Legal basis:
Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
Article 307-1 Whoever brings a civil lawsuit for the crime of false litigation on the basis of fabricated facts, which hinders the judicial order or seriously infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of others, 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.
Whoever commits the act mentioned in the first paragraph, illegally occupies other people's property or evades legal debts, which constitutes other crimes, shall be convicted and given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions on heavier punishment.
Judicial personnel who use their powers to collude with others to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs shall be given a heavier punishment; If it constitutes other crimes at the same time, it shall be convicted and given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions on heavier punishment.
People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Procedure Law
Article 114 If a litigant participant or other person commits one of the following acts, the people's court may impose a fine or detention according to the seriousness of the case; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:
(1) Forging or destroying important evidence, which hinders the people's court from hearing a case;
(2) using violence, threats or bribes to prevent witnesses from testifying or instigating, bribing or coercing others to commit perjury;
(3) Hiding, transferring, selling off or destroying the property that has been sealed up or detained, or transferring the property that has been counted and ordered to be kept;
(4) Insulting, slandering, framing, beating or retaliating against judicial personnel, participants in litigation, witnesses, translators, expert witnesses, inspectors and assisting executors;
(5) Obstructing judicial personnel from performing their duties by violence, threat or other means;
(6) Refusing to perform a legally effective judgment or ruling of the people's court.
The people's court may impose a fine or detention on a unit that commits one of the acts listed in the preceding paragraph; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.