Recently, under the unified command of the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department and the Shaoxing City Public Security Detachment, the Shaoxing Shengzhou police smashed a gang that used online platforms to introduce prostitution across provinces, arrested a total of 312 people involved in the case, and verified that the illegal profits involved in the case were more than 1,200 yuan.
In November last year, the Shengzhou police in Shaoxing found through online inspections that some people used instant messaging software such as "Momo" and "Lianxin" to publish information about soliciting prostitution.
In further investigation, the police found that the people who posted information soliciting prostitutes on the Internet used fictitious names and identities, which made the investigation difficult. After several months of tracking, the Shengzhou police gradually sorted out the clues of this gang.
Chen Jian, Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Brigade of the Shengzhou Public Security Bureau: Starting from 2022, they will gradually develop from Dongyang to surrounding counties and cities, forming a gang that introduces prostitution and provides door-to-door services. Later, through the way of villagers leading villagers, the number of people increased, and a prostitution industry chain was formed.
It has been learned that most of this gang is composed of people from Xingren County, Guizhou, who have formed groups and practiced the pattern of one or two women who have lost their feet and transported them to 20 counties and cities in six regions, including Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Jinhua, to provide door-to-door prostitution services.
Chen Jian, Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Brigade of the Shengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau: Their foothold is mainly in Dongyang City, Zhejiang, but the location of prostitution is in the surrounding counties and cities of Dongyang City, including Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jinhua, Taizhou, Lishui, Quzhou and other six prefectures and cities. In the local area, the price of prostitution is 300 to 400 yuan each time, and on our side it can reach a price of 500 to 800 yuan.
After understanding the criminal pattern of the gang, the Shengzhou police set up a special work team with capable police forces such as public security, network security, and operational reconnaissance, and sorted out the criminal gang headed by criminal suspects Huang, Zou and others.
With sufficient investigation and conclusive evidence, from November last year to March this year, the Shaoxing police dispatched 18 action teams and more than 200 arresting police forces to carry out three waves of unified network collection operations against the organization and the prostitution ring.
Chen Jian, Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Brigade of the Shengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau: We chose to arrest at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, when most of the suspects were still sleeping, and we carried out simultaneous net collection in Dongyang, Yiwu and Jinhua.
A total of 55 coercive measures were taken in the three arrests, 41 prostitutes were arrested, including 7 underage women, 216 prostitutes were arrested, and 11 vehicles and more than 100 mobile phones were seized at the scene.
Zhang Xiaodong, director of the Shengzhou City Public Security Bureau: This case is a province-wide case of extraordinarily large organized prostitution, and so far more than 300 suspects have been arrested, 55 people have been taken compulsory measures, more than 50 criminal dens have been destroyed, more than 1,200 yuan of funds involved in the case have been verified, and a gang of Guizhou nationality involved in pornography has been smashed in one fell swoop in 6 prefectures and 20 counties and municipalities in our province.
The division of labor in cross-regional group prostitution is clearly proportional
More than 300 criminal suspects have been arrested in the whole case, and the number is indeed staggering. So how exactly does this online prostitution ring work? What are the features?
The police learned that the gang had been entrenched in Baiyun Street, Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province for a long time, and carried out cross-regional prostitution activities by recruiting fellow villagers, drivers, and women who had lost their footing.
The chatter, the driver, the lost women formed a small team, the team has a clear division of labor, each performing its own duties, chattering through the Internet chat software to solicit prostitutes, the driver every night to pick up the lost women to Shaoxing Shengzhou, Xinchang, Zhuji and other places of the hotel, apartment to provide prostitution services, while responsible for protection, lookout, at the same time most of the drivers take into account the function of chatter.
Yin Yuanfeng, police officer of the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Brigade of the Shengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau: Talking about the price through niche software will be banned, and after they negotiate the price on WeChat, the general price ranges from 500 to 800 yuan. If the client is satisfied with the woman who has lost her footing, the one-time service will be completed.
These small groups also occasionally cooperate, they introduce each other and make profits together, forming a fixed organization and introduction of prostitution.
Yin Yuanfeng, police officer of the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Brigade of the Shengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau: If they are not satisfied, then the chatters will contact other chatters and ask them to bring their own runaway women to provide sexual services to the prostitutes, and they will return to the Dongyang den after completing the service every day.
Once the business is successful, the runaway woman gets half of the prostitution money, and the other half goes to the chatter.
Boyfriends take girlfriends into prostitution, and women are younger
Among the 41 women arrested by the police, 7 of them are minors, and the youngest is only 14 years old, and many of them will bring their girlfriends to participate.
Chen Jian, Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Brigade of the Shengzhou Public Security Bureau: Many of them are men and women, and they are in a cooperative relationship, or even a couple.
On April 29, the two suspects in this case, Huang and Zou, were transferred by the Shengzhou police to the procuratorate for prosecution on suspicion of organizing prostitution.
Source | Yueniu News