Legal basis: Article 175-1 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC): Crime of defrauding loans, bill acceptance and financial bills. Whoever defrauds a bank or other financial institution of loans, acceptance bills, letters of credit or guarantees, thus causing heavy losses to the bank or other financial institution or having other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; Whoever causes particularly heavy losses to banks or other financial institutions or has other particularly serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.