At the end of July this year, in Bole City, Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xu, a bank lobby manager, found an anomaly when combing through his accounts: 10 days ago, a man named Chen Liang applied for three savings cards in succession, and within the next 10 days, these three savings cards had large amounts of money ranging from 100,000 yuan to 1 million yuan every day. This is a clear feature of money laundering crimes.
The bank quickly reported the suspicion to the police. After multiple investigations, the location of the suspect's den gradually became clear, and according to the regional division, this illegal clue was handed over to the Economic and Technological Development Zone (Toutunhe District) Branch of the Urumqi Public Security Bureau for investigation.
On August 6, the bureau's criminal investigation brigade smashed the money-laundering den, arresting 13 suspects suspected of aiding information network criminal activities.
The picture shows that the Urumqi police arrested some criminal suspects on August 6. Photo by Silver Caleb
The average age of these people is 25 years. Among them, the 25-year-old promise is the leader, and in just two months, he led the "little brother" to frantically launder 60 million yuan for overseas telecommunications network fraud criminal gangs.
Recently, in the face of an interview with reporters, Xu promised to recall that illusory and presumptuous time. Here's his statement:
The way to make money from "big brother"
Because I wanted to be a "big brother", I was exposed to money laundering.
After dropping out of secondary school, I have been working odd jobs and running construction sites for five years in a row, which is boring and tiring, and most importantly, the salary is not enough to meet my daily needs. Although I am only 25 years old, I have already become the "big brother" of a group of "little brothers" who have dropped out of school and worked by virtue of being able to speak well and invite guests to dinner. Being a "big brother" made me addicted, and I needed more money to maintain my own small circle.
In June 2022, through the introduction of a friend, I met Chen Ke in a southern province in my hometown.
When we met, Chen Ke, dressed in gold and silver, was lying on a luxurious sofa, and the decoration of his home was full of luxury, which made me very excited. "Found the big boss!" I said to myself in my heart.
In order to seize the opportunity and express my sincerity, I knelt down and lit a cigarette for Chen Ke, and begged him to accept me as a "little brother" in a low voice, just so that I could live a life of brocade clothes and food.
Chen Ke readily agreed. He bluntly said that his cooperation with overseas telecommunications network fraud criminal gangs mainly relies on bank cards to engage in money laundering, "fraud, gambling, extortion, the money of these gangs is not clean." So we need to 'launder' the money so that they can spend it legally. Chen Ke said. He took a high fee from it, and after only 2 years, he pointed to the luxuriously renovated house and said to me: "I built it all for it!" ”
I was moved, and immediately handed in my 4 bank cards and got 8,000 yuan reward.
Seeing that this was making money, I immediately asked my "little brother" to apply for a bank card in order to sell it for money. However, in the process of applying for the card, I found that the local government maintained a strict crackdown on the "two cards" crime, and there were many restrictions on bank card processing, which may be detected by the police if I did not pay attention to it.
Making money is important, self-protection is even more important.
After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to try my luck in the provinces. At the first stop, I set my sights on Xinjiang.
At the beginning of July this year, I took seven "little brothers" to Xinjiang by train.
I remember very well that on the night we arrived in Urumqi, we did not stop, got off the train and got on the train, and took advantage of the night to step on the train again. On the following 3 days, we went to various niche banks in Bole and Wusu and opened a number of bank cards.
After returning to Urumqi, I rented a different hotel with my "little brother" in order to hide my eyes. At the same time, I began to contact Chen Ke and use bank cards to help him launder money remotely.
The first time I operated, I was in the hotel room, closed the curtains, confirmed that the door was locked, then turned on the computer, took out the bank card and online banking equipment, and received the money and transferred money according to Chen Ke's request on the phone. It only takes 3 seconds to enter the payment password, but the money paid with it is often hundreds of thousands of yuan.
By the next morning, I had transferred millions of dollars. It's crazy! With excitement and anticipation, I went to sleep.
In just one day, I was paid 4,000 yuan. The feeling of "getting rich overnight" filled my body, and I hurriedly beckoned my "little brother" to go out to drink, dinner, bathe, and sing, and overnight, 4,000 yuan was squandered.
After experiencing the "happiness" of squandering, you are not willing to live an ordinary life. Since then, I have frequently recommended this business to "little brothers" in my hometown, friends and even netizens I met playing games.
"Money laundering or not? 1,000 yuan a day!" This phrase became my mantra. Previously, Chen Ke promised me that the commission for me to provide a bank card was 2,000 yuan, for this reason, I divided half of my energy to attract "popularity", just to form a team, fine water, long flow, more money, great temptation.
Soon, our small team grew to 13 people.
The road to doom
Chen Liang is the most eye-catching "little brother", he is good at observing words and colors, and summed up a set of "card secrets" by himself, so I put him in charge of the training of the whole team.
At the same time, I adhere to the principle of "do not show up for matters involving identity information", and divide the team into "Kanon" and "little brother" levels, with the "little brother" coming forward to train, supervise and assign tasks, and "Kanon" will come forward to handle the card. In this way, I can eliminate traces of my involvement and avoid the police.
In addition, in order to avoid causing trouble when "Kanon" receives too much remuneration, or wants to withdraw when he gets money, I often withhold his remuneration on the grounds that his bank card has not yet been activated and the flow of funds is not smooth. That way, they can always be used by me.
Heading into August, everything went as I expected. During this period, we attracted nearly 100 people through the network to open bank accounts to facilitate money laundering.
The more money I earned, the more panicked my heart became, and just when I was about to stop, the road to doom began. In the early morning of August 6, when I was operating money laundering, the door was suddenly opened, and a group of police officers rushed in.
"How much was 'washed'?" The police asked.
I was shocked, and then I realized that the police had already known about our business.
"60 million yuan." I say.
End
"We seized 18 mobile phones and seized 15 bank cards on the spot." Yin Haixu, a police officer from the criminal investigation brigade of the Economic and Technological Development Zone (Toutunhe District) branch of the Urumqi Public Security Bureau in charge of the case, told reporters. Previously, after receiving reports of abnormal situations, the police promptly deployed control, carefully explored and arranged, and arrested the criminal suspects in one fell swoop when the conditions were ripe. Contrary to what the promises had imagined, the Xinjiang police's ability to foresee and crack down on the "two cards" crime was very strong!
At present, the case is being further investigated.
Tips from the police:
The general public, especially young people, should enhance their awareness of prevention and ability to identify, pay attention to protecting personal identity information and bank account information, and avoid being misappropriated by lawbreakers; Do not rent or lend personal payment information such as QR codes and account numbers to avoid becoming a money laundering tool. (The characters involved in the article are pseudonyms)
Author|Rule of Law Daily all-media reporter Pan Congwu correspondent Zhao Shucheng collated
Source|Rule of Law Daily