China News Service, Beijing, August 20 (Reporter Zhang Ziyang) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security on the 20th that since the Ministry of Public Security, together with the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, has deployed three consecutive years of special operations against cultural relics crimes, they have made heavy blows and continued efforts to commit crimes against cultural relics. Launched rounds of fierce offensives and achieved remarkable results. Up to now, public security organs across the country have cracked more than 3,480 cultural relic crimes, arrested more than 5,860 criminal suspects, destroyed more than 750 criminal gangs, and recovered more than 40,000 cultural relics, effectively curbing the trend of cultural relic crimes.
In the special operation, the Ministry of Public Security, together with the National Cultural Relics Administration, adopted methods such as listing supervision and joint supervision to organize and direct localities to solve major cultural relics crimes. The supervision and handling of the Ming Tombs stolen case and Shanxi Wenxi Hou brothers have been solved. The case involving black and stolen ancient tombs, the “8.25” series of robbing of Yinxu ruins in Anyang, Henan, the “9.26” robbing of ancient tombs in Zhuzhou, Hunan, the robbing of ancient cultural sites in Dahan Village in Tengzhou, Zaozhuang, Shandong, and the “1.16” series of looting in Fengxiang County, Baoji, Shaanxi There are 24 major cases of cultural relics, including the ancient cultural relics case, the series of robbery of ancient tombs in Huainan, Anhui, and the "3.15" robbery of ancient tombs in Dulan, Qinghai. The Ministry of Public Security has issued Class A warrants of the Ministry of Public Security 5 times, and publicly wanted 42 fugitives for major cultural relics crimes. Currently, 38 people have been arrested. More than 480 first-class cultural relics were recovered by public security organs in various places. Among them, 138 first-class cultural relics were recovered from the "3.24" series of stolen and reselling cultural relics in Lin'an, Zhejiang. The Shanghai public security agency successfully recovered a set of bronzes from Zeng Boke's father 8 The Shanxi Public Security Bureau recovered 5 national first-class cultural relics from Hong Kong.
In response to the current professional, professional, and intelligent characteristics of cultural relics crimes, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Cultural Relics have continuously improved the “joint long-term mechanism for combating and preventing cultural relics crimes” and launched an online platform for the release of information on stolen (lost) cultural relics in China (http:// bdww.ncha.gov.cn/), timely release information on stolen and lost cultural relics in our country to the public, and enter it into the Interpol stolen art database, to provide a basis for the legal recourse of China’s lost cultural relics overseas, and to combat cultural relics and crimes. Standardize cultural relics market management to provide support.
The Ministry of Public Security requires that public security organs at all levels should be responsible for the country, history, and future generations, give full play to the functions of public security organs, continue to carry out special operations to combat cultural relics crimes, further improve the long-term mechanism for combating cultural relics crimes, and implement them effectively. Responsibilities and tasks of combating cultural relics crime and protecting the safety of cultural relics. (Finish)