I. Legal use of P official seal
P official seal is an important legal seal of an enterprise or organization, and its use is strictly regulated by law. In legal business activities, the use of P official seal is essential, such as contract signing, document authentication, financial vouchers and so on. In these cases, the use of the official seal P is legal and protected by law.
Second, the illegal use of P official seal
However, if the official seal P is abused or used for illegal purposes, it may constitute an illegal act or even a crime. For example, misappropriating public funds, forging official seal P for contract fraud, financial fraud, forging official documents, etc. They are all serious violations of the law and are suspected of constituting crimes such as fraud and forgery of official documents.
In addition, unauthorized use of P's official seal or lending it to others may also constitute an illegal act. Because these acts may lead to the infringement of the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises or organizations and damage their reputation and interests.
Third, prevent the abuse of P official seal.
In order to prevent the official seal from being abused and illegally used, enterprises or organizations should establish a perfect seal management system, and clarify the process of keeping, using and approving seals. At the same time, strengthen the training and education of employees on the seal management system, and improve employees' legal awareness and risk prevention awareness.
To sum up:
Whether the use of the official seal constitutes a crime depends on the way and purpose of its use. The legal use of the official seal P is protected by law, and the illegal use may constitute a violation of law or a crime. Therefore, enterprises or organizations should strengthen the management and supervision of P official seal to prevent it from being abused or used for illegal purposes.
Legal basis:
Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
Article 280 stipulates that:
Whoever forges, alters or buys or sells official documents, certificates and seals of state organs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, 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.
People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law
Article 52 provides that:
Whoever commits one of the following acts shall be detained for more than 10 and less than 15, and may also be fined less than 1000 yuan; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined not more than five hundred yuan:
(1) Forging, altering or buying or selling official documents, certificates, certification documents and seals of state organs, people's organizations, enterprises, institutions or other organizations;
(2) buying, selling or using forged or altered official documents, certificates and supporting documents of state organs, people's organizations, enterprises, institutions or other organizations;