【High-speed rail security inspection found "strange stone"! 】 Xinjiang police crack a major case of reselling cultural relics] On March 29, 2020, a passenger carrying multiple pieces of luggage, including backpacks, trolley suitcases and yellow cartons, entered the gate of Tuha Station of the Lanxin High-Speed Railway. The police officer on duty, Yakph Yasen, found on the security screen that the packages were filled with strange stones: some like jade axes, some like arrows, some like jade beads, and more like stone tools. According to the preliminary appraisal of the Cultural Relics Bureau of Shanshan County, these "strange stones" are all cultural relics of the Ancient City of Loulan, a total of 176 pieces. The Urumqi Railway Public Security Bureau quickly set up a special task force for the "3.29" resale of cultural relics to investigate and excavate a huge and large-scale cultural relics criminal network focusing on the resale of cultural relics in the ancient city of Langu. The length and number of cases involved are unprecedented, and the number of cultural relics involved is unprecedented, and the loss of cultural relics radiates to 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. Subsequently, the special case command coordinated the police forces to carry out clue verification and cultural relics recovery in various places, and searched the residences of 39 suspects involved in the case in Shanshan County, and a total of 2649 cultural relics were searched and seized. (Guangming Daily all-media reporter Wang Ser, correspondent Wang Bo, Cai Zhongzhao)
Source: Guangming Daily