China News Service, April 25. According to the website of the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Public Security, together with the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, deployed a new round of special operations against cultural relics crimes across the country in August last year. Fugitives, fighting gangs, and handing over cultural relics, and comprehensively promoted special actions, and launched a fierce offensive against various cultural relic crimes, especially the theft of stone carvings in cave temples, the robbing of ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs, the theft of ancient buildings and their components, and the theft and destruction of revolutionary cultural relics. Significant results in phases.
Up to now, the public security organs across the country have cracked more than 1,360 criminal cases of various cultural relics, eliminated more than 280 criminal gangs, arrested more than 2,600 criminal suspects, and recovered more than 26,000 cultural relics, including 48 first-level cultural relics and second-level cultural relics. There are 143 cultural relics and more than 1,600 third-level cultural relics.
In the special action, public security agencies in Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Chongqing, Sichuan, Gansu and other places have continued to crack down on 20 major cultural relic crime cases listed under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Security since 2020.
The public security organs of Sichuan Province solved the accumulated case of cultural relics stolen from the Sichuan Provincial Library 16 years ago, and recovered the first-class cultural relic "The Eighteenth of Jin Guangming's Most Victorious King's Secret Artifact" and the third-class cultural relic "Fish Goose Collection".
The Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Bureau detected the "3.24" series of cases of theft of ancient tombs and reselling cultural relics in Lin'an, Hangzhou. 39 suspects were arrested, and a large number of extremely precious cultural relics such as secret color porcelain and golden jade belts were successfully recovered.
The public security organs of Fujian Province uncovered the "11.23" series of stolen marine sunken cultural relics in Zhangzhou, destroyed two professional criminal gangs, and recovered more than 1,500 various cultural relics, including more than 800 "sea fishing porcelain" from Longquan kilns in the Song Dynasty, which effectively protected them. The cultural relics of the "Maritime Silk Road" are safe.
The public security organs across the country are quick to solve the current case, tackle the accumulated cases, make every effort to arrest the fugitives, pursue the stolen cultural relics, and resolutely cut the chain of cultural relics crime.
All 10 fugitives of major cultural relic crimes publicly wanted by the Ministry of Public Security’s A-level arrest order have been arrested and brought to justice, which strongly deterred criminals.
In recent years, as the "cultural and cultural boom" has continued to heat up, and driven by huge illegal interests, criminals have frequently stolen and stolen cultural relics with a high incidence and various types. At the same time, cultural relic crimes are spreading rapidly on the Internet, showing increasingly professional, professional, and intelligent characteristics. Criminals conduct activities such as linking, addressing, and ganging through the Internet, looting, stealing, reselling, and smuggling cultural relics, seriously harming the country Cultural relics are safe. In response to the new trends and characteristics of current cultural relics criminal activities, the Ministry of Public Security has recently made special arrangements to require public security agencies in various places to fully promote the in-depth development of special operations, keep a close eye on the key links of cultural logistics, and continue to carry out special projects to pursue theft, excavation, theft, and down-sale investigations. , Selling stolen goods, smuggling, digging into the behind-the-scenes funders, realizing a full-chain attack, and striving to solve a batch of accumulated cases and catch a batch of key fugitives. Strengthen the cooperation with cultural relics and other departments, improve and improve the long-term mechanism, fight the overall battle and resolutely curb the trend of frequent occurrence of cultural relics crimes. The public security organs call on the general public to earnestly enhance the concept of the rule of law and cultural relic protection, actively report clues to cultural relics crimes, and jointly protect the safety of cultural relics.