50000. Huo's illegal gains of RMB 3306 were recovered and turned over to the national treasury; Yi, Zhang, Ma Qing, Lei, Ma Ying, Lei Gang, Ma Quan, Sun, and Yuan were respectively sentenced to three years to six months in prison, suspended for four years to one year, and fined between 8000 and 2000 yuan; The recovery of illegal gains ranges from 6500 yuan to 1000 yuan.
1180 cultural relics that have been seized and confiscated in accordance with the law shall be handed over to the national treasury by the seizure unit. After the verdict was pronounced, Huo and others did not appeal. The judgment has taken effect.
Judge's statement:
The location of this case is located in the Luobupo Nature Reserve in the southeast of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. There are multiple undeveloped key cultural relics protection areas, such as Xiaohe Cemetery and Loulan Ancient City Site, which contain a large number of precious cultural relics and sites with significant social, historical, and cultural value. Yi and others violated national cultural relics protection regulations and illegally entered the Lop Nur Nature Reserve multiple times for the purpose of illegal possession. They illegally obtained cultural relics prohibited by the state and sold them to Huo in the spontaneously formed cultural relics market in the local area, seriously damaging national interests and damaging the geographical and cultural original appearance of the reserve.
The verdict of this case serves as a warning and education to curb the local destruction of the Loulan site and the crime of reselling cultural relics. It also provides a basis and clues for blocking loopholes in regional cultural relic protection work and strengthening the supervision of the cultural relic market, which has a positive effect on the protection of cultural relics and cultural relics in the region.
