This kind of accomplice's criminal behavior is usually manifested in providing criminal tools, indicating the criminal target, checking the crime location, removing criminal obstacles, conspiring in advance and promising to hide criminals afterwards, eliminating criminal traces and hiding stolen goods to help the crime. According to the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), an accomplice plays a secondary or auxiliary role in a joint crime. An accessory shall be given a lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment.
The acts of helping criminals escape punishment are as follows:
1, in order to make criminals escape punishment, disclose to criminals and their relatives the deployment, personnel, measures, time and place of criminal activities prohibited by relevant departments;
2, in order to make criminals escape punishment, provide criminals and their relatives with transportation, communication equipment, hiding places and other convenient conditions;
3, in order to make criminals escape punishment, disclose the case to criminals and their relatives, help and instruct them to conceal, destroy, forge evidence and collusion;
4. Other acts of informing criminals, providing convenience and helping criminals escape punishment.
Legal basis:
Article 4 17 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).
State functionaries who have the duty to stop criminal activities and provide information and convenience to criminals to help them escape punishment shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
Article 44 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
A defender or any other person shall not help a criminal suspect or defendant to conceal, destroy, forge evidence or collude in confession, and shall not threaten or induce witnesses to commit perjury or engage in other acts that hinder judicial proceedings. Anyone who violates the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be investigated for legal responsibility according to law. If a defender is suspected of committing a crime, it shall be handled by an investigation organ other than the investigation organ where the defender undertakes the case. If the defender is a lawyer, he shall promptly notify the law firm where he belongs or the lawyers association to which he belongs.