Is it illegal not to take the initiative to find your wallet?

It's illegal not to return your wallet when you find it. The huge amount may face the risk of fines and criminal law.

According to Article 109 of the Property Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the lost property shall be returned to the obligee. The person who finds the financial property shall promptly notify the obligee to collect it or deliver it to the public security organ and other relevant departments.

According to Article 270 of the Criminal Law, illegal possession of the property of other detainees is extremely huge. Those who refuse to return it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, criminal detention or a fine; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than two years but not more than five years. And was fined.

Whoever illegally takes forgetting things and buried objects of others for himself and refuses to hand them over in a large amount shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

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One day at noon, Xiaohong finished all the work and went to the store to have a rest. Suddenly, she found a wallet on the ground. Xiaohong picked up her purse and opened it quickly. There are really hundreds of dollars in cash in it. He quickly put the money into his pocket, rummaged through his wallet and found several bank cards, one of which had numbers written on the back. Xiaohong was overjoyed and decided to take a chance at the ATM.

That night, in order to hide people's eyes and ears, Xiaohong drove his motorcycle to the ATM machine far away from his sister's restaurant. When preparing to withdraw money, Xiaohong, who felt guilty, covered her face with her coat. Xiaohong inserted the bank card and entered the password, and the surprise appeared. Cary still has more than 7000 yuan. Xiaohong felt really lucky, so she took out 7000 yuan in three times. After that, Xiaohong discarded the bank card and left Dehua.

With the alarm and incident of the owner, Xiaohong was finally captured by the police.

Afterwards, Xiaohong voluntarily returned all the stolen money, but was transferred for review and prosecution according to law because of suspected crimes.

The Dehua County Court held through trial that Xiaohong fraudulently used other people's credit cards for credit card fraud, and the amount was large, which constituted the crime of credit card fraud. After fully considering the facts, circumstances, harmful consequences, confession and repentance, criminal record and other circumstances of this case, Xiaohong was sentenced to 6 months in prison and fined 20,000 yuan.

According to the provisions of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Impairment of Credit Card Management, it is a crime to use forged credit cards, credit cards fraudulently obtained with false identification, invalid credit cards or fraudulent use of other people's credit cards to engage in credit card fraud activities, and the amount reaches more than 5,000 yuan.

In the case, Xiao Hong took 7000 yuan from the bank card she found. If the amount is relatively large, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan.

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