Yao Yuzhong, the principal behind China’s largest grave robbery case since 1949, was sentenced to death penalty with a two-year reprieve in a court in northeast China’s Liaoning province on April 14, 2016.

Three tomb raider accomplices got life sentence, and several others got 3 to 15 years of imprisonment.

The criminals were involved in the largest grave robbery case since the founding of People’s Republic of China in 1949. A total of 225 suspects were caught in the case, and 2,063 historical relics were retrieved since the end of 2014.