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Drug trafficking is a criminal act that cannot be seen in the sun, usually carried out underground and extremely hidden. However, in reality, there is a big drug dealer who has been "high-profile drug trafficking" for more than 30 kilograms for more than a year, and after WeChat received the order, he sent Ma Zai to deliver "takeaway" and directly left the drugs on the side of the road. Whoever wants to buy drugs, he does not refuse to come, and he is not afraid of credit; whoever wants to serve him, even if he is a fugitive, he dares to accept it.
On June 29, the Loudi City Intermediate People's Court openly tried the case of defendant Zeng Dehong and 17 others for organizing, leading, and participating in a mafia-type organization in accordance with law and pronounced a verdict in court. Photo by Chen Xiaoming
On June 29, 2020, the main offender, Zeng Dehong, was sentenced to death and executed immediately for 14 crimes, including the crime of organizing and leading a mafia-type organization, the crime of trafficking and transporting drugs, the crime of illegal detention, the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, the crime of gathering a crowd to fight, the crime of intentional homicide, the crime of intentional injury, the crime of rape, the crime of illegal possession of firearms, the crime of fraud, and the crime of opening a casino. In addition, defendant Wang Chengxian was sentenced to death and immediately executed; two key members were sentenced to suspended death; 5 others were sentenced to life in prison; and 8 members of the underworld organization were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 12 to 25 years.
"They sell drugs like cabbage." The reporter interviewed the procurator of the Loudi City Procuratorate in Hunan Province, excavated the story behind the review report of the 780,000-word special case team, and restored the criminal trajectory of the triad organization headed by the big drug dealer Zeng Dehong.
Before drug trafficking:
17-year-old drug addict "mixed society"
Opening of the casino "Nijin Palace"
Acting in a high-profile manner and daring to fight bravely and fiercely is the impression that many people have of Zeng Dehong. When his family asked him to retire from his girlfriend, he cut off a finger to show his refusal. After a drug dealer in a detention center heard that Zeng Dehong had "entered" the drug market, in order to avoid dealing with him, he gradually transferred his "drug trafficking business" to other places.
Time back to 1996, 17-year-old Zeng Dehong began to take drugs, then in Shandong Jinan, Zhejiang Ningbo and other places "mixed society", and then to Myanmar, at the age of 26 back to his hometown of Hunan Xinhua. Here, he met two "bosses" who changed his life.
In September 2011, Zeng Dehong opened a casino with an "evil boss" and established the name of "De Ge" in the local area. In 2012, the gang was destroyed by the police, and Zeng Dehong was imprisoned for it. After nearly two years of reform, Zeng Dehong was released after completing his sentence, but he was soon sentenced to open a casino again.
Despite this, the "prestige" of "De ge" is still circulating in the rivers and lakes. A big drug dealer, Yuan Moumou (handled in a separate case), favored him and wanted to take him under his command, so he began to send living expenses to show goodwill during Zeng Dehong's imprisonment. After his release from prison in October 2016, he funded the opening of a gambling machine room.
Not long after, Yuan Moumou felt that the risk of drug trafficking was too great, and hoped that Zeng Dehong would come forward to sell drugs in his own name. Zeng Dehong's domineering style quickly established his reputation in the local drug market, but he was gradually not satisfied with being controlled by Yuan Moumou and hoped to truly stand on his own.
High-profile drug trafficking:
Take the fugitives as horses
WeChat takes orders to "take out" drugs and throws them on the side of the road
In May 2017, Zeng Dehong began to look for a stable source of large drugs, and agreed with a number of drug traffickers to carry out drug "underwriting", sometimes driving to a certain ground to deliver, sometimes through express delivery and other ways to "purchase", so that the upper family will be directly sent to the drug mixed with other items. At the same time, he also recruited some drug addicts and drug traffickers as his subordinates, and did not reject the fugitives, knowing that the two horses were chased by the Internet and still took them in.
On May 14, 2020, the main offender, Zeng Dehong, was tried. Photo by Liu Yong
The drug trafficking gang led by Zeng Dehong grew stronger and stronger, eventually growing to 10 men and 6 women, of which 5 were post-90s, and the youngest was a girl born in 1998. They sell drugs, open gambling machine rooms, open online gambling platforms and fraud platforms, and grab huge amounts of illegal economic benefits. Among them, what impressed the prosecutors the most was their rather "personality" drug trafficking behavior -
"I've never seen a drug dealer so high-profile." Kang Zhenhong, assistant procurator of the Public Prosecution Department of the Loudi City Procuratorate, told reporters, "In the words of Zeng Dehong's subordinates, he sells drugs for fear that others will not know." As long as someone asks him to buy, no matter who dares to sell, those who come will not refuse, and drug trafficking is like selling cabbage. ”
"They are used to selling drugs and often drive to 'deliver food'." Xie Kaituo, director of the Public Prosecution Division of the Loudi City Procuratorate and a post prosecutor, revealed that a gang member thought that the drug trafficking model was like taking out errands, taking orders through WeChat and then driving errands to deliver errands, but after making an appointment at the trading place, they would not directly connect, but would throw drugs casually in places that ordinary people would not pay attention to, such as flower beds on the side of the road, grass, or under car tires, etc., and then pass photos or videos to indicate the specific location, "They think it is safer." ”
"Before they were caught, they were basically selling drugs every day, and the horses had to deliver goods every day, so I couldn't tell how many times they had sold them." Xie Kaituo said that it is very rare that the frequency of drug trafficking is so high and the means of committing crimes are so high-profile.
Violent drug trafficking:
First pay the account on credit and then collect the debt
Every horse boy takes drugs
"If you are caught, where you are caught, you will be cut off." The reporter learned that in this criminal gang, there are some unwritten organizational disciplines and rules -- "There is a difference between respect and inferiority, brother is brother, sister-in-law is sister-in-law, little brother is little brother", "Don't be afraid of things, you must win when you engage in fights", "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't talk about what you shouldn't talk about", the overall structure is clear, and the direct leadership of different horses is also different. If someone violates organizational discipline, they are verbally abused, beaten, or fired.
In addition, there is also emphasis on "unity" within the gang. Most of the illegal income is used to support the activities of the members of the organization - the purchase of guns, ammunition and knives, the purchase and rental of vehicles, the payment of salaries, the provision of living expenses, the condolences of the members and their families, the organization of the gathering of subordinates, and the cost of "finding a relationship" when investigated and punished. "The profits they have gained have finally returned to the criminal organization itself, becoming a cycle of using black to promote poison and poison to nourish black." Kang Zhenhong sighed.
According to reports, one of the biggest expenses of the criminal gang is to provide free drug use for its own people, because everyone in the gang uses drugs. The second largest expenditure is renting and opening a house, Zeng Dehong opened a room in a high-end hotel to allow the horse boys to take drugs, and also rented more than 10 houses for them, most of which are located in convenient areas near KTV, supermarkets and kindergartens.
It was precisely because of the large number of horses under his command that Zeng Dehong even allowed drug addicts to pay credit when buying drugs. "Most drug dealers are afraid that the money will not come, but he allows others to take the goods first, because then he will let Ma Zai go directly to the door to collect the debt." They have machetes on their cars at all times, which are used for debt collection. Xie Kaituo said that most drug addicts have no financial resources, and drug dealers will not openly organize a large number of people to participate in drug trafficking, and generally like to "pay with one hand and deliver with one hand" on a small scale.
From May 14 to 15, 2020, the case of Zeng Dehong and 17 other defendants indicted by the Loudi City Procuratorate was heard in court on suspicion of organizing, leading, or participating in triad-type organizations. Photo by Liu Yong
From March to May 2018, Yuan and another drug trafficking gang leader were arrested. Zeng Dehong did not converge after learning about it, but instead believed that it was a good opportunity to encroach on the market, and his control over the local methamphetamine and Magu market reached its peak, and continued to radiate to the surrounding townships, Changsha and other places. Relying on violent and threatening means, the criminal gang dominates one side and unscrupulously threatens drug addicts and drug dealers on the line, which has a major impact on the local drug control situation and seriously undermines the order of local economic and social life.
Cruelty to the masses:
Unlawful detention for rape and murder
Drug addicts abhor that are deeply resentful
The procuratorial organs ascertained that the criminal organization had systematically carried out a total of 88 illegal and criminal activities in order to establish illegal authority, safeguard its illegal interests, do evil for non-evil, and bully and maim the masses. In addition to 63 cases of drug trafficking and transportation, the gang was also suspected of 15 crimes, including illegal detention, intentional homicide, rape, illegal possession of firearms, and opening a casino.
For example, in the process of finding a stable source of large drugs, Zeng Dehong was deceived by Liu xxx and Xiao xxx, and he was always grumpy. In July 2017, Xiao was beaten and intimidated by his men with guns, daggers and wooden sticks, and was locked in the trunk of a car. Zeng Dehong also threatened to kill Liu XX many times, and when he got the news of Liu XX's appearance, he immediately gathered his subordinates to rush to the assembly with machetes and daggers, and also arranged for his subordinates to take out Liu XX's photo for others to identify, instructing "Whoever finds Liu XX in the future will first kill liu XX and then say." The procuratorate believes that this move is suspected of criminal preparation for intentional homicide.
In addition, Zeng Dehong also forced the woman Wang to provide sexual services for others, and when Wang did not comply, he raped him with verbal threats, and then notified others to enter the room and have sexual relations with Wang.
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The crimes were staggering, and many of the drug addicts' relatives and friends clapped their hands when they learned of Zeng's arrest. A drug addict cried to the prosecutor in prison that he had lost his job because he was contaminated with drugs, and only later did he deeply realize the dangers of drug trafficking gangs and hoped that the judicial organs would crack down hard.
Behind the open drug trafficking:
State workers are corrupted
Why have triad organizations been entrenched in local counties for a long time, carrying out such large-scale open drug trafficking, and wantonly carrying out illegal and criminal activities? When the procuratorial organs handled the case, they found clues that state functionaries had been corrupted and co-opted, and they have now been transferred to the discipline inspection and supervision organs.
During the interrogation, Zeng Dehong admitted most of the facts of the crime, but did not believe that he was involved in the crime. In this regard, Xie Kaituo explained, "Zeng Dehong gathered and raised a group of horse boys, and in more than a year, he wantonly carried out 88 illegal and criminal activities in Xinhua County and its surrounding areas, dominating one side, forming illegal control over the drug field in the region, seriously undermining the order of local economic and social life, and having the four characteristics of the organization, economy, behavior, and harmfulness of the organization of the mafia-type organization." ”
"It is one of the criminal syndicates and evil crimes that does not let go, not one that does not make up the number of criminal syndicates and evil crimes." Xie Kaituo also mentioned that of the more than 20 people transferred by the public security organs for examination and prosecution, 6 people were not identified as members of the triad organization because they did not belong to the management of the organization, such as the defendant Wang Chengxian and Zeng Dehong were mutually exploitative, and the other 5 (handled in a separate case) were drug traffickers.
The review and prosecution that lasted for more than half a year converged into thousands of pages and more than 780,000 words of the review report, which is the silent effort of the procurator. For Xie Kaituo, there is no weekend for most of the year, and he often sleeps near the unit after working overtime until the early morning. "At first, the family will have some complaints, and then they will slowly understand." The 3-year-old daughter's strange feelings about him are the changes that he feels most unaccustomed to.
On May 14, 2020, Li Fangfang, chief procurator of the Loudi Municipal Procuratorate, appeared in court to support the prosecution in accordance with the law, and the case was jointly listed and supervised by the Hunan Provincial Procuratorate and the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department. Photo by Liu Yong
"This is the first relatively large criminal case involving criminal syndicates and evil forces in Loudi City since the anti-gang crime struggle was launched." At that time, the public security organs transferred more than 130 volumes of case file materials, and the facts of the case reached hundreds. Li Fangfang, secretary of the party leading group and chief procurator of the Loudi City Procuratorate, who took the initiative to serve as the procurator in charge of the case, said: "This kind of case involving criminal syndicates and evil forces shakes local public order and affects people's hearts and minds, and should be severely punished, and the people also hope that we will seriously investigate and handle such cases." ”
Why is drug crime rampant? In addition to handling cases, the Loudi Municipal Procuratorate continued to pay attention to the problem of drug control, combined with the handling of drug crime cases in the city in the past three years, issued procuratorial suggestions to the Loudi Municipal Narcotics Control Commission, requiring strengthening the help and education control of high-risk personnel involved in drugs, and strengthening the management of drug-related hidden danger sites. At present, the Loudi Municipal Narcotics Control Commission has formulated a special plan based on this and taken targeted measures to further plug the loopholes in drug control.
"Procuratorial organs should base themselves on handling cases, but they should not only handle individual cases well." How to give full play to the effect of procuratorial supervision is a question that Li Fangfang has been thinking about.
Source: Justice Network
Text: Hu Yuhan