Legal basis: the crime of holding and using counterfeit money in Article 172 of the Criminal Law.
Whoever knowingly holds and uses counterfeit currency, with a relatively large amount, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; If the amount is huge, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; If the amount is especially huge, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan or confiscated property.