Legal basis: Article 270 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). Whoever illegally occupies the property kept by others and refuses to return it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, criminal detention or a fine; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than two years but not more than five years and shall also be fined. Whoever illegally takes forgetting things and buried objects of others for himself and refuses to hand them over shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.