□ Zhang Ningdan, an all-media reporter of Legal Daily
□ Correspondent Ma Ying Schilling
"Now for the trial!" At 10:00 a.m. on June 24, as Judge Gong Fan knocked down the gavel, the money laundering case of defendants Liu Jun and Yang Limin was tried in public at the Intermediate People's Court of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. With the advancement of the trial, a case of "whitewashing" drug funds of more than 10 million yuan has lifted the veil.
According to the public prosecution organs, since the second half of 2017, Liu Jun and Yang Limin, as the brothers and ex-wives of drug offender Liu Quan (prosecuted in a separate case), have, knowing that Liu Quan has been engaged in drug crimes for a long time, in order to conceal and conceal the source and nature of Liu Quan's drug crimes and the source and nature of the proceeds and their proceeds, by providing capital accounts, transferring funds, fabricating false investments, and fabricating creditor's rights and debts, etc., to assist Liu Quan in transferring and converting the proceeds of drug crimes and their proceeds into "legal" property. There are various ways to launder money, and the amount involved in the case exceeds 10 million yuan.
The Legal Daily reporter learned that in November 2018, the police of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces jointly cracked the target case of the Ministry of Public Security code-named "543", and the police of the three provinces closed the net six times around the source of the drug, and the whole chain destroyed a heroin trafficking channel of "Myanmar - Yunnan Baoshan - Guangxi Qinzhou - Dongguan, Guangdong", seizing 81 kilograms of heroin, which is the largest number of cases of heroin seized in Guangzhou in 3 years.
But in this case, drug lord Liu Quan had little personal property left under his name, while his ex-wife Yang Limin, a 23-year-old farmer woman, had more than 4.5 million villas and more than 2 million cash deposits. Liu Quan's brother Liu Jun also opened the town's largest supermarket and hot pot shop in a short period of time, and owned a set of shops worth 2 million yuan in Baoshan City, Yunnan Province.
Liu Jun claimed that the funds came from the proceeds of his apiary, but the investigation found that the apiary was very desolate.
It is understood that Liu Quan and Yang Limin married in January 2017, gave birth to a son in November of the same year, divorced a month later, and have been living together in a rental house in Baoshan City since then, and have had a son after divorce. Although the two are divorced, the relationship has always been very close.
In September 2018, Liu Quan returned to the rental house after receiving more than 2 million yuan of drug funds, handing over more than 1.7 million yuan to Yang Limin, and the remaining more than 300,000 yuan was hidden under the bed of the rental house. Subsequently, Yang Limin deposited 1.7 million yuan of drug funds into six banks in two days into her own bank card.
When the public security organs arrested Liu Quan, the scene found more than 300,000 yuan of cash and dozens of bank cards hidden under the bed, although Yang Limin took the initiative to hand over the bank card, but took advantage of the time difference between the police to check and freeze in different places, and successfully transferred about 1.5 million yuan of drug funds.
It turned out that Yang Limin had used underground money banks to legalize drug funds. These underground money banks specializing in the rapid transfer of funds have carried out rapid fund transfers by purchasing citizens' bank cards, identity cards, U shields, telephone cards, etc. at high prices, dispersing money from one account to multiple accounts, and the drug funds are scattered layer by layer, which greatly interferes with the tracking of drug funds by the public security organs, thus achieving the purpose of "bleaching" the drug funds.
Following Yang Limin's line, the public security organs also found that in order to further assist Liu Quan in converting the proceeds of crime and its proceeds into "legal" property, Yang Limin and Liu Jun also conspired to falsely set up creditor's rights and debts, and signed a false loan contract that Yang Limin borrowed 1.6 million yuan from Liu Jun on June 15, 2018 to buy a house. Later, Yang Limin transferred the shop purchased with drug money to Liu Jun's name on the grounds that she could not repay the loan.
According to reports, this case is the first downstream criminal money laundering case detected in Guangzhou since the state assigned the investigation of drug-related money laundering crimes to the anti-narcotics department. Different from the traditional use of heavy sentences to combat crime and deter criminals, this case has realized a two-way full chain attack on drugs and drug funds by cracking down on the illegal proceeds of drug crimes.
Sentencing in the case will be scheduled.
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