Take advantage of the auction house employee
The lot entrusted by the owner of the goods
Hire people to carry in and out of the country at a low price
Recently, an auction house employee in Beijing
Sentenced for smuggling a number of lots
The employee smuggled in the lot
There are two golden Buddhas of the Ming Dynasty
It is understood that this is the first case in Beijing
Sentenced for smuggling cultural relics
and successfully recovered cultural relics from Hong Kong, Mainland China
The picture shows the scene of the trial.
Lu is an employee of an auction house in Beijing
Since 2020
Repeated times will be subject to due legal procedures
Lots entering and leaving the country
Transporting entry and exit by entrusting smuggling of water passengers
And the legal customs declaration fees paid by the owner of the goods are enriched
Until the case was discovered in 2021
August 2021
Lu entrusts a water passenger to hire a truck driver (handled in a separate case)
A piece that has been auctioned by someone else in the form of entrainment
Baitai Lake is used for Shishanzi transportation into the country
He was caught red-handed by Shenzhen Customs
Audited
The goods evaded the amount of tax payable
RMB 128,000
Lake Hakutai Shi Sanko.
Police while investigating the case
Lu's earlier two smuggling acts were discovered
December 2020
Lu commissioned the same sailor
The hired truck driver carried two statues
The Golden Buddha of the Ming Dynasty was transported to Hong Kong
These two Buddha statues are:
Bronze gilt statue of Shakyamuni Buddha
Bronze gilt crown Shakyamuni Buddha statue
Identified
They are all cultural relics of the Ming Dynasty that are prohibited from leaving the country
It has distinctive characteristics of the times and high value of Buddhist research
The total value is $2.8 million
Two golden Buddhas of the Ming Dynasty smuggled by Lu.
February 2021
Lu took the same approach
Will be 5 ornamental stones
1 piece of Qing Qianlong floral pattern flower mouth plate
Transport from Hong Kong to the country
None of them have been declared to customs
Tax evasion totaled more than 156,000 yuan
Qing Qianlong floral pattern flower mouth plate.
In February 2023, Lu was arrested
Items such as cultural relics and ornamental stones
It was seized and seized in accordance with the law
Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court
After trial, it was found that the defendant Lu
Violation of national laws and regulations
Failure to declare to customs
Evading customs control
Transporting cultural relics that are prohibited from leaving the country out of the country
Valued at RMB 2.8 million
Transportation of ornamental stones and other general goods into the country
The amount of tax payable was more than 284,000 yuan
Their acts have been constituted separately
The crime of smuggling cultural relics and smuggling ordinary goods
Lu was able to confess truthfully
The main facts of their own crimes
His relatives took the initiative to pay on his behalf
Evasion of taxes and fines due
The artifacts involved and most of the goods
Seized and seized
Lu therefore has a statutory or discretionary decision
Mitigating circumstances
Eventually, the Beijing Fourth Intermediate Court
For the crime of smuggling cultural relics
Lu was sentenced to 5 years in prison
and a fine of 50,000 yuan
Guilty of smuggling general goods
Lu was sentenced to 1 year in prison
and a fine of 300,000 yuan
It was decided to enforce the sentence of 5 years and 6 months in prison
A fine of 350,000 yuan was imposed
Lu appealed
The Beijing High People's Court upheld the original verdict in the second instance
The smuggling of antiquities is a desecration of history
What is stolen is the memory of civilization
It is a disservice to the nation
Involved in smuggling and tax evasion
will definitely bear the corresponding legal responsibility
Don't take risks because of luck
Source: Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court