According to the relevant regulations of the Supreme People's Court, if a criminal suspect's relatives return stolen goods on his behalf, they can be given a lighter punishment. From the legal nature, there is no difference between returning stolen goods to public security organs and procuratorates and returning stolen goods to courts. However, the return of stolen goods to public security organs and procuratorates is generally stated in the indictment of the procuratorate, and the criminal suspect has a good attitude of pleading guilty, suggesting that the court should give a lighter punishment; Returning stolen goods to the court will generally reflect a lighter sentence in the court judgment. For the return of stolen goods and compensation, we should comprehensively consider the nature of the crime, the extent to which the return of stolen goods and compensation can make up for the damage, the amount and initiative of the return of stolen goods and compensation, and determine the degree of leniency.
If all the stolen money and compensation are returned, the benchmark punishment can be reduced by less than 30%. In other words, in the process of case investigation, it is mainly family members, lawyers or middlemen who help to contact the relevant case handlers and units to explain the sincerity and amount of returning stolen money. Being able to voluntarily return stolen goods has a certain impact on the severity of the final judgment of the case, and it is also a manifestation of confession and repentance, and will be dealt with lightly according to law.
Legal basis: Article 176th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Crime of illegally absorbing public deposits Whoever illegally absorbs public deposits or absorbs public deposits in disguised form, thus disrupting the financial order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention 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 and 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 acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs and actively returns the stolen goods before bringing a public prosecution to reduce the occurrence of damage results may be given a lighter or mitigated punishment.