Legal basis: Obtaining loans, bill acceptance, letters of credit, letters of guarantee, etc. in Article 175 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). Whoever defrauds a bank or other financial institution of funds, thus causing heavy losses to the bank or other financial institution or 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.