Late on the night of May 26, 1993, a train pulled out of the border of Erenhot.
Taking advantage of the night, a group of robbers appeared in the middle of the train carriage, armed with long knives and electric batons, and carried out a brutal robbery of the passengers on the train.
What everyone didn't expect was that this was just the beginning.
On May 31, another group of robbers boarded the train and again ransacked innocent passengers.
In the six-day, six-night train robbery, three women were assaulted.
The number of people injured by the robbers is even more numerous.
Figure 1 The Sino-Russian train robbery
This incident was the sensational Sino-Russian international train robbery at the end of the 20th century.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > backwards</h1>
In 1954, the Sino-Soviet Railway opened a train between Moscow and Beijing.
The train was numbered K19, which later became known as the Vostok.
This is the earliest international train in China, and it is also the most well-known.
By 1959, on this track, another international train was officially opened.
This is where the Sino-Soviet train robbery took place, the K3 train, which spans 7819 kilometers and spans the entire Eurasian continent.
From the starting station to the terminal station, it takes a total of six days and six nights, and it takes to pass through China, Mongolia, Russia and other countries along the way.
It can be said that it was the railway that crossed the country the most at that time.
It is precisely because of the particularity of this railway that this train robbery that shocked the world was caused.
Figure 2 Train from Beijing to Moscow
The Soviet Union had just collapsed, and the entire Russian light industry had been devastated.
In contrast, in China, the fruits of reform and opening up have gradually begun to appear.
The domestic economy is also slowly recovering, light industry has also been developed rapidly, and various commodities are dazzling and numerous.
With excellent production, our products are well received by the Russian people.
But because the international tour guides at that time were mostly individuals or small groups, the total amount of cargo that each person could carry was very limited.
Therefore, most of the goods traded are relatively small in volume and relatively high in unit price.
For example, clocks, leather coats, and some exquisite crafts.
Like a leather jacket with a purchase price of tens of yuan, brought to Russia to sell, it can be sold for more than 500 yuan.
When I came back, I could also bring some specialties from Russia and sell them to the Chinese people at a high price on the pretext of importing products.
Figure 3 Items sold
Usually, you can earn tens of thousands of yuan in price differences, which was an astronomical amount at the time.
In this context, a new profession was born between China and Russia, the international grandfather.
The huge profits have also allowed more and more people to start joining the industry.
Therefore, the K3 international train has become the main means of transportation between China and Russia.
Although many people made a lot of money at that time, in fact, the whole process can also be called rich and expensive.
Because this transnational train has a very big loophole in terms of safety.
Under an agreement signed between the two countries before the train opened, Chinese police officers could only board the train inside China.
Once you reach the Sino-Russian border, you need to get off.
After entering Russian territory, there is no police on duty on the bus, and only after each stop, the local police will get on the bus to check.
Figure 4 Train route
Not only that, according to local Regulations in Russia, if a criminal suspect is not effectively convicted four hours after being caught.
Or if there is no evidence, the relevant departments cannot detain the criminal suspect.
Therefore, after the train enters the territory of Russia, there is a greater safety hazard in itself.
On K3 trains, theft, robbery and other criminal phenomena often occur.
Since a large part of the passengers on this car are upside-downs, they need to carry a lot of cash, so the robbers will often "patronize".
Over time, the robbers on this train gradually formed a scale.
The passengers also did not dare to correct the local Russian police for fear of retaliation.
This has continued, and since most of the passengers on the train are Chinese, which the Russian police believe does not fall under their jurisdiction.
Figure 5 By car
Over time, a situation has formed on the K3 train, and the passengers on the train are either the fallen masters or the people who specialize in robbing the fallen masters.
It was late at night on May 26, 1993, and the train was moving on the railway as usual.
Unbeknownst to the train's passengers, a six-day nightmare was creeping in.
As the train was moving, a group of armed robbers rushed out of the middle section of the train.
The leader of the gang is named Shao Xun, who, before committing the crime, will pretend to be an ordinary passenger and chat with the passengers on the train.
After determining which passengers are dumped, what goods to carry, and how much money they have, they will take action.
With Shao Xun's order, several robbers behind him began to loot the passengers on the train.
Figure 6 Robbers
In the ten hours that followed, they obtained a large amount of money and valuables through threats, intimidation, and other means.
In the process, a female passenger from Zhejiang was even raped twice by robbers.
After winning the battle, Shao Xun led his robbers and got out of the car in Ulaanbaatar.
After Shao Xun left, another group of robbers boarded the train, the leader of this gang of robbers was named Jia Xiaoming, and he was not the main messenger of this robbery, the main messenger was called Miao Binglin, and at this time Miao Binglin suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in bed.
But despite this, he also instructed his little brother to rob the K3 train, but because Jia Xiaoming did not bring many people, after learning that there were already other robbers coming, Jia Xiaoming led people to conduct a simple search of the carriage and left hastily.
Figure 7 Four robbers
Just as the passengers on the train were feeling the rest of their lives, at 23:30 on the night of May 27, the train stopped at Ilanskaya Station.
The nightmare is coming again.
Another group of robbers boarded the train.
There were two leaders in this group of robbers, one named Zhu Xingjin, nicknamed Zhu San.
The other is called Zhao Jinhua, nicknamed the second sister.
The two of them are lovers, mixed in the K3 international train for many years, and there are more than a dozen minions under them.
Their appearance made all the passengers on the train feel very desperate.
Because they had been looted twice before, there was nothing of value on them.
After Zhu Xingjin and his party got into the car, they saw that the younger brothers had returned almost empty-handed.
So he became angry and began to beat the passengers in the car.
Figure 8 Zong Liyong
In order to vent his anger, Zhao Jinhua actually asked Zhu Xingjin to rape a female passenger in the car.
It can be seen how vicious this Zhao Jinhua, who is known as the second sister, is.
Zhao Jinhua was originally also a backward master.
A year ago, she followed the advice of a friend and went to Russia to study at her own expense.
At that time, in order to make it more convenient to travel between China and Russia, the grandfathers would spend some money to buy invitations to local universities in Russia.
Most of these universities are miscellaneous universities, and as long as you give money, you can get the status of international students.
The identity of the fallen master made Zhao Jinhua earn a lot of money.
But the money came and went quickly, and she fell into the vice of gambling.
After losing all the money, people have become impetuous and unwilling to start from scratch.
In addition, when she was a downtrodden, she was also robbed by robbers, and she decided to join the robber gang when she was cornered.
Figure 9 Newton
In the beginning, Zhao Jinhua's status in the gang was very low.
But she is ambitious and very resourceful.
Soon after, he established a lover relationship with the robber leader Zhu Xingjin, and Zhao Jinhua naturally became the "eldest sister-in-law".
On May 31, 1993, three days have passed.
Zhu Xingjin's gang also brutally tortured passengers on the train.
At this time, another group of robbers, led by Newton, boarded the train.
Unexpectedly, the two waves of robbers not only knew each other, but also exchanged information with each other.
After Newton got into the car, he found Zhu Xingjin and his party in the front of the car.
So he ordered his younger brother to go to the back of the car to loot.
Some of the young passengers on the train couldn't stand it.
As Zhu Xingjin passed the sleeping car, a young man on the upper bunk smashed Zhu Xingjin's head with a beer bottle.
Figure 10 Shipping
The other three young people around them saw this and began to resist.
Drove the robbers out of the compartment door.
At that time, the sleepers on this train were separated by door panels.
After the robbers were pushed out, the four young men pushed the box door to death.
As soon as Zhao Jinhua saw that his man had been beaten, he took all his younger brothers and surrounded the box.
Zhao Jinhua's men began to smash the door with their weapons.
At this time, several people in the carriage knew that if they continued to stalemate like this, the door would definitely be smashed open, and they would definitely die at that time.
A young man smashed the glass of the carriage and the four of them jumped out of the car together to escape.
The train was not fast at the time, and the four passengers were not injured after jumping off the train.
After escaping the train, the four of them ran together into the woods outside.
Figure 11 Arrest
At this time, Zhao Jinhua, who had no king's law, caught up with the passenger who smashed Zhu Xingjin with a beer bottle.
He even used the emergency brake valve on the train to stop the train.
After getting out of the car, Zhao Jinhua took several younger brothers and chased them into the woods.
The passengers had been oppressed for a long time and had already lost their strength.
The same goes for these four young men.
Three of them didn't run far before they were caught up by Zhao Jinhua's younger brother.
After catching up, Zhao Jinhua and his younger brother beat the three young people for a long time.
The three of them were beaten to the skin.
After seeing that the three people had no ability to resist, Zhao Jinhua returned to the train with his younger brother.
After Zhao Jinhua and the others left, the three young people who had been beaten lay dying on the cold ground.
Fortunately, not long after, they were discovered by the surrounding villagers and sent to the hospital.
This is out of danger to life.
Figure 12 Zhu San and the second sister
From May 26 to 31, 1993, a full six days.
The K3 transnational train was ransacked four times by four different waves of robbers.
The passengers on the train were nervous and exhausted, as if they had walked through hell.
In fact, throughout the first half of 1993, the grandfathers who traded goods between China and Russia did not have a good life.
Shao Xun, Zhu Xingjin, Newton, a criminal gang headed by these people.
For a long time before that, there had been a brutal robbery of merchants who came and went.
And their frequent success has made more and more people join them.
These criminal gangs are also getting bigger and bigger.
But the K3 train robbery was their last madness.
On June 1, 1993, after Zhu Xingjin, Zhao Jinhua and others returned to Moscow, they were arrested by the Russian police.
Figure 13 Zhao Jinhua (second from left)
Subsequently, miao binglin's gang was also arrested one after another.
The Chinese ambassador to Russia also reported the situation to Beijing.
The Chinese police immediately realized the seriousness of the problem and decided to tighten controls on cross-border trains.
But it's not an easy task.
After all, this train involves two countries and requires a long period of consultation between the two countries.
And the case took place on the territory of Russia.
According to local Russian law, if strong evidence is not found in the short term, the Russian police must release the criminals.
In this case, the Chinese police must come forward.
In order to solve the problem, the Chinese police soldiers divided into two ways.
A part of the Chinese police, specifically responsible for assisting the Russian police, interrogated the robbers who had been caught.
Another part of the police decided to arrest other arrested members in secret.
Figure 14 Chinese and Russian police officers involved in the handling of the case
However, because the arrests need to be carried out inside Russia, the Chinese police are not allowed to carry weapons when entering Russia.
Therefore, the Chinese police can only carry some daily necessities that can curb the robbers' actions and go to Moscow.
On July 21, 1993, the Chinese police received a tip-off from an informant that Newton's criminal gang had decided to carry out a large-scale robbery in Moscow.
According to the information given by the wire newspaper, this may be the last time they committed a crime.
Newton and his other subordinates obtained visas to Tunisia.
This means that this may be the last chance to steal newton's criminal gang.
If this opportunity is missed, these criminals are likely to go unpunished.
Therefore, the Chinese police rushed to Moscow at the first time and arrested these criminals.
Figure 15 Criminal suspect Jia Xiaoming
With the joint efforts of China and Russia, the robbers were captured one by one.
Although the arrest process was smooth, how to bring these criminals back to China has become a top problem that the Chinese police need to face.
At that time, China and Russia did not have a detailed extradition treaty.
Therefore, the Chinese police can only choose to secretly extradite.
A little carelessness in the process of India will cause diplomatic friction between China and Russia.
In this case, Cheng Liya, the leader of the secret capture squad, decided to make a dangerous move.
He delivered six cases of beer to the local Moscow police officer.
And these beers are on the platform of the K3 train.
When Russian police officers came to get beer, the Chinese police deliberately used the Russian police as very familiar.
At this moment, the robbers were on the train, and Cheng Liya's purpose was to let these robbers see this scene.
Figure 16 Shao Xun was arrested
Sure enough, the robbers arrested in the car thought it was official cooperation between China and Russia.
So he gave up the idea of running away.
In this way, the Newton criminal gang was successfully extradited by the Chinese police back to China.
Immediately afterward, the Chinese police began to police The Miao Binglin gang.
After a long period of squatting, the Chinese police finally arrested Miao Binglin in an inn in Moscow.
Immediately after that, the Chinese police contacted Miao Binglin's wife.
He also asked his wife to send a telegram to Moss, which said that Miao Binglin was seriously ill and had become delirious.
The Chinese police did this because they were afraid that when Miao Binglin was arrested, Miao Binglin would make a moth and attract the attention of the Russian police.
As a result, extradition can become very cumbersome.
Figure 17 Acceptance of trial
With this telegram, when Miao Binglin was making trouble on the train, the Chinese police could show the telegram to the Russian police.
In this way, Miao Binglin's gang was also successfully extradited back to China.
At this point, the leader of the four groups of kidnappers involved in the Sino-Russian train robbery was only Shao Xun who had not yet been arrested.
Knowing that he was deeply guilty, Shao Xun immediately began his career as a fugitive after he succeeded.
He first went to a temple in Anhui and hid in the temple pretending to be a monk.
The harsh life of the temple made Shao Xun very uncomfortable.
So Shao Xun chose to leave the temple and continue his escape journey.
But after that, Shao Xun seemed to evaporate in the world and disappeared into the sight of the police.
The police also issued a wanted warrant for Shao Xun at the first time.
It wasn't until December 2010 that Chinese police received an informant that Mr. Shao was at a nutrition company.
Figure 18 The capture was successful
The police immediately arrested him.
Skynet was restored, but it was not leaked, and Shao Xun, the last robber leader who participated in the Sino-Russian international train robbery, was finally arrested.
At this point, all the robber leaders involved in the K3 train robbery were all arrested and brought to justice.
In mid-October 1993, several major criminal gangs on the K3 train between China and Russia were all destroyed by the Chinese and Russian police, and more than 60 criminals were arrested and brought to justice.
By 2011, all those involved had been arrested, and 31 of them had been sentenced to life imprisonment or above.
The sensational train robbery was finally solved.
At the end of the 20th century, a good trading system had not yet been formed between China and Russia, and it can be said that this train was the bridge and link between China and Russia.
Over time, the fear of the train gradually dissipated.
Figure 19 Arrest
Today's K3 trains have long been reborn, and a similar situation is unlikely.
And this sensational transnational case, along with the dust of history, has gradually faded out of people's memory.
We also hope that this peace will last a long time.
The K3 train can also continue to carry the good friendship between China and Russia.
Skynet is restored, neglect is not leaked, and any criminal has the day of the law.
We also believe that with the development of the economy and the progress of civilization, evil will become farther and farther away from us.