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Four members of a gang have been given prison sentences and hefty fines after stealing artifacts from tombs in Beijing's Chaoyang district.
Han Fei, of Anhui province, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for robbing the graves and fined 20,000 yuan ($3,220). Zhao Xianhai, of Anhui, was sentenced to seven years and fined 14,000 yuan, and Zhao Yunyin, also of Anhui, was sentenced to 42 months and fined 7,000 yuan. The last member of the gang, Liu Biao, of Beijing, was sentenced to nine years and fined 18,000 yuan, after being found guilty of taking the three robbers to the sites, digging up cultural relics and disposing of the stolen goods at an antiques market. The stolen items were all funerary objects from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and were considered valuable, Shi said.
