On January 20, the Guangdong Provincial Anti-Organized Crime Office and the Information Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government jointly held a press conference to introduce the main contents of the normalized anti-gang crime and anti-evil struggle in Guangdong Province in 2021.

Secretaries of the five levels of provinces, cities, counties, towns and villages
Personally grasp the struggle to sweep away criminal syndicates and eliminate evil forces
Zhang Qinghong, deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Provincial CPC Committee, deputy head of the Provincial Leading Group for the Fight Against Organized Crime and Evil Forces, and director of the Provincial Anti-Organized Crime Office, said that in 2021, it was clear that the secretaries of the five levels of provinces, cities, counties, towns, and villages personally grasped the struggle against organized crime and evil forces, and the 4 cases listed and supervised by the National Anti-Crime Office investigated and dealt with 119 people involved in criminal syndicates and corruption and "protective umbrellas".
In 2021, the province smashed 26 mafia-related organizations and 101 evil force criminal groups, cracked 2,910 criminal cases, detained 5,211 criminal suspects, and sealed, frozen, and seized 4.074 billion yuan of assets involved in the case. The public security organs launched an operation to arrest the "fish that slipped through the net", and all 40 targeted fugitives were arrested; the provincial procuratorate insisted on handling 100% early intervention in cases involving criminal syndicates and major evil-related cases and unified a strict control system, and simultaneously examined 57 cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces. The provincial court adopted methods such as "one-handed" case package and promotion to direct handling, and promoted the provincial courts to conclude 151 cases involving criminal syndicates, with a heavy sentence rate of 58.2%.
In 2021, a total of 924 people involved in mafia-related evil corruption and "protective umbrellas" were investigated and punished, 903 people were given party discipline and government affairs sanctions, and 133 people were transferred to judicial organs. By the end of last year, the disposal rate of assets in existing cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces in effective judgments had reached 99.9 percent and 100 percent, respectively.
The case-handling department issued a total of 2,322 supervision recommendations, judicial recommendations, procuratorial recommendations, and public security reminder letters, and 100% rectification was in place. The Political and Legal Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Public Security Department organized special operations such as "anti-fraud by the whole people" and "anti-fraud by all police", which detected 44,700 cases of telecommunications fraud and arrested 49,200 criminal suspects, an increase of 46.3% and 81.62% respectively year-on-year. The Provincial Department of Natural Resources carried out a special action to crack down on the illegal and criminal activities of rare earth resources, and issued 64 appraisal conclusions on the damage value of mineral resources caused by illegal mining and destructive mining, involving a damage value of about 960 million yuan. The Provincial Department of Transportation organized the construction management and rectification of the super unloading yard, and all 155 new projects in the province were confirmed, and 53 were completed. The competent departments of housing and urban-rural construction at all levels in the province continued to strengthen the supervision of the construction market, carried out special rectification actions for contracting and bidding, investigated and dealt with 408 cases of violations of laws and regulations, and fined 65.192 million yuan. The provincial local financial supervision bureau continued to promote the special action of P2P online loan risk battle, and all 707 online lending institutions included in the scope of rectification were suspended and withdrawn. The Guangdong Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau organized the "Year of Internal Control and Compliance Management Construction", and made a total of 156 administrative punishment decisions, punished 110 institutions, and fined and confiscated a total of 77.1917 million yuan.
During the special struggle, more than 5,700 clues assigned by the National Anti-Organized Crime Office and supervised by the Provincial Anti-Organized Crime Office and key supervision were all completed. Focus on cracking down on and rectifying the crimes of criminal syndicates and evil forces in rural areas, and smash 16 rural criminal syndicates and 39 criminal groups of evil forces.
In addition, the provincial party committee held a summary and commendation meeting to commend 60 advanced collectives, 99 advanced workers, 198 county and department-level cadres and 81 advanced units in the province. 305 party members and cadres who failed to advance the struggle against organized crime and evil forces and neglected their duties and responsibilities were held accountable. In 2021, the province's criminal police situation and public security police situation decreased by 12.68% and 10.41% respectively year-on-year, the public's sense of security increased by 2.1% year-on-year, and the social security environment continued to improve.
The number of petitions and reports decreased by 79.1% year-on-year
Gong Haiming, a member of the Provincial Supervision Commission, said that since the normalization of "punishing corruption and cracking down on umbrellas", in the whole of 2021, the province has received a total of 79.1% year-on-year in the number of letters and reports related to mafia-related corruption and "protective umbrella" problems, and the number of letters and visits in 16 prefectures and cities has been less than 10, of which 4 prefectures and cities have zero letters and visits. The number of clues on the issue of mafia-related evil and corruption and the "protective umbrella" problem accepted by the province fell by 70% year-on-year, indicating that after a three-year special struggle to eliminate organized crime and evil forces, the political ecology of the province has continued to improve.
In 2021, 884 cadres at the section level and below were investigated and punished in the province, accounting for 95.7% of the total number of people under investigation. The province has filed a case to investigate and punish 176 people who are corrupt and "protective umbrellas" behind the "sand tyrants" and "mining tyrants," giving 131 party discipline and government affairs sanctions, and transferring 31 people to judicial organs. The province's investigation and handling of mafia-related evils and corruption and the "protective umbrella" of the political and legal system decreased by 66.1% year-on-year. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have organically linked the normalization of "punishing corruption and cracking down on umbrellas" with the education and rectification of the political and legal contingent, persisted in treating both the symptoms and the root causes, and continuously consolidated and deepened the results.
Strengthen the building of rural grassroots party organizations
Luo Xianzhi, a member of the Provincial Party Committee Organization Department, said that in 2021, the village-level change will carry out a county-level joint trial of 160,000 village (community) "two committees" cadre candidates, and resolutely prevent political two-faced people, those who have received criminal punishments, and those who have problems such as "village tyrants" and those involved in criminal syndicates and vices from entering the "two committees" team. Normalize the rectification of weak and sluggish grass-roots party organizations, promptly include villages with problems of interference and erosion of criminal and evil forces into the target of rectification, and dynamically sell numbers for one village and one policy.
In the next step, we will fully implement the filing management of the organization department of the county-level party committee of the village party organization secretary and the county-level joint review mechanism for the membership of the "two committees", and strengthen the supervision and management of the village party organization secretary after "shoulder to shoulder". Efforts should be made to implement the project of vanguard party members in southern Guangdong, promote demonstration posts for party members and contact households for party members, and guide grass-roots party members to take a clear-cut stand in the struggle against criminal syndicates and evil forces. For villages that have been discovered to have been interfered with and eroded by "village tyrants" and other criminal and evil forces, one village and one policy will study rectification measures; for villages with complicated situations and great difficult work, working groups will be dispatched to carry out rectification.
Provincial courts
2,887 people were sentenced in 427 cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces
Zhao Juhua, vice president of the provincial court, said that since the normalization of the struggle against organized crime and evil forces, the provincial courts have adjudicated a total of 427 cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces and 2,887 people, severely punished 107 cases of criminal syndicates and evil crimes in the five key industries of information networks, natural resources, transportation, engineering construction, and financial lending that the masses of the people strongly complained about, and sentenced 185 leading elements of criminal syndicates and evil crimes such as Zhang Shijie of Heyuan to more than ten years in prison. The Provincial Procuratorate and the Provincial Public Security Department jointly issued guidelines for handling telecommunications fraud cases, and concluded 4,614 cases of telecommunications network fraud and related crimes such as Liu Geliang and He Jinli.
Deploy and carry out the special activities of "Southern Guangdong Enforcement Storm 2021" and the "Fight for Money and Cut Off Blood" enforcement action, and the time for handling cases in enforcement cases has been greatly shortened by more than 20%. As of the end of December 2021, the enforcement of criminal and evil property in the provincial courts was 14.01 billion yuan, with an enforcement rate of 93.1%.
Provincial procuratorial organs
1,584 people were prosecuted in 286 cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces
Jin Bo, deputy chief procurator of the provincial procuratorate, said that in 2021, the procuratorial organs in the province prosecuted a total of 286 cases and 1584 people for crimes related to criminal syndicates and evil forces, and prosecuted a number of major and important cases such as the cases of Jieyang Chen Liangwu and others and the cases of Maoming Huang Junqi and others involved in criminal syndicates supervised by the National Anti-Gang Crime Office in accordance with the law. The provincial procuratorate simultaneously reviewed 57 cases involving organized crime and major vice-related cases, and sent people to read the case file for guidance on key cases of the central supervisor. Procuratorial organs in various localities adhered to "one recommendation per case" or "multiple suggestions in one case", and formulated and issued a total of 203 procuratorial suggestions.
In handling the case of Lin Jingquan and others involved in the crime, the procuratorial organs of Foshan City found that the criminals had caused serious losses to national mineral resources and serious damage to the ecological environment caused serious losses to the national mineral resources by stealing river sand in the Beijiang River Basin, so they filed a public interest lawsuit against Lin Jingquan and others, and recovered more than 2.96 billion yuan in compensation for ecological and environmental damages in accordance with the law.
All 40 targeted fugitives were brought to justice
Chen Junhua, deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Provincial Public Security Department, said that in order to bring the "fish that slipped through the net" to justice, the public security organs in the province launched a chase operation code-named "Iron Net 7". In 2021, all 40 target fugitives in our province will be brought to the case, and the case attendance rate will rank first in the country. Public security organs at the provincial, municipal, and county levels have separately set up command centers for fugitive pursuit operations and issued military orders at each level. During the National Day in 2021, the Provincial Public Security Department's Anti-Organized Crime Office and the Qingyuan City Public Security Organs set up a hunting team to raid thousands of miles overnight and successfully arrested the target fugitive Liu Mouyong in Jiangxi Province.
In 2021, public security organs at all levels in the province set up a leading group for the struggle against organized crime and evil forces headed by the "number one" of public security organs at the provincial, municipal and county levels. 44,700 cases of telecommunications fraud were detected; the "Thunder 2021" joint crackdown operation of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao was organized, more than 670 criminal cases were cracked, and more than 1,100 public security cases were investigated and handled; the "Skylark" series of special cases were launched for the crime of "naked chat" extortion, 1152 cases involving network-related criminal syndicates and evils were cracked, and 2236 suspects were arrested.
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