In September, 1998, with the support and cooperation of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Government, a joint working group led by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection went to Zhanjiang to carry out case investigation. By May, 1999, the case of smuggling and bribery in Zhanjiang was basically found out. 1from the beginning of 1996 to1September 1998, smuggling gangs led by Li Shen, Chunhua Lin, Chen Lisheng and others smuggled goods such as automobiles, steel products and refined oil, with a case value of 1 10 billion yuan, and evaded the state tax revenue of 6.2 billion yuan. During the handling of the case, the working group seized about 4.7 billion yuan of stolen money and real estate of the people involved. Encouraged by the policy, 163 people from customs, port affairs, commodity inspection and other departments and units have voluntarily surrendered themselves to explain the problem and handed in the amount of15.87 million yuan for violation of law and discipline. In this case, more than 65,438+030 smugglers and public officials involved were arrested, and 80 people were tried in public in early June and early September respectively. Li Shen, Zhang Yi, Chunhua Lin and Deng Chong 'an, the leaders of smuggling gangs, Cao Xiukang, former director of Zhanjiang Customs, and Zhu Xiangcheng, former director of the investigation department, were sentenced to death according to law; Chen Tongqing, former secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Committee, Yang Hunqing, former deputy mayor, Yang, former director of Maoming Customs, former director of Zhanjiang Frontier Branch, former political commissar, and leaders and backbones of smuggling gangs, Jiang Liansheng, Li Yong and Lin were sentenced to death with a two-year suspension; Other smugglers were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, and more than 200 public officials involved in the case were also severely dealt with by party discipline and political discipline. The investigation and handling of the extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang has aroused strong repercussions at home and abroad.
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Paragraph 153 1
Crime of Smuggling Ordinary Goods and Articles Whoever smuggles goods and articles other than those specified in Articles 151, 152 and 347 of this Law shall be punished in accordance with the following provisions according to the seriousness of the case:
(1) Whoever smuggles goods and articles and evades a large amount of tax payable, or who has been given a second administrative punishment for smuggling within one year and smuggled again, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable.
(2) Whoever smuggles goods and articles and evades the tax payable is huge or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable.
(3) Whoever smuggles goods or articles and evades the tax payable is especially huge or has other especially serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable or confiscated of property.
If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years. Those who smuggle many times without treatment shall be punished according to the accumulated tax payable on smuggled goods and articles.