Is it so serious that the police caught buying virtual currency in cash and selling it on the platform? Is it still a crime of harboring?

Covering up the crime is serious. The meaning of income is to help the parties transfer or conceal their income when they know that they are in violation of the law, because it is also a crime to help criminal suspects conceal or conceal their income under normal circumstances, and the term of imprisonment is more than three years and less than seven years.

Legal analysis

Whoever knowingly conceals, transfers, purchases, sells on behalf of others or conceals or disguises by other means 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. Whoever conceals the proceeds of crime constitutes a crime, conceals, transfers, purchases, sells on his behalf or conceals or conceals it in the following ways, shall be convicted and punished for concealing or concealing the proceeds of crime and the crimes he has committed: concealing or concealing the proceeds of crime and the amount of the proceeds of crime is more than 3,000 yuan but less than 10,000 yuan; Having received administrative punishment for concealing or concealing the proceeds of crime and its proceeds within one year, and having concealed or concealed the proceeds of crime and its proceeds; Concealing or concealing that the proceeds of crime are power equipment, transportation facilities, radio and television facilities, public telecommunications facilities, military facilities or funds and materials for disaster relief, emergency rescue, flood control, special care, poverty alleviation, immigration and relief; Cover up or conceal, so that upstream crimes can not be investigated in time, resulting in irreparable losses of public and private property; Carrying out other acts of concealing or concealing the proceeds of crime and its proceeds, and obstructing judicial organs from investigating upstream crimes.

legal ground

Article 312 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or 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.