Explanations of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on several issues concerning the application of laws in handling criminal cases of corruption and bribery;
Article 1 Whoever embezzles or accepts bribes in an amount of not less than 30,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be deemed as a "relatively large amount" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 383 of the Criminal Law, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined.
If the amount of bribes is more than 10,000 yuan but less than 30,000 yuan, and it falls under the circumstances specified in Items 2 to 6 of the preceding paragraph, or under any of the following circumstances, it shall be deemed as "other serious circumstances" as specified in the first paragraph of Article 383 of the Criminal Law, and it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and fined:
(a) repeatedly asking for bribes;
(two) to seek illegitimate interests for others, resulting in the loss of public property, the interests of the state and the people;
(3) seeking job promotion or adjustment for others.
Article 2 Whoever embezzles or accepts bribes of more than 200,000 yuan but less than 3 million yuan shall be deemed as "a huge amount" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 383 of the Criminal Law, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined or confiscated.
If the amount of bribes is more than 100,000 yuan but less than 200,000 yuan, and one of the circumstances stipulated in the third paragraph of Article 1 of this Interpretation is involved, it shall be deemed as "other serious circumstances" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 383 of the Criminal Law, and it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined or confiscated.
Article 3 Whoever embezzles or accepts bribes in an amount of more than 3 million yuan shall be deemed as "extremely huge" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 383 of the Criminal Law, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death, and shall also be fined or confiscated of property.
If the amount of bribes is more than 1.5 million yuan but less than 3 million yuan, and one of the circumstances stipulated in the third paragraph of Article 1 of this Interpretation is involved, it shall be deemed as "other particularly serious circumstances" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 383 of the Criminal Law, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death, and shall also be fined or confiscated.