Huang's large, very public displays aroused the MOE's ire. It charged him in 1995 in the Penghu District Court with violating an article of the old Cultural Heritage Preservation Act that stated that antiquities from abandoned shipwrecks are the property of the state. The MOE accused Huang of pilfering antiquities belonging to the state and forced him to turn over 783 items-mostly earthenware pots and pieces of porcelain-to the Penghu Cultural Affairs Bureau.
黃加進大張旗鼓的做法，引起教育部的不滿，遂於 1995 年引當時舊版《文資法》第 17 條「沉沒水中之無主古物概為國家所有」的規定，向澎湖地方法院提出公訴，控告黃加進「竊占國有古物」，最後並迫使他交出陶壺、瓷片等共 783 件文物，全數「捐」給澎湖文化局。