Recently, the Laibin Heshan Municipal People's Court held a hearing on a case of illegal cigarette business, and Chen Mouheng and 11 other defendants were charged by the public prosecution organs with the crime of illegal business operation. As the case began, the guest police also held a press briefing to disclose the details of the investigation to the media for the first time.
Case of sale of fake bootleg cigarettes
The amount involved is as high as more than 120 million yuan
Recently, the Laibin police held a press briefing to report on the results of the "Kunlun 2021" special action of the public security organs in Laibin City and the ministerial supervision case - the handling of the "7.10" case of selling fake and private cigarettes in Laibin, Guangxi. According to reports, the amount involved in the "7.10" sales of fake private cigarettes was as high as more than 120 million yuan, and 22 people were involved.
The detection process of this rare case began in March last year, when inspectors of the Laibin Tobacco Bureau discovered that someone had openly carried out fake and private tobacco sales activities on the street.
Feng Yuan, captain of the inspection detachment of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau in Laibin City, introduced, "Selling cigarettes requires a tobacco monopoly license, and this place is illegal and without a license. The variety he sells, for our staff, is a fake cigarette at first glance. ”
"A lot of the cigarettes they sell are not available in our domestic tobacco market, and these cigarettes are of poor quality. If it is an old smoker, you know it every smell, it stinks, and it basically can't burn. But its novel pattern can attract some young people who have tasted new things, or who have not seen this kind of cigarette. Mo Hao, captain of the inspection detachment of the Laibin Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, said that the street is openly sold, and there are many quantities, and the supply seems to be continuous, so blatant, "Is there a gang behind this, otherwise it would not be so bold."
The inspectors tracked and checked the people who sold fake cigarettes, and sure enough, there were new discoveries.
In addition to hiding fake private cigarettes in their respective residences, the gang also leased warehouses specializing in storing fake private cigarettes in Laibin and Liuzhou. Among them, the location of the warehouse of Laibin is particularly outrageous, only seven or eight hundred meters away from the Laibin City Public Security Bureau, and even the whole warehouse can be seen from the upper floor.
Feng Yuan said that the place where the gang stored cigarettes was in a mulberry orchard on an abandoned farm, and the orchard was a transit station, "If there is smoke outside, it will be placed in the orchard and then distributed." In order to avoid risks, the unsold cigarettes are taken home and will not be returned to the orchard. This avoids frequent entry and exit, which can cause suspicion. ”
Counterfeit bootleg cigarettes are openly sold on the side of the road
Lead out the illegal operation of extraordinarily large network gangs
After preliminary investigation, the police learned that the gang occasionally supplied a number of downlines in Xingbin District, Liangjiang, Chengxiang, Bayi and other townships in Laibin City, with a number of more than 100,000 units per day. The case involved a wide range of cigarettes and the huge number of cigarettes involved, and the Laibin Tobacco Monopoly Bureau transferred the case to the Laibin Municipal Public Security Bureau and jointly investigated and dealt with it.
"Wei Moufu, Wei Moujiao, and Wu Mouwei are sold on the side of the road, and the two brothers of Wei Mou are responsible for supplying. Because the network is now very developed, some people supply on WeChat, and the two brothers of Wei drive trams or some relatively light means of transportation to the countryside to deliver. Captain Feng Yuan told reporters.
However, selling 100,000 fake cigarettes every day, the quantity is so large, how did Wei And others get the supply, and is there a larger gang behind these sources of fake cigarettes?
After the follow-up investigation, the police made new discoveries.
Huang Xueyi introduced, "Wei Mou went to Fangchenggang, Fujian and other places in Guangxi before committing the crime, and after going to these places, he learned from the drivers of the motorcycle and taxi drivers where there were fake and shoddy fake cigarettes for sale, and through these people, he learned about and got contact information with these fake cigarettes. ”
After the police filed the case, the investigation found that most of the fake and illegal cigarettes sold by Wei and 5 other people came from a tobacco dealer named Chen Mouheng in Fangchenggang. They trade one or two times a week, with more than 30 fake cigarette brands traded each time. After further investigation, a smuggling gang of overseas cigarettes headed by Chen Mouheng, a port man from Fangcheng, gradually surfaced.
The gangs are huge
Anti-reconnaissance awareness is extremely strong
Mo Hao said that they pulled to the high seas or near the Chinese border through airships and boats, and at sea the airships carried freight to the illegal docks built by the village themselves, "These docks are docks protected by villagers, so it is more difficult for law enforcement personnel to enter the village. ”
"The gang began to sell counterfeit cigarettes in June 2019, the warehouse was only built in the first half of the year before our investigation, after the sales increased, they had to take the cigarettes to their hometown warehouse for storage, and then distribute them to the warehouse, and there was also a purpose of coding." Tobacco has an anti-counterfeiting bar code, this identification code is generally unrecognizable to the naked eye, and can only be identified by special equipment and personnel. Huang Xueyi introduced.
Not only has a solid purchase channel, with the deepening of the investigation, the special case team found that Chen Mouheng also has a huge sales network of fake cigarettes and smuggled cigarettes, and after investigation, its off-line outside the province involves Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Guangdong, Anhui and other provinces and cities.
According to incomplete statistics, Chen Mouheng shipped more than 1.5 million cigarettes to Nanning and outside the province every day, and the amount involved in each shipment of cigarettes was as high as 1 million yuan. The sales line spans so many places and the number is so huge, so before this, the relevant departments did not find this gang? How did they evade the tobacco authorities and the police and spread their minions all over the country?
After tracking and monitoring Chen Mouheng's vehicles, the special case team also found that Chen Mouheng traveled back and forth to Fangcheng Port, Beihai, Nanning and other places almost every morning, and after on-site verification, Chen Mouheng not only supplied to guests, but also had a huge gang of his own and behind the scenes, this gang had a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance, and did not easily show his face when he first started trading with customers.
"New customers will be more vigilant at first, worried that it may be the public security organs fishing, so they will not meet with customers at first." When they deliver the goods, they let their subordinates drive the car to the designated location, put the car keys under the wheels, and then the customer goes to pick up the car, drives the car away, unloads the goods and then parks the car back in place. Liang Dong, instructor of the Public Security Brigade of the Heshan City Public Security Bureau, introduced.
The goods sent to other places are operated through logistics companies, and Chen Mouheng and others have relatively fixed logistics and transportation channels in Nanning.
Meng Weizhen, a police officer of the Laibin City Public Security Bureau Public Security Police Detachment, introduced that he mainly completed the delivery through a person named Jin, "After they handed over the goods to Jin, they then shipped fake cigarettes and smuggled cigarettes through the logistics company, and Jin collected the difference and benefit fees from them." Gu Mouxing, the owner of the logistics company, also knows that this batch of goods is fake cigarettes, but he also ships, in order to earn postage and courier fees. ”
Familial crime
Fake cigarettes are sold to many provinces and cities
After half a year of case operation, the special case team concluded that this was a family-type criminal gang that integrated counterfeiting, illegal tobacco purchase, storage, wholesale, and sales. Chen Mouheng and his eldest brother Chen Mouyao and sister-in-law Ou Mouli were responsible for finding the source of goods, and after the supply was ready, they arranged for their horses Chen Mouwu, Chen Moushou, Deng Moujian and others to deliver goods.
In the process of investigation, because Chen Mouheng and others were more vigilant, the police once thought that the case was difficult to advance.
"At that time, he was chased by the Nanning police once when he transported the goods to Nanning, so he was more cautious, and after stopping for a while, he found that there was no public security to follow him, and there was no further crackdown, so he began to think about it again." When our public security organs saw this situation, they were also more anxious at that time. Later, through the technical department, we found the clues, then patiently waited for the opportunity, and finally found that they were moving again, and we began to deploy. Liang Dong introduced.
The special case team continued to track down and secretly find out the situation of Chen Mouheng, a family-style criminal gang. By September 2020, the time is ripe to collect the network, and the special case team and the Laibin City Urban Tobacco Monopoly Bureau will first collect the network of the counterfeit and illegal tobacco gangs of Wei Mou and 5 other people.
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In October 2020, the special case team arrested Wei's superior, Chen Mouheng, in Hepu County, Beihai City, and seized a batch of cigarettes worth more than 2.96 million yuan, 7 criminal vehicles, a set of cigarette coders, a large number of bank cards, mobile phones and other items worth more than 2.96 million yuan in the warehouse in Quzhang Township, and had an unexpected gain.
Meng Weizhen introduced, "Chen Mouheng has a deal with another Xiong who is also organizing the supply of goods in this part. On the same day, Xiong's side of the supply is relatively tight, he and Fangcheng Port Chen Mouheng to carry out the source of goods retrieval. At that time, the information we had was: Xiong Mou of Beihai took 100,000 yuan in cash and went to trade with Chen Mouheng of Fangcheng Port. At that time, we felt that the time was very ripe for arrest, and then we made an arrest. ”
At the same time, the special case team also arrested Chen Mouyao and ten other people in Fangchenggang City, Shangsi County, and Hepu County at the same time, in addition, during December 2020 and January 2021, Chen Mouheng's downline Huang Moujian and Xiong Moufeng's lower family Wang Moufeng were arrested twice in Nanning, Beihai and other places.
According to statistics, the amount involved in the entire case is as high as more than 120 million yuan. In June 2021, the case was approved by the Ministry of Public Security and the Office of the Leading Group for cracking down on the production and sale of fake cigarettes by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration as a ministerial supervision case.
At present, Wei Mou, Chen Moude and 21 other people have been arrested according to law, of which 5 members of Wei Mou's gang have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five years and six months to six months by the Heshan Municipal People's Court for the crime of illegal business operation, Chen Mouheng and 11 other people have also been tried in recent days, and 11 people have been prosecuted by the public prosecution organs for suspected illegal business operations.
Sentencing will be scheduled for the case.
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