A woman in China was sentenced to 11 years in prison after five years for sorting out her husband’s belongings. (Schematic diagram / flipped from pexels)
What should I do with the property left by the deceased family member? There was a woman in China who found about 10,000 notes in a box containing about 10,000 US dollars when she was sorting out her husband’s belongings. She did not expect to violate the law and had to pay a fine and serve a sentence in prison. The end was very miserable.
When Ms. Zhang was sorting out the belongings of her husband surnamed Cui in May 2018, she found a black suitcase. When she opened it, she found a box of US$100 bills inside. It was estimated that there were more than 10,000 bills. It was found to be a counterfeit banknote, so it was temporarily placed in the bedroom closet. Three months later, because of moving, the suitcase was transported from Guangdong to Sichuan and placed in my brother’s house. Until June last year, Zhang and her boyfriend moved the suitcase containing the counterfeit banknotes to another place.
Later, when the Dongchuang incident was discovered, the Hami City Center Sub-branch of the People’s Bank of China identified that the 11,398 US$100 bills held by Ms. Zhang were all counterfeit banknotes, which were converted into RMB 7.6822 million (about 34 million NT dollars), and she was prosecuted.
The court held that Ms. Zhang knowingly transported the counterfeit banknotes, and the amount was particularly large, which violated the law. Imprisonment or life imprisonment, and a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan or confiscation of property.” Ms. Zhang was finally sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined 50,000 RMB (approximately NT$220,000).