Cover up the consequences of crime:
1, subject to criminal punishment: Concealing or concealing a crime itself is an illegal and criminal act, so if it is discovered, it will face criminal punishment and may be sentenced or fined.
2. Increased costs: If criminal suspects or defendants need to hire lawyers to help them defend themselves and cover up evidence, then they may need to pay higher lawyer fees.
3. Reputation damage: The act of concealing a crime often affects the reputation and credibility of an individual or an organization, causing serious losses to an individual or a company.
4. Self-safety is threatened: if the act of concealing a crime involves the person involved or other illegal elements, it may pose a threat to his personal safety.
Concealing and concealing the proceeds of crime and the income generated by it, specifically including the following situations:
1, resulting in a total income of more than100000 yuan;
2, income more than ten times, or more than three times and the total value reached more than fifty thousand yuan;
3, power equipment, transportation facilities, radio and television facilities or disaster relief, emergency rescue, flood control, etc. , with a total value of more than 50,000 yuan;
4, leading to upstream illegal and criminal cases can not be investigated in time, and caused irreparable serious losses of public and private property or other serious consequences;
5, seriously hinder the relevant units to investigate and deal with upstream crimes.
To sum up, if it is found to be criminal proceeds or criminal proceeds, citizens should report it to the public security organs in a timely manner, rather than covering up or concealing it. Doing so will only make you suspect of a crime, and then pursue criminal responsibility.
Legal basis:
Article 3 12 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Whoever conceals, conceals, transfers, purchases, sells on behalf of others, or conceals or conceals the crime, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
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 punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.