Chinanews.com, June 10th. At the press conference of the Ministry of Public Security held today, talking about the current basic situation and characteristics of cultural relic crimes, Zheng Xiang, the second-level inspector of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, said that cultural relic crimes are professional and intelligent. The trend is obvious; the trend of spreading to the Internet is relatively obvious, and an underground black industry chain has been formed.
Zheng Xiang said that in recent years, the public security organs have severely cracked down on cultural relics crimes in accordance with the law, and the momentum of cultural relic crimes has been curbed. However, driven by huge illegal interests, there are still criminal gangs committing crimes and criminal suspects are still taking risks. The security situation of cultural relics is not tolerable. optimism.
One is that major cultural relic crimes have occurred from time to time.
my country’s immovable cultural relics are large in number and widely distributed. Many ancient ruins, ancient tombs, cave temples, etc. are located in remote areas. The security work is relatively difficult. The current popularity of private collections is unabated, and there are a lot of illegal transactions and illegal collections of cultural relics. Cultural relics criminals are still waiting for opportunities to commit crimes, committing crimes such as theft, excavation and theft, and even reaching out to national and provincial key cultural relics protection units.
Since the new round of special operations launched in August last year, a large number of precious cultural relics have been recovered, among which 56 are first-class cultural relics, which have high historical, artistic and scientific value.
Second, there is an obvious trend towards professionalism and intelligence in cultural relic crimes.
Judging from the crackdown in recent years, a large number of criminal suspects are mostly repeat offenders and recidivists, some are tomb thieves who enter the palace and the third palace, and some are cultural relic dealers who have been engaged in the crime of reselling cultural relics for a long time. The awareness of investigation is constantly improving, and the means of committing crimes are constantly escalating, which brings challenges to the crackdown by public security organs.
Third, the trend of cultural relic crimes spreading to the Internet is relatively obvious.
Judging from the cases of cultural relics detected in recent years, more and more criminals exchange information on ancient tombs, purchase criminal tools, use social networking platforms to invite gangs to commit crimes, identify cultural relics online, conduct illegal transactions, and the threshold for cultural relic crimes continues Decrease, criminal subjects are becoming more and more diverse, and the degree of harm to the safety of cultural relics is increasing.
Fourth, cultural relic crimes have formed an underground black industrial chain.
In the current cultural relics crime chain, there are not only the funders behind the scenes, the technicians who explore the tombs, the organizers of the criminal excavation, the tomb thieves who are responsible for the excavation, but also the “brokers” who help the stolen cultural relics, the cultural relic dealers who are responsible for reselling. There are transnational cross-border criminal gangs that specialize in smuggling cultural relics out of the country or "washing white" cultural relics back into the country. Together, they have formed a black industrial chain of "exploration, excavation, theft, sale, and smuggling".
Zheng Xiang pointed out that the new characteristics and new trends of cultural relic crimes have put forward new requirements and challenges for the safety of cultural relics and combating cultural relics crimes. Public security agencies are also constantly innovating mechanisms and methods to improve the technological content of combating cultural relics crimes. , Continuously improve the combat capability and level, and resolutely do a good job in the protection of cultural relics.