Fraudsters who failed to meet their performance standards were beaten and shocked for a long time, and eventually died of depression

Source: People's Daily News

Engaged in wire fraud to harm others and harm themselves The Sichuan Provincial Public Security Bureau cracked the case of the "5.30" organization illegally crossing the national (border) border

Beijing, 26 Oct (People's Daily Online) -- This afternoon, the Ministry of Public Security held a press conference in Beijing, at which Li Yinan, deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department, gave a briefing on a case of the "5.30" organization that was led by the public security organs of Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, who had illegally crossed the national (border) border. This case is a typical case that Sichuan Province has successfully commanded and cracked since the Launch of the Ministry of Public Security's "Cut Off the Flow" special case.

Li Yinan introduced that in June 2021, the public security organs in Luzhou, Sichuan Province, found criminal clues suspected of smuggling when reviewing overseas returnees, and after in-depth research and judgment, it was found that Zhou and others organized and recruited many people to smuggle abroad through the southwest border to engage in criminal activities such as telecommunications fraud many times, and the recruited personnel were mainly from Sichuan, Hubei, Yunnan and other provinces.

After investigation, between 2019 and 2020, Zhou's organized criminal gang used online dating to use high salary returns and road tolls as bait to organize multiple batches of domestic personnel to smuggle to a certain place in Southeast Asia through the southwest border to engage in telecommunications network fraud. Fraudster gangs lure victims to invest on the grounds that they can obtain insider information on gambling network platforms, and when the victims find that they cannot withdraw cash, they trick them into continuing to invest on the grounds of operational errors, resulting in further losses.

It has been learned that the gang is well-organized, has a clear division of labor, and has strict internal management; those who disobey the arrangements, violate the gang's regulations, and fail to complete their tasks are beaten and physically punished, and at worst, they are subjected to violent acts such as breaking their hands and feet and closing the "water prison" to force them to obey the gang's command. Among them, 1 recruited Sichuan Luzhou national was beaten and electrocuted by electric batons for a long time due to substandard performance, and died of mental depression shortly after returning to China.

"These people who are recruited to enter the dens of telecommunications are both participants in fraud crimes and victims of being tricked out of the country and subjected to violent control." Li Yinan said.

At present, 201 members of the criminal group have been identified, including 50 criminal suspects, including 2 "snakeheads", have been arrested, and more than 50 cases of telecommunications network fraud, cases of helping information network crimes, and organizing others to sneak across the national (border) border have been cracked, and other people involved in the case are being arrested.