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In China, it appears they take cultural preservation a wee bit more
seriously than we do here in the states. Imagine what this would do to curb
looting and pilgerege! (No I am not advocating it)
Curator Gets Death for Stealing Relics
BEIJING (Reuters) - The head of a relics protection department at a former
Chinese imperial palace has been sentenced to death for stealing the
artifacts he was meant to protect, the Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.
Li Haitao was found guilty of stealing 259 relics from the Eight Outer
Temples, part of the World Heritage Chengde Mountain Resort site in central
Hebei Province, and replacing them with fakes.
The crimes took place between 1992 and 2002 when Li was head of the
Cultural Relics Protection Department.
"Li pocketed more than 3.2 million yuan ($385,500) and $72,000 by selling
152 pieces of cultural relics he had stolen," Xinhua said.
Police had seized more than 100 relics from his private collection, it
said.
The Intermediate People's Court of Chengde city also sentenced four of Li's
accomplices to jail terms from between two and five years and fined them
between 10,000 yuan ($1,200) and 100,000 yuan ($12,000), it said.
The sprawling, 300-year-old resort, a major tourist destination 150 km (90
miles) northeast of Beijing, served as the temporary imperial palace of the
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) emperors Kangxi and Qianlong.
It was listed by UNESCO (news - web sites) as a World Heritage site in
1994, Xinhua said.
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