The legal basis is the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on How to Apply the Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Forging or Selling Forged Academic Qualifications and Degree Certificates of Colleges and Universities;
In order to punish the criminal activities of forging and selling forged academic qualifications and degree certificates of institutions of higher learning according to law, the relevant issues concerning the application of law in handling such cases are explained as follows:
Whoever forges the seal of an institution of higher learning to issue academic qualifications and degree certificates shall be convicted and punished for the crime of forging the seal of an institution of higher learning in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 280 of the Criminal Law.
Whoever knowingly sells academic qualifications and degree certificates forged by the seals of institutions of higher learning shall be punished as the * * * offender of the crime of forging the seals of institutions. "
In addition, some diplomas will have the seal of the self-taught examination committee, for example, the self-taught examination diploma will have the seal of the provincial self-taught examination committee. At this time, it is more appropriate to directly convict the crime of forging or altering the seal of state organs or forging or altering the seal of public institutions (the key is to distinguish whether the commission is a state organ or a public institution), and it is not necessary to convict it according to the theory of * * * *. The legal basis is the first and second paragraphs of Article 280 of the Criminal Law: "
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; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
Whoever forges the seal of a company, enterprise, institution or people's organization shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights. "