Will there be penalties for medical device kickbacks?

Accepting kickbacks from medical devices may constitute a crime of accepting bribes by non-state staff, and those who constitute this crime will be sentenced. The first and second paragraphs of Article 163 of the Criminal Law stipulate that: employees of companies, enterprises or other units who take advantage of their positions to ask for or illegally accept other people's property and seek benefits for others, if the amount is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment and shall also be fined. Employees of companies, enterprises or other units who take advantage of their positions in economic exchanges and accept kickbacks and service fees in various names in violation of state regulations, which are owned by individuals, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Article 163 of the Criminal Law: Any employee of a company, enterprise or other unit who, by taking advantage of his position, extorts or illegally accepts other people's property and seeks benefits for others, if the amount is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment and shall also be fined. Personnel engaged in public service in state-owned companies, enterprises or other state-owned units and personnel appointed by state-owned companies, enterprises or other state-owned units to engage in public service in non-state-owned companies, enterprises or other units shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Articles 385 and 386 of this Law.