People's Daily health client Yao Xinran Li Ning
On February 18, according to public reports, at least 15 people were smuggled in from Hong Kong via Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. As of the 18th, the persons traced were involved in Shanghai, Hunan, Fujian, and Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, and Huizhou in Guangdong Province. At present, among the smugglers, 2 in Hunan, 2 in Guangzhou and 1 in Shanghai, a total of 5 people have been diagnosed.
Officers and men of the second detachment of the Guangdong Armed Police Corps on duty patrolled the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Photo by Zhang Le, Xinhua News Agency
On February 17, Shanghai added a new confirmed case imported from Hong Kong smuggling
According to the news released by @Shanghai, from 0:00 to 24:00 on February 17, Shanghai added 13 new imported confirmed cases, of which case 8 was a Chinese national, temporarily residing in Hong Kong, entering the mainland from Hong Kong on February 13, 2022, and arriving in Shanghai by high-speed rail from Zhuhai on February 14. On February 16, it received a notice from Guangdong Province and immediately isolated and controlled it. The nucleic acid test result of the new coronavirus by the municipal and district CDCs is positive. Combined with epidemiological history, clinical symptoms, laboratory tests, and imaging findings, the diagnosis is confirmed as a confirmed case.
The case is a resident of Chinese mainland who resided temporarily in Hong Kong and entered the Mainland from Hong Kong on 13 February 2022. At present, this person has been investigated by the public security organs for the crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases, and his criminal responsibility will be investigated according to law, and his illegal cross-border behavior will be investigated and punished together. The case is under further investigation.
On 16 February, four confirmed cases in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, were illegal entrants from Hong Kong
On February 16, according to the Hong Kong Dagong Wenhui Network, 15 people were smuggled into the country from Hong Kong through Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, and 12 people have been traced, involving Hunan, Fujian and Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan and Huizhou in Guangdong Province.
On 15 February, 2 confirmed cases were reported in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. Chenzhou issued a Notice on February 16 saying that the two cases entered Doumen District of Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, through illegal channels, and then entered Chenzhou via highways using vehicles and mobile phones prepared in advance. At present, the two suspected of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases have been filed and investigated by the public security organs.
On 15 February, Guangzhou added 7 new imported cases, 2 of which were imported from Hong Kong. According to the trajectory of the cases released by the Guangzhou Health Commission on February 16, the two confirmed cases were not centralized and isolated after entering the country, but arrived in Guangzhou by online car, and the itinerary involved 14 key places in 4 districts of Guangzhou.
Many places issued "Notice of Reward for Smuggling Clues Reporting"
In order to crack down on smuggling and strictly prevent and control imported cases, Guangdong, Hunan, Fujian and other places have issued notices on rewards for smuggling clues. In these notices, the amount of rewards for each clue ranges from 5,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan.
On February 16, according to the news of the "Xinhui Release", the Office of the Leading Group for Combating Smuggling in Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, issued a notice to mobilize the broadest masses to participate in the anti-smuggling and anti-smuggling special governance actions, firmly establish the normalization of the "foreign anti-import" defense line for epidemic prevention and control, and effectively prevent the import of overseas epidemics, and decided to set up a reward of 1 million yuan for reporting to implement anti-smuggling and anti-smuggling clues to report rewards.
According to the "Daya Bay Public Security" release, the Public Security Bureau of the Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone in Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, in accordance with the "Implementation Measures for the Public Security Bureau of daya Bay District to Report Illegal Activities of Smuggling and Smuggling (Trial Implementation)", who report clues involved in or engaged in smuggling, smuggling personnel or vessels, and the content is verified to be true, each clue (depending on the facts of the case) will be rewarded with a maximum reward of 500,000 yuan.
In addition, similar circulars were issued in Dongguan, Chaozhou, Zhongshan, Taishan, Wuhua County of Meizhou City, Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai City, As well as Zixing district in Hunan Province and Liucheng Subdistrict Office in Nan'an City, Fujian Province.
The smuggling of COVID-19 patients involves multiple crimes
"Covid-19 patients smuggled back from abroad who are suspected of violating multiple criminal laws may need to bear multiple legal liabilities, which should be determined by the people's court according to their circumstances and consequences." Lawyer Zhan Shuguang, a senior partner at Beijing Xinnuo Law Firm, told the People's Daily health client on February 18 that ordinary smuggling is guilty of illegally crossing the national (border) border and is punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of not more than one year, criminal detention or public surveillance, and a fine. "If you knowingly have COVID-19 and smuggle, the crime may be the crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases, the crime of sneaking across the national (border) border and the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means plus the crime of sneaking across the national (border) border."
"Whoever is suspected of violating article 330 of the Criminal Law and causing the spread of covid-19 or has a serious risk of spreading it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; if the consequences are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years." Lawyer Zhan Shuguang added that this is still relatively serious, and the more serious crime of endangering public safety by dangerous methods is more serious. If a smuggler knows that he or she is a confirmed patient or a carrier of the pathogen, but conceals his illness, conceals his itinerary information, enters a public place or takes public transportation, causing the spread of the new coronavirus, he may also be suspected of violating articles 114 and 115 of the Criminal Law, constituting the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means. If no serious consequences have been caused, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and if he causes serious injury or death or causes serious damage to public or private property, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years, life imprisonment or death.
