Legal basis: Provisions on the Procedure of Handling Criminal Cases by Public Security Organs Article 231 The public security organs may, according to the needs of investigating crimes, inquire about and freeze the deposits, remittances, bonds, stocks, fund shares and other properties of criminal suspects in accordance with regulations, and may require relevant units and individuals to cooperate.
Article 144 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), people's procuratorates and public security organs may, according to the needs of investigating crimes, inquire about and freeze the deposits, remittances, bonds, stocks, fund shares and other properties of criminal suspects in accordance with regulations. The relevant units and individuals shall cooperate. If a criminal suspect's deposits, remittances, bonds, stocks, fund shares and other properties have been frozen, they may not be frozen again.
Article 145 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * If property, documents, mails, telegrams or frozen deposits, remittances, bonds, stocks, fund shares, etc. If the articles that have been sealed up or detained are found to be really irrelevant to the case, the sealing up, seizure and freezing shall be lifted within three days and returned.