State functionaries who take advantage of their positions to misappropriate public funds for personal use and engage in illegal activities, or misappropriate a large amount of public funds for profit-making activities, or misappropriate a large amount of public funds and fail to pay them back for more than three months, are guilty of embezzlement and are sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years. Whoever misappropriates a huge amount of public funds and does not return it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 1 years or life imprisonment. The amount here is relatively large, starting from the misappropriation of public funds of 1, to 3, yuan, and starting from the misappropriation of public funds of 15, to 2, yuan.