1, criminal suspects or criminals delete or destroy evidence related to criminal acts, such as destroying documents and deleting emails;
2. Criminal suspects or criminals forge or tamper with evidence related to criminal acts, such as forging documents and tampering with records;
3. Criminal suspects or criminals use deception to cover up or divert the investigation direction of public security organs, such as making false statements and fabricating lies;
4. Criminal suspects or criminals use threats, intimidation or violence to prevent witnesses or other relevant personnel from testifying or cooperating with the investigation.
The constitutive elements of concealment crime are as follows:
1. Act, the act of concealing or concealing a crime, refers to the act that a criminal suspect or criminal takes various means to conceal or conceal his own criminal facts, including deleting, destroying evidence, forging evidence, tampering with records, cheating, threats, intimidation, violence and other means;
2. Plot: Covering up the plot of a crime refers to the seriousness and harmfulness of criminal suspects and criminals concealing and concealing the facts of the crime, such as whether it makes it difficult to find out the case, affects the testimony of others or assists in investigation;
3. Effect: The effect of concealing and concealing a crime refers to whether the criminal suspect or criminal actually successfully conceals and conceals his own criminal facts, and whether it affects the investigation and detection of the case;
4. Subjectively, the subjective aspect of concealing a crime refers to the intention of a criminal suspect or criminal to intentionally conceal or cover up the facts of a crime, that is, knowing that he has committed a crime, he also adopts means such as concealment and cover-up.
To sum up, concealing a crime is the behavior of a criminal suspect or criminal after committing a crime, which belongs to the auxiliary behavior of a crime and is a challenge and contempt for justice and law. In the criminal law, the crime of concealing is recognized as a criminal act, such as the crime of obstructing testimony stipulated in Article 358 of the Criminal Law and the crime of forging, altering, concealing and destroying evidence stipulated in Article 233 of the Criminal Law.
Legal basis:
Article 3 12 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.
Whoever conceals, conceals, transfers, purchases, sells on behalf of others, or conceals or conceals the crime, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, 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 seven years and shall also be fined.
If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.