Legal basis: Article 307 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Whoever brings a civil lawsuit with fabricated facts, impairs 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.