According to the criminal suspect, when he was shooting pheasants in the mountains, he saw three giant pandas, two of them ran away, 1 the little one was in the tree. He knocked the young giant panda down from the tree with a shotgun. At that time, the giant panda didn't die immediately. He strangled it with a rope on the spot.
It was identified that the giant panda was only 1 year and a half, and its skin was 80 cm long.
According to the criminal suspect, the main reason for killing giant pandas is to sell money. He first sold the panda skin to a farmer in a neighboring county for 2000 yuan, and then the farmer sold it to others for 20000 yuan. After layers of sales, the price of this panda skin to be sold to Chongqing has risen to 550,000 yuan.
Law enforcement officials in Chongqing said that according to the forest criminal filing standards, illegal hunting and selling of more than/kloc-0 pandas constituted a serious forest criminal case.
According to (Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC))
Article 151 Whoever smuggles weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currency shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years and shall also be fined or confiscated; If the circumstances are relatively minor, 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 smuggles cultural relics, precious metals such as gold and silver prohibited by the state, or precious animals and their products prohibited by the state shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years and fined.
Article 341 Whoever illegally hunts or kills rare and endangered wildlife under special state protection, or illegally buys, transports or sells rare and endangered wildlife under special state protection and its products, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years and shall also be fined or confiscated.
Whoever, in violation of hunting laws and regulations, hunts in a no-hunting area or during a no-hunting period or uses prohibited tools and methods to destroy wildlife resources, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or a fine.
Article 225 Whoever, in violation of State regulations, commits one of the following illegal business operations and disrupts the market order, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times for illegal gains or confiscation of property:
(a) operating a franchise or monopoly commodity or other commodities whose operation is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission;
(2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations;
(3) illegally engaging in securities, futures or insurance business without the approval of the relevant competent department of the state; "The original third to fourth place.
(four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.
Article 341 Whoever illegally hunts or kills rare and endangered wildlife under special state protection, or illegally buys, transports or sells rare and endangered wildlife under special state protection and its products, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years and shall also be fined or confiscated.
Whoever, in violation of hunting laws and regulations, hunts in a no-hunting area or during a no-hunting period or uses prohibited tools and methods to destroy wildlife resources, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or a fine.