□ All-media reporter of the Rule of Law Daily, Dong Fanchao and Han Ping
Xiao Wen, who lives in Haixi, Qinghai, could not have imagined that the promise of "going to the southwest to pick tea in the southwest" in the mouth of his "friend" would become a nightmare.
Late one night in July 2020, on the southwest border, Xiaowen was led by a "friend" to "pick tea in the mountains", accompanied by more than 70 other people. Searchlights at border checkpoints swept through the treetops, and "friends" beckoned everyone to hurry down. The so-called "tea fields" do not exist at all, and at this moment they are on the smuggling road to neighboring countries.
Xiaowen is dragged into a car with a foreign license plate, at which time the "friend" shows a vicious face.
In the following 3 months, Xiaowen was controlled in front of a computer, in addition to countless network chat windows on the screen, there were "pig killing disk" telecommunications network fraud and "naked chat" extortion related "training tutorials" and "operation guides".
"It was a 10-story office building, each floor was engaged in telecommunications network fraud, and the entrances and exits were guarded by armed men with guns. If you don't complete the 'performance', you will be starved and beaten. In Xiao Wen's recollection, there are often gunshots here, the epidemic spreads everywhere, and fleeing back to the motherland is the only thought in many people's hearts.
Just when Xiaowen was suffering, more than 2,000 kilometers away in his hometown, a rescue operation from the public security organs was in full swing. The Qinghai Provincial Public Security Department analyzed and judged the information of suspects suspected of illegally crossing the national border in this province, and found that criminal suspect Chen Moucai and others smuggled themselves abroad to engage in the criminal activity of "killing pigs", during which they constantly lured Qinghai nationals to illegally go abroad to join the gang and commit fraud with high salaries. After the members involved in the gang deceived the victims' trust by developing a relationship with each other, they relied on a false financial management platform to defraud domestic personnel and property by the criminal method of "killing pigs".
Chen Moucai was the "friend" who tricked Xiaowen into smuggling him out of the country. Following his criminal line, the public security organs found Xiaowen's parents, who were still in the dark at this time. After Xiaowen's parents learned of the situation, they immediately cooperated with the police to carry out the work of persuading them to return. Xiao Wen, who got in touch with his relatives, cleverly grasped the criminal evidence of the criminal gang under the guidance of the police, and at the same time broke free from the "trap" step by step, and finally returned to China safely.
The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" learned in the interview that the story of "rescue" Xiaowen is not unique.
Liu Donghai, deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Qinghai Provincial Public Security Department, said: Since the launch of the special operation of the "cut off the flow" of public security organs throughout the country, the Qinghai public security organs, under the unified deployment and command of the Ministry of Public Security, have drawn elite police forces from various operational police departments to set up a special case group to comprehensively study and judge the clues issued by the Ministry of Public Security and the clues of overseas fraud dens that were previously mastered locally, and discovered that Chen Moucai and four other criminal gangs that organized illegally crossed the national border to carry out telecommunications network fraud.
In the work, the special case team divided labor and cooperated, and found a network structure containing 415 criminal suspects at 5 levels, including "gold lord", "supervisor", "agent", "team leader" and "team member".
"Unlike previous criminal cases, each of the 415 suspects in this 'cut off' project has a corresponding kraft paper bag." Hu Peng, director of the Anti-Fraud Center of the Qinghai Provincial Criminal Police Corps, revealed to reporters that the special case team put into each brown paper bag the investigation and case handling guidelines combed according to the characteristics of the suspects, effectively reducing the repetitive work of specific investigation units and improving the quality and efficiency of case handling. At the same time, the special case team also went to the qinghai provincial procuratorate and court to communicate and consult on issues such as case jurisdiction, evidence standards, and application of law, and conducted special training for the legal departments and case-handling units of public security organs in various prefectures and cities.
Under the unified command of the Ministry of Public Security, the public security organs of Qinghai Province launched two special crackdowns on June 14 and July 17 this year, dispatching more than 100 police forces to arrest 291 criminal suspects, including Chen Moucai.
After interrogation, the public security organs found that Chen Moucai and four other fraud gangs were well organized and had a clear division of labor, leased office space in the name of the company abroad, and had perfect company rules and regulations and strict employee management guidelines.
"The 'cut off the flow' special operation is a successful exploration by the public security organs in cracking down on cross-border telecommunications network fraud crimes, which has effectively promoted the source control work, promoted the work of persuading high-risk persons stranded abroad to return and force them to surrender, and organized smuggling to carry out telecommunications network fraud criminal activities abroad to a certain extent." Liu Donghai said that the special action fully demonstrates the confidence and determination of the public security organs to severely crack down on the crime of telecommunications network fraud, and cracks down on the arrogance of cross-border fraud criminals.
"In the next step, the public security organs of Qinghai Province will continue to severely crack down on recruiting personnel to engage in illegal and criminal activities such as telecommunications network fraud abroad in accordance with the law, resolutely cut off the smuggling chain, and push forward the 'cut off the flow' special case in depth." Hu Peng told reporters.
Source: Rule of Law Daily - Legal Network