China News Service, Nanjing, October 19 (Wang Kun Zhou Mingyue) On the 19th, the Public Security Bureau of Jurong City, Jiangsu Province informed the public that the bureau, with the cooperation of the Criminal Police Detachment of Zhenjiang City Public Security Bureau and related professional departments, was in Jurong City. A community in the development zone arrested Liu Jiyuan, the fourth batch of A-level wanted fugitives from the Ministry of Public Security.

　　In order to severely crack down on criminal acts such as theft, theft and reselling of cultural relics, and to effectively protect the safety of national cultural relics, on September 1, 2020, the Ministry of Public Security once again released a list of 4 fugitives in major cultural relics crimes. Among them, the residence is located in Tianwang Town, Jurong, Zhenjiang Liu Jiyuan was impressively listed.

　　Liu Jiyuan, born in 1983, once ran an "ancient crafts shop" selling handicrafts, ceramics, calligraphy and painting in Nanjing for a long time. On the surface, the shop was engaged in the legal antique industry, but secretly reselling precious national cultural relics.

After the criminal gang succeeded in digging, they sold the cultural relics to traffickers for profit. The cultural relics changed hands many times, and each time brought huge amounts of ill-gotten wealth to the resellers.

A-level wanted criminal of the Ministry of Public Security was arrested in Jiangsu.

Photo courtesy of the police

　　In 2015, Liu Jiyuan and another person bought a batch of cultural relics from the “Theft of Ashoka Tower in Daixian County” from the previous family for 5.8 million yuan, and sold them to the next family for 23 million yuan for profiteering. The latter bought the cultural relics home, and later took the initiative to hand them over to the public security organs.

From 2015 to 2018, Liu Jiyuan illegally purchased relics, chimes, bronze tigers, golden coffins and silver coffins, gilt coffins, bronze mirrors and other national precious cultural relics for reselling from tomb robbers.

　　After the incident in 2018, the suspect Liu Jiyuan disappeared, as if the world had evaporated.

The task force of Shaanxi Province, Anhui Province and other places involved in the case went to Jurong many times to contact and coordinate the pursuit.

　　After the Criminal Police Detachment of the Zhenjiang Public Security Bureau and the Criminal Police Brigade of the Jurong Public Security Bureau set up a special pursuit team, they carried out large-scale investigations and visits around Liu Jiyuan’s "circle of relatives", "circle of friends" and "business circle" to find valuable clue.

However, Liu Jiyuan completely severed all contact with relatives and friends after the incident.

　　The hunting team moved to Shaanxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other provinces and cities, dispatched more than 200 police personnel, and visited thousands of people for investigation.

The effort paid off, and the police chased down the special group and found that Liu Jiyuan and the village sent Xiao Chen Moumou might have contact with him.

On the afternoon of October 16, 2020, under the close surveillance of the police, Chen drove the disguised man back to the Jurong community. When the disguised man got off the car, following an order, the police successfully captured Liu Jiyuan.

　　"September 16, 2018 is a day I will never forget in my life, and my escape begins on this day." Liu Jiyuan said with emotion after being captured.

According to Liu Jiyuan's account, he has been hiding in Wuxi, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, renting a house temporarily by using another person's ID card to obtain a mobile phone number.

　　"The police insist on zero tolerance for cultural relics crimes. All personnel involved in all links and chains of cultural relics crimes must be cracked down in accordance with the law and held for criminal responsibility." Pan Liangjun, head of the Criminal Police Brigade of Jurong City Public Security Bureau, said.

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