Receiving medical equipment kickbacks will be sentenced

The receipt of medical equipment kickbacks may constitute the crime of bribery of non-state workers. Companies, enterprises or other units of the staff use the convenience of their positions, soliciting other people's property or illegal acceptance of other people's property, in order to seek benefits for others, the amount of larger, shall be sentenced to less than five years of fixed-term imprisonment or detention; the amount of a huge, shall be sentenced to more than five years of fixed-term imprisonment, and may be sentenced to confiscation of property. A staff member of a company, enterprise or other unit who, in the course of an economic transaction, takes advantage of the convenience of his position and, in violation of state regulations, accepts kickbacks or fees of various kinds under various names for his own personal benefit shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Persons engaged in official duties in state-owned companies, enterprises or other state-owned units and persons appointed by state-owned companies, enterprises or other state-owned units to engage in official duties in non-state-owned companies, enterprises and other units who commit the acts in the preceding two paragraphs shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Articles 385 and 386 of the Criminal Law.

Legal basis

The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 225 Violation of state regulations, one of the following acts of illegal business operation, disrupting the market order, and the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to not more than five years' fixed-term imprisonment or detention, and shall be punished by or imposed with a fine not less than double and not more than five times of the unlawful income;. The circumstances are particularly serious, shall be sentenced to not less than five years of fixed-term imprisonment, and shall be sentenced to not less than double the illegal income of not less than five times the fine or confiscation of property:

(1) unauthorized operation of laws and administrative regulations of monopoly, monopoly goods or other restrictions on the sale of goods;

(2) the sale and purchase of import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin, as well as other laws and administrative regulations of the business license or approval documents;

(2) trading in import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin, as well as other laws and administrative regulations of business licenses or approval documents;

(c) without the approval of the relevant state authorities to illegally operate securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in funds payment and settlement business;

(d) other serious disruption of the market order of illegal business practices.