On January 18, 2020, Stanley Prison, the highest garrison in Hong Kong, was surrounded by Chinese and foreign journalists, and the Hong Kong police force and some special forces were also on high alert inside and outside the prison.
This kind of scene is not to prevent someone from robbing the prison, but to release a prisoner who has completed his sentence on the same day, this person is the most murderous bandit in Hong Kong history, Ji Bingxiong.
In the 1980s and 1990s, especially on the eve of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the public security situation in Hong Kong dropped sharply, and many robbery and kidnapping cases of a bad nature occurred.
And it was at that time that a large number of bold and notorious gangsters emerged, and the criminal deeds of these people later became excellent material for Hong Kong screenwriters and directors, shooting a large number of wonderful police films.
The Hong Kong police films of that period were very popular, so these gangsters also became famous in the world, and people also borrowed the name of the movie to call them "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldiers"!
The reason why they are called the provincial hong Kong flag soldiers is mainly because a large number of them are stowaways from the inland, and some of them have served in the People's Liberation Army and participated in actual combat, such as the famous Hunan Tiger and Chen Huju.
On May 1, 1985, Chen Huju led six of his men to rob the Zhongxin Watch with great fanfare knowing that there were more than 100 police ambushes around him.
After the robbery, Chen Huju and his gang engaged in a fierce gun battle with the police, and seven bandits beat dozens of Royal Hong Kong police officers with ten "Black Star" May Fourth pistols in their hands. In the end, Chen Huju and his gang paid the price of only one person seriously injured, abducted nearly 2 million watches, injured police and passers-by, and then left the hostages and fled.
This was the fiercest street shootout in Hong Kong's history, which ended in the victory of the bandits.
Ji Bingxiong also participated in the gunfight, but at that time he was only a younger brother who had just joined Chen Huju's gang, and he was not even a core member.
Chen Huju is a veteran who participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, well-trained, with excellent psychological qualities, facing the small caliber guns of the Hong Kong police, even laughing in the sky, and beating a British inspector to his knees and begging for forgiveness.
Chen Huju's requirements for gang members are also very high, preferably retired veterans of the People's Liberation Army who have participated in actual combat.
The main force in the robbery of Zhongxin Watch was Chen Huju and three other veterans, each armed with two May Fourth pistols, calmly repelling the Hong Kong police.
At that time, Ji Bingxiong and another little brother, who was just a horse boy in charge of the backpack, had no chance to come forward, and he did not have such a skill at that time, nor did he have the guts.
However, after experiencing the baptism of this actual battle, Ji Bingxiong's courage began to swell sharply, and he slowly established himself, opening the second half of his fierce and vicious life.
Ji Bingxiong, also known as Guan Derong, was born in 1960 in Sanshui, Guangdong Province, and his parents were regular employees of state-owned factories, and his family conditions were not bad in that era.
However, due to the lack of strict family discipline, coupled with the fact that this guy has an extreme personality since childhood, it is said that since the age of 10, he has often skipped school and mixed with hooligans on the street.
Later, he mixed the rivers and lakes at the Guangzhou Railway Station, made a living by pickpocketing, and became a professional thief.
In the 1980s, he smuggled himself to Hong Kong with some big hooligans, and he didn't know through what channels he actually got a Hong Kong identity card and became a Hong Kong citizen.
After arriving in Hong Kong, Ji Bingxiong worked peacefully for several months, but the heavy labor and meager salary could not satisfy his appetite.
So he returned to his old business and became a pickpocket, and when he was a thief, he could not avoid being caught, so Ji Bingxiong became a regular customer in Hong Kong prisons, and a few in and out became a common thing.
At that time, Hong Kong law gave a very light sentence to crimes such as pickpocketing, and it was released within a few months of detention. However, Ji Bingxiong made many "friends on the rivers and lakes" in prison.
These people are the scum of Hong Kong society, the so-called underworld people, among whom there are robbers, drug dealers, pimps and even arms dealers, in short, pickpockets like Ji Bingxiong are the lowest-level criminals.
Through them, Ji Bingxiong opened his eyes and realized that he was too bad at pickpocketing, and that what people did was a big cause, and it was only when they made a lot of money that they made money.
In prison, he became acquainted with Huang Zhiming of the Big Circle Gang, and because Ji Bingxiong fought very fiercely in prison, he was pulled by Huang Zhiming as a younger brother. After his release from prison, he was introduced to the Big Circle Gang.
The so-called big circle gang is a small circle spontaneously formed by mainland stowaways, who use the region as a symbol to form gangs and gangs, and when they encounter difficulties in their hometowns, they will stand up, which is somewhat similar to the underworld organization of the hometown association.
Ji Bingxiong admires Huang Zhiming very much and wants to do a big robbery jewelry store after he is released from prison, but Huang Zhiming has already washed his hands and not dried his hands. So he turned to Chen Huju, who was quite prestigious in the big circle gang, and it happened that Chen Huju was recruiting soldiers and looking for candidates, and the clever Ji Bingxiong became his little brother.
From Ji Bingxiong's early experience, we can see that this person has a very flexible brain and good communication skills, although he is not famous, but his connections are very extensive.
In early 1985, Chen Huju led Ji Bingxiong and others back to the mainland to prepare for the robbery and procure the necessary firearms and equipment.
Chen Huju is a professional soldier, the requirements for the materials and equipment that need to be prepared are very high, in addition to guns and ammunition, he also decided to equip each gang member with a set of body armor.
And this batch of body armor is Ji Bingxiong through his own relationship procurement, and the quality is reliable.
According to the records, Chen Huju and his gang stayed in the mainland for four months, during which time Chen Huju must have trained them, and Ji Bingxiong should have mastered the use and dismantling of guns at this stage.
Chen Huju and his gang were later informed undercover and eventually arrested by the Hong Kong police, but Ji Bingxiong escaped early.
Since Ji Bingxiong is not a core member and has no previous record of serious cases, he has not attracted the attention of the Hong Kong police. But no one thought that this seemingly insignificant horse boy already had the ambition to surpass the big brother at this time.
On October 29, 1986, a year after the zhongxin watch robbery, three bandits robbed the AiYunjia Jewelry Store in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, and the jewelry worth 400,000 yuan was robbed.
Jewelry security guards' guns were also snatched, and arrogant gangsters fired three shots in demonstrations before intercepting two taxis in the street to escape.
The mastermind of this robbery is Ji Bingxiong, and after the incident, the Hong Kong police analyzed the bullets extracted at the scene and concluded that the bandits used the "Black Star" May Fourth pistol.
The three bandits had a clear purpose and a sharp action, and the whole crime process took only more than twenty seconds, the security guards were directly subdued, and the guns were snatched.
In addition, the police did not find any other clues, and the undercover agents and informants they installed in various gangs did not find any clues, and the case later became a suspense case.
At that time, some people also associated the previous year's loyal table robbery according to the "Black Star" pistol, and the bandits also used the Black Star. However, that group of people was extremely arrogant, and the professional quality of professional soldiers was excellent, which was different from this robbery, so ji Bingxiong was not suspected.
But just half a year later, in February 1987, the Junwen Gem Shop at Landmark Central was robbed by three bandits, and more than 2 million pieces of jewelry were robbed.
There was also a small episode in this robbery, after the robbers rushed out of the jewelry store, they accidentally rushed into the Central shopping mall, because they had not come, they rushed inside and almost got lost.
The bandits also did not leave any traces, according to the clerks present who responded that the other party spoke pure Cantonese, either Hong Kong or Cantonese. But in addition, the police still did not find any clues.
Two and a half years later, on September 7, 1989, three masked bandits burst into the Dickson Jewelry Store at the China Construction Building in Central, Hong Kong, and snatched more than $2 million worth of watches at gunpoint.
Both cases were committed by Ji Bingxiong, but his accomplices were not the same group of people, and it is said that after Ji Bingxiong recruited his accomplices, he only committed crimes with them once, and then immediately divided the money and dispersed the gang. And his accomplices didn't know his true identity.
After the 1987 robbery, Ji Bingxiong sneaked back to Guangdong and married in his hometown, disappearing for two years. He later planned to immigrate to Canada, but did not have enough money, so he carried out another robbery in September 1989.
With enough money, Ji Bingxiong immigrated to Canada, where his wife gave birth to a girl, and the name he gave his daughter "Jewel"!
If Ji Bingxiong was still a raw melon egg in the Zhongxin Table robbery, then since then he has suddenly become a daring bandit.
I have to admit that Ji Bingxiong's courage is indeed very big, and his mind is very calm, he must have made careful preparations for these cases, and his actions are very crisp and clean, so that the police have not suspected him until the nineties.
The police have always thought that these cases are unrelated cases, but they did not expect that all of them came from Ji Bingxiong.
At this time, in Ji Bingxiong's view, Hong Kong's jewelry store is like his own bedroom, if he is short of money, he will go to get some use, and there is no pressure to grab it.
Five years later, Ji Bingxiong was short of money again, and he sneaked back to Hong Kong from Canada, recruited two accomplices again, and made the same meticulous preparations as before. This time Ji Bingxiong wants to do a big vote.
On April 27, 1994, three masked bandits stormed the DXN watch shop at the Queen Elizabeth Building in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, armed with guns and threatening the clerk to put nearly 7 million yuan worth of watches into their pockets, and then disappeared into the sea of people.
Having experienced the robbery of zhongxin watches, Ji Bingxiong is very experienced, and he no longer bothered to smash the counter jewelry, but threatened the clerk with a gun to do this, saving time and effort.
This time, Ji Bingxiong's appetite was very large, 7 million jewels were not enough, just over 20 days later, on May 18, he led two accomplices to rob the Golden Wheel Watch Shop of Swire Building in Central.
After robbing a large number of jewels, they fled in a hurry, not wanting to be chased by the police at the Central subway station, and the two sides then engaged in a shootout in the crowd.
The shootout killed one female passerby, injured several police officers and fled the scene unscathed by 3 bandits. This time, the Hong Kong police were completely enraged, and they mobilized their elite forces to vow to bring the murderers to justice.
But after that, Ji Bingxiong once again disappeared, after all, so much money was enough for him to squander for a while. At this time, Ji Bingxiong should be secretly happy in his heart, and he finally surpassed his eldest brother Chen Huju and seriously injured the police in the street.
Four years later, Ji Bingxiong sneaked back to Hong Kong again, and on April 20, 1998, he led people into the Dickson Watch and Jewelry Store at the Royal Mansion in Causeway Bay, snatching more than 3 million worth of jewelry.
A month later, on May 20, he robbed the Chow Tai Fook Jewelry Store on Buddet New Street in Causeway Bay, robbing the same area within a month, without paying any attention to the Hong Kong police.
After analyzing the cases over the years, the Hong Kong police suspect that these cases may have been committed by the same group of bandits.
Three years later, Ji Bingxiong sneaked back to Hong Kong again to prepare for the crime, this time recruiting 3 accomplices and stepping on the streets of Hong Kong to prepare.
On May 22, a group of four people near the Taiping Road overpass were stopped by three plainclothes police officers for inspection due to their suspicious appearance. Ji Bingxiong immediately pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the police and fired three shots in a row, and the three police officers fell to the ground in response, seriously injured, and the bandits immediately fled the scene.
Although he has appeared in his original form and is wanted by the police, Ji Bingxiong does not care, and his plan is still going on as usual, quite like the style of Chen Huju at that time.
A month later, on June 25, three bandits broke into the Mong Kok Founding Center Xiyun Jia Watch Shop, snatched nearly 3 million yuan of watches, and then fled, the same modus operandi as before.
At this time, the Hong Kong police have also targeted Ji Bingxiong's body, although Ji Bingxiong is very cautious, but after so many cases, his reputation has become famous all over the world, there are many people in the jianghu who admire him, and his legends are also many.
At the same time, he needs an efficient recruitment team and a network of stolen goods, which cannot be completely invisible.
In July 2001, the police successfully dismantled a large criminal gang with close ties to Ji Bingxiong, who himself gradually emerged.
After basically determining that the main perpetrator of so many robberies in Hong Kong was Ji Bingxiong, the Hong Kong police issued a red notice to the world through Interpol and offered a reward of 2 million Hong Kong dollars for the arrest of Ji Bingxiong.
Such a high prize is the highest record in Hong Kong's history, and no one has been able to break it so far.
After the handover, the efficiency of the Hong Kong police has been greatly improved, and they have worked closely with the police in the mainland and Macao to lay a network of heaven and earth. After more than two years of secret investigation, ji Bingxiong's traces finally reappeared in Hong Kong in late 2003 after more than two years of secret investigation.
On December 24, 2003, on Christmas Eve, the Hong Kong police dispatched hundreds of elite troops to quietly surround Ji Bingxiong's hiding place and arrest him in one fell swoop.
A large number of guns, bullets and grenades were also found at Ji Bingxiong's residence.
When the thief King Ji Bingxiong was arrested, all walks of life in Hong Kong clapped their hands and praised the Hong Kong police for sending a big Christmas gift to the public. The thief king, who had been running for 17 years, was finally arrested.
After Ji Bingxiong's arrest, he spent a lot of money to hire a senior lawyer to exonerate himself. Although Hong Kong had been returned to the motherland at that time, Hong Kong laws were originally formulated by the British, and the highest authority in the legal field had always been controlled by the British.
Therefore, as long as you have money, you can hire a senior lawyer, no matter what kind of crime you commit, the lawyer can find a way to excuse you.
Under the guidance of a lawyer, Ji Bingxiong refused to admit all robberies. According to Hong Kong law, as long as there is no direct evidence, the suspect bites to death and does not admit it, it is difficult for the court to convict from logical inference and side evidence.
When the police charged Ji Bingxiong with robbery and murder, Ji Bingxiong denied that he was Ji Bingxiong in court, but insisted that his name was Guan Derong.
At that time, he had immigrated to the United States, and this was the name used in the United States, and he had a legal passport. And the wanted photo used by the police is a photo of Ji Bingxiong when he was young, which is very different from ji Bingxiong, who was forty-three years old at the time, with gray hair and a haggard face.
Even some members of the jury did not believe that he was the same person as the person in the photo, and Ji Bingxiong was very polite to the judge and the jury in court, and performed very well, which should have been carefully guided by the lawyer to win sympathy.
Because Ji Bingxiong used a different name and passport every time he entered the country, the Immigration Administration department did not have his information, and the information on his early years on the mainland was relatively missing and could not be verified.
The police tried to contact his family, but he hid them in Canada, and the police couldn't find them. In the end, it was impossible to confirm his true identity, and the robbery could not be discussed.
The police immediately indicted him on these charges because of the discovery of a large number of illegal firearms and ammunition at his residence, arguing that the house was rented and that the items were inside when he came.
He had also taken out these guns to observe carefully, so he had his own fingerprints on them, and this paragraph was obviously a lie, after all, people had stolen money, and he could not argue.
In the end, the arrogant bandit, who ran rampant for seventeen years, created 16 robberies, and caused 1 death and 19 injuries, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for illegal entry and illegal possession of firearms.
In prison, Ji Bingxiong was sentenced to 7 years for good performance, and eventually he ran amok for 17 years, served 17 years in prison, and on January 18, 2020, he was released after completing his sentence.
Because he previously held a U.S. passport, he was deported and returned to the United States by the Hong Kong police after his release from prison. Allegedly, after Ji Bingxiong got off the plane, a mysterious woman greeted him at the airport, and then the two left the airport.
Who this mysterious woman is, we still don't know. But what is certain is that Ji Bingxiong must have left enough wealth for his family before he was arrested, and such a thief of Jiangyang can end up in peace in his old age, which has to be said to be a great irony of Hong Kong law!
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