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"Not bad! There are big fish! ”
On December 4, 1998, in Huilai, Guangdong, the fishermen pulled their nets to collect fish as usual, and the fishermen rejoiced in their hearts, just because the "harvest" of this day was heavier than before!
Who knows, when the fishing net is pulled to the boat, the fishermen see not a big fish, but a carrion corpse!
And this rotting corpse is not simple at first glance, there is a large iron block tied to its body, this is not an ordinary drowning! It's murder!
The fishermen immediately lost the mood to fish, drove the boat to the shore, and immediately called the police when they reached the shore.
Ten days later, in Shanwei, Guangdong, a fisherman salvaged a body that was also tied to a heavy object.
The two victims were killed at the same time, and the perpetrators had similar methods, and their appearance pointed to a missing giant ship that the police were tracking, the "Changsheng" steamer that disappeared near Shanwei!
The 10,000-ton giant ship mysteriously disappeared
On November 17, 1998, the staff of the Hong Kong Huibo Shipping Company called the ships under the company's name in accordance with the usual practice, which was a normal move, but obtained an abnormal result.
The company's "Changsheng" bulk carrier seemed to have disappeared, and it has not replied to the company's past messages.
The clerk thought it was strange and wrote it down as usual.
By the next morning, the company still hadn't heard anything from the freighter, which sent the company into a panic and they immediately reported the situation to the authorities.
The ship sailed from Shanghai to Malaysia, and from experience, this route is often relatively safe, and everyone thinks that it will not be a "bad thing".
I never thought that under the joint search of the maritime authorities of Guangzhou, Beijing, Hong Kong and other cities, as well as Malaysia, Singapore and other countries, nothing was found, and the Changsheng was like disappearing! Trace!
Before the Changsheng was found, there was still hope in people's hearts, hoping that they would simply disappear from the communication interface due to the failure of the communication equipment.
However, with the addition of other ships, as well as military aircraft and armies of various countries, this possibility is getting smaller and smaller, and all signs indicate that the Changsheng is no longer traveling in the South China Sea, and the 10,000-ton freighter is either driven away or is in the sea.
When the time came to December, the appearance of the corpse completely broke the expectations in people's hearts, and people successively fished out 10 corpses from Jieyang, Shanwei and other places, and these corpses were finally confirmed to be the crew members of the Changsheng!
The case of the disappearance of a giant ship became a case of piracy and murder, and the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department quickly organized a special team to investigate the case.
However, in the vast sea, the ship is gone, and the 10 corpses can only be seen that they were subjected to extreme cruelty before their deaths. What happened in the South China Sea more than half a month ago?
The mob is inhumane
Back on November 13, in Shanghai, China, the Changsheng freighter loaded with slag departed from here for Malaysia.
The shipment is worth 25 million, which is not a large amount for the shipping company, but for some gangsters, it is a windfall.
At the same time, at the port of Dongshan in Fujian, two speedboats pretending to be "anti-smuggling boats" went out to sea to hunt, and their target was not the fish in the sea, but the freighter cruise ship traveling on the sea.
There were 20 people on board the two speedboats, led by Chinese Jia Hongwei and Indonesian Sonwei, a group of international pirates who specialized in pretending to be smugglers on board to rob.
At noon on November 16, the pirates, who had not found their "prey" for several days, suddenly dawned on their eyes, and the Changsheng freighter was slowly sailing into the sea area they were observing.
"There's a business!"
Under Jia Hongwei's command, the two speedboats approached the Changsheng, because they were disguised as anti-smuggling boats, and the crew of the Changsheng did not suspect them, and the captain stopped the ship.
The pirates geared up and leaned in with their weapons, perhaps in a hurry, or perhaps because the wind and waves were too strong, and one of the speedboats crashed directly into the Changsheng.
Eighteen vicious pirates rushed to the ship, and by the time the crew reacted, it was too late.
The pirates first seized the wheelhouse, and the captain crouched down with his head in his hands under the threat of their machetes and shotguns, and had to watch as the pirates took over the freighter.
All corners of the freighter were controlled by pirates one after another, all the crew members were locked in the storage room of the freighter, some were so frightened that they cried loudly, some people directly collapsed to the ground, and more people were silently praying, hoping that this group of pirates was just asking for money and not taking people's lives.
After seizing control of the freighter, the pirates immediately turned off the communication system and positioning system, and drove the freighter to the open sea, and the freighter "disappeared".
When they found out that the ship was full of cinders, the pirates were furious, because it was the most difficult cargo to take with them, and they had to sell it with the ship.
The pirates waited a week before they received news from their accomplices on shore that an Indonesian doing business in Singapore was willing to pay for a ship for $300,000.
The pirates knew the price was low, but they couldn't do that much, so they had to say yes and wait for the man to come and get the ship.
On the night of November 24, 23 crew members were escorted to the deck, and the Indonesians were going to take the ship, not the crew, so none of them could stay.
Under the command of Sonville, the pirates slaughtered the crew, and Jia Hongwei, Zhang Guoqiang and others brandished machetes and slashed at their compatriots.
In the process, Sonny Wei also took out a camera to record the bloody case that happened in the deep sea, and in just ten minutes, all 23 Chinese crew members were killed and buried in the sea.
Soon after, the Changsheng was handed over to an Indonesian, and Sonwei and other pirates returned to Fujian in a speedboat, and then went their separate ways.
By the time the police found the body and began to investigate the case, the pirates had already disappeared into the vast sea of people, and for the police, the difficulty of reconnaissance was unprecedented!
There were very few clues, and the police found another way
The navy and air force of various countries searched and searched, but they never found the Changsheng, and the special case team could only adjust the direction of the investigation of the case to the side of the robbers.
However, the police can now say that there are almost no clues, and they can only confirm that the Changsheng disappeared in the sea area between Shanwei in Guangdong Province and Dongshan in Fujian Province.
The coastline adjacent to this sea area is densely populated with ports that cover millions of people, not to mention the possibility of international criminal organizations.
However, there is no end to the road, and just when the task force was worried, there was good news from Shanwei.
It turned out that as early as mid-November, when the case had just occurred, Li Zilu, a criminal policeman of the Shanwei City Public Security Bureau, received a "wind": He said that a Shanwei man had contracted an "anti-smuggling boat" in Fujian, and that his boat had collided with a steamer some time ago, and the bow of the boat had broken down.
Li Zilu didn't think it was valuable news at the time, and it wasn't until he heard that the Changsheng freighter had disappeared and more than 20 people on board had been killed, that he realized that there might be some connection.
He immediately reported the situation to the director, who in turn took him to report to the members of the task force organized in the city.
After analyzing the situation, the members of the task force felt that this was not a coincidence, and that the "anti-smuggling boat" was very likely to be related to the disappearance of the Changsheng, and the Shanwei police immediately dispatched and went straight to Dongshan, Fujian.
In Dongshan Port, Fujian, the police found the speedboat, and after the appraisers arrived at the scene, they brought back the paint on the bow that did not belong to the speedboat back to the laboratory.
Following this anti-smuggling boat, the shipowner Huang Daming came into the police's sight, and he had already heard the rumors and ran back to Shanwei from Fujian, preparing to escape to Southeast Asia by boat.
But no matter how fast it is, the police in Shanwei immediately set up control, and soon grasped Huang Daming's whereabouts, and on January 2, 1999, in a simple residence in a ravine, Huang Daming was arrested by the police.
In the face of conclusive evidence, Huang Daming had no other choice and told everything he knew, among which Sonny Wei and Weng Siliang were identified as the masterminds.
From the mouth of another suspect named Huang Weizhong, the police got hold of Jia Hongwei. Then, more and more suspects came into the police's field of vision, and a huge arrest operation began.
In Shenzhen, a team of criminal police was ready to take action against Jia Hongwei, but they never thought that this person had extremely strong anti-reconnaissance ability, and he also tried to resist arrest with a gun.
The criminal police could only squat and wait for Jia Hongwei to relax his vigilance and believe that he was "not targeted by the police" before coming out to arrest him.
The arrest of the Indonesian Sonwe was just as thrilling, with the police cutting off the water and electricity in his rental house and waiting for the occupants to go out to check before rushing in and taking him under control.
At that time, Sonville had a loaded pistol at hand, but if he was a little slower, or he noticed something, it was a fierce battle.
Eight months later, Weng Siliang was also brought to justice, and the arrest was nearing its end, with 38 people arrested.
Weng Siliang and Sonny Wei are both Indonesians who came to China to work, but they didn't do good things, and they thought that the money was too slow, so they thought about engaging in criminal activities.
Weng Siliang was mainly responsible for the liaison work, while Sony Wei and a group of thugs went to sea to "work".
According to the confession of the suspect during the interrogation, the idea of killing the Chinese crew was made by Sonway, and he killed the most ruthless and cruel means.
In 2000, the transnational pirates robbed and killed a Chinese freighter, killing 23 people at sea, and 12 people, including Weng Siliang and Sonvi, were sentenced to death, paying with their lives for their crimes.
The whereabouts of the stolen Changsheng have been a mystery ever since.
Some people say that he was converted into another freighter by buyers, and some people think that he has become a pile of scrap metal, but what the truth is, maybe no one will know anymore!
References:
Long-form: New China's largest maritime robbery and homicide case investigation record_Social News_News Center_Sina.com
The first-instance verdict of the "Changsheng" round robbery case The murderer was severely punished_Domestic News_News Center_Sina.com