Hangzhou Xiaoshan, where 22 people were arrested, cracked a case involving more than 8 million yuan in illegal sales of fake cigarettes

Recently, the reporter learned from the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau of Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou City that the bureau and the public security department jointly launched a special crackdown deployment meeting on the work of cracking down on counterfeiting and breaking the network at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, and carried out the second round of centralized network collection operations on the "9.18" illegal sale of fake cigarettes. The total amount involved in the case exceeded 8 million yuan, and 22 people involved in the case were successfully arrested, becoming the largest centralized network collection operation in the history of Hangzhou's Xiaoshan District.

The picture shows the district tobacco monopoly bureau and the public security department to carry out the deployment meeting of the network collection action in tobacco-related criminal cases

It is understood that the case originated in the second half of 2021, the Xiaoshan District Tobacco Monopoly Bureau based on intelligence clues, learned that there are retail households in the jurisdiction to sell counterfeit cigarettes and the number is large, it jointly set up a special team with the public security department to file a case investigation.

With the in-depth development of the investigation and handling of the case, the staff found that the case involved a large number of people, complex network relations, and secret means of committing the crime, which brought certain difficulties to the investigation. After several months of investigation and evidence collection, the special case team gave full play to the role of information technology in promoting the investigation and handling of the case, and clarified the "trajectory" of the crime in the case by combing the relationship between "human flow", "logistics" and "capital flow". In order to achieve a full chain of cases and a network of crackdowns, the special case team formulated a detailed arrest plan to overcome the impact of the epidemic and carry out simultaneous arrest of criminal suspects in various regions of Zhejiang Province.

The reporter learned that the two operations dispatched more than 130 people from public security and tobacco, and the soldiers divided into 20 groups controlled all the members of the case and a number of offline physical stores selling counterfeits in one fell swoop, smashed 16 retail terminals that sold counterfeits without licenses, seized more than 1,200 illegal cigarettes, the physical case value was more than 170,000 yuan, and the amount involved exceeded 8 million yuan.

In the next step, the Xiaoshan District Tobacco Monopoly Bureau will continue to exert the sharp knife power of digital technology based on the current situation of the market in the jurisdiction, strengthen the close cooperation with public security and other departments, find out the channels for the purchase of fake cigarettes in the upper family, dig down new clues, further expand the results, actively respond to the phenomenon of tobacco-related crimes in different forms, and effectively maintain the order of the cigarette market.