Legal basis: criminal law
Article 264 Whoever steals a large amount of public or private property, or repeatedly steals, enters a house, carries a weapon or pickpockets, 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 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 or confiscated.
Criminal procedure law
Article 107 When a public security organ or a people's procuratorate discovers a criminal fact or a criminal suspect, it shall file a case for investigation within its jurisdiction.
Article 108 Any unit or individual who discovers criminal facts or suspects has the right and obligation to report to the public security organ, the people's procuratorate or the people's court.
Victims have the right to report and accuse criminal facts or criminal suspects who infringe their personal and property rights to public security organs, people's procuratorates or people's courts.
Public security organs, people's procuratorates or people's courts shall accept reports, complaints and reports. If it does not belong to its own jurisdiction, it shall be transferred to the competent authority for handling, and the informant, complainant and informant shall be notified; For those who are not under their jurisdiction and must take emergency measures, they should take emergency measures first and then transfer them to the competent department.
Where a criminal surrenders himself to a public security organ, a people's procuratorate or a people's court, the provisions of the third paragraph shall apply.
Article 160 When investigating a closed case, the public security organ shall ensure that the facts of the crime are clear and the evidence is true and sufficient, and write a prosecution opinion, which shall be transferred to the people's procuratorate at the same level for examination and decision together with the case file and evidence; At the same time, inform the criminal suspect and his defense lawyer about the transfer of the case.
Article 172 If a people's procuratorate considers that the criminal facts of a criminal suspect have been ascertained and the evidence is true and sufficient, and criminal responsibility should be investigated according to law, it shall make a decision on prosecution, institute a public prosecution in a people's court in accordance with the provisions on trial jurisdiction, and transfer the case files and evidence to the people's court.