He committed 15 crimes, illegally amassed 1.2 billion yuan, and co-opted a number of public officials, including the former deputy director of the provincial public security department and the deputy director of the municipal public security bureau, to act as "protective umbrellas."
The case of Hunan Wen Liehong and others whose mafia-type organization was high because of the great social harm and the high level of the "protective umbrella" has attracted widespread attention. On January 15 this year, the Intermediate People's Court of Changde City, Hunan Province, publicly pronounced a verdict on the first instance trial of the case, and on June 19, the Hunan Provincial High People's Court publicly pronounced a verdict on the second instance trial of the case. The main offender, Wen Liehong, was sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscated all personal property.
On Taohuayuan Road in Dingcheng District, Changde City, a rotten construction site covering an area of nearly 1,400 acres is overgrown with weeds, and there is no sign of resuming work. In 2016, the project, called Dejiang South International Trade City, was shut down. That year, the boss Zhang Moubo forged the official seal and mortgaged the usurious debt of the project that had just been developed to half of it, making the company unable to operate, and the partner reported the case to the police. In the face of the investigation, Zhang Moubo confessed to the police that he was forced to do so.
Policemen handling the case: These people specifically look at his cattle, which means that whether he is in Changsha or Changde, every day his food, clothing, shelter and transportation are always under the control of this group of cattle watchers.
According to the case-handling personnel, due to the loan sharking, Zhang Moubo was being forced into debt by "soft violence" in a way commonly known as "watching cattle". A group of horse boys 24 hours a day with Zhang Moubo, eat and live together, do everything must be through the consent of the horse boys. At the same time, the interest rate of 50 million debts is also too high for Zhang Moubo to bear.
Policemen handling the case: The agreed interest rate is very high, at least more than one dime, that is, fifty million a month to pay him back five million, too fierce, too powerful.
According to the police, under the pressure of usury, Zhang Moubo forged seals and illegally paid off the project assets. On August 19, 2016, police in Changde, Hunan Province, opened a case against "Zhang Moubo's Illegal Detention Case". Subsequently, a group of horse boys were arrested one after another, and the clues pointed to their boss Wen Liehong behind the scenes. At that time, Wen Liehong had strong funds and had close contacts with various entrepreneurs, and relied on borrowing and lending to obtain huge profits.
Policeman handling the case: He has a nickname called "Cash King" in Changsha, and the average person knows him, and if he asks for money at any time, he can have this money and get it at any time, faster than the bank. There is a bank card, he uses it more frequently, the amount of in and outflow of this card is about six or seven billion, just a bank card.
At the same time, the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department has repeatedly received reporting materials from Wen Liehong for illegal crimes, and the relevant online reporting news has continued to ferment. Subsequently, the Changde Municipal Public Security Bureau began to "investigate and deal with the case in a different place" under the deployment of the provincial department. After investigation, the police grasped that Changsha Ren Liehong, known as "Third Master Wen", was seriously suspected of crimes involving organized crime. On February 28, 2017, the police launched a unified network collection operation to arrest Wen Liehong and his key members in Changsha. This mafia-type organization headed by Wen Liehong, which has been entrenched in Changsha for many years, has made huge profits by opening casinos and violently collecting debts, and the triad-type organization that harms one side has been completely eliminated.
Wen Liehong set up gambling and loan sharks to accumulate wealth and illegally profited 1.2 billion yuan
Wen Liehong was born in an ordinary farming family in Qiaoyi Town, Wangcheng District, Changsha City. Because he was the third oldest, he was called "Wen San Lingzi" since he was a child, which is also the origin of his later name "Wen Sanye". How did this peasant boy illegally grab wealth step by step, and eventually transform into a black boss? People who have come into contact with Wen Liehong have 8 words to say about him: regard wealth as fate, and do whatever it takes.
In Minfu Village, Qiaoyi Town, Wangcheng District, Changsha. A large villa covering an area of nearly 30 acres has become a landmark building in the village. Its owner is Wen Liehong.
It is understood that Wen Liehong, who has an ordinary family background, began to mix with society very early. Gambling is Wen Liehong's biggest hobby, and it is also the beginning of his crime. The investigation by the case-handling personnel found that since 1997, Wen Liehong began to win money through "out of the old thousands" of fraudulent gambling. In 1998, because of a gambling dispute, he gathered his accomplices to beat Li Mou, a villager in the same village, to the head and bleed.
Policeman handling the case: This is a landmark event in the budding of his underworld organization, because at this time, several of his main horse boys were not under his command at that time, but because of this matter in the local area, his notoriety has already been spread.
In addition to gathering crowds to gamble and set up sets to win money, Wen Liehong also opened a casino to make a profit. Rich and good gamblers are the targets of his efforts to make friends, and several high-end hotels have become places where he often gathers to gamble. After 2000, Wen Liehong became acquainted with a group of well-known business owners in the province, including Zhang Moubo, through the introduction of Yao Yue, a retired department-level cadre of the provincial public security department, and others. With the frequent participation of these people in gambling, the gambling capital of Wen Liehong's gambling game is getting bigger and bigger. According to the case-handling staff, someone once lost 70 million in his gambling game. Sometimes Wen Liehong's first draw can reach tens of millions of yuan in one night. After accumulating a large amount of money, Wen Liehong began to lend usury.
Liu Huijun, procurator of the Changde Municipal People's Procuratorate: People who come to gamble in his casino, because the gambling funds are relatively large, do not need to bring cash themselves, and if they win money, they can take chips to exchange for cash in his place, and directly take the money and leave. You are the boss, you lost millions, tens of millions in the casino, if you can't pay the money for the time being, then this money will be converted into a usury, then it is equivalent to saying that you are glued by Wen Liehong, you can't get rid of it.
Chu Yang, procurator of the Changde Municipal People's Procuratorate: After he pulled these business owners in through gambling, and at the same time, the business owners may still be short of funds in the business, and he can also provide this kind of usury support, so he can be said to have let these entrepreneurs fall into his trap step by step.
The traps that the case-handling personnel are talking about are one after another of usury traps that are difficult to pay off. Wen Liehong set up a variety of repayment rules, and even adopted the means of routine loans.
Policeman: I won't let you pay back my principal, you will pay me back this interest, so his interest is in this place, and you will continue to give me this benefit.
Through loan sharking, Wen Liehong received huge illegal benefits. The evidence found by the court shows that:
Between 2005 and 2014, real estate owner Le Moucheng borrowed more than 42 million yuan from Wen Liehong and paid Wen Liehong a total of more than 130 million yuan. Wen Liehong received more than 90 million yuan in illegal income.
Between 2007 and 2012, Peng Mou, the owner of the liquor company, borrowed a total of more than 410 million yuan from Wen Liehong, paid more than 570 million yuan in principal and interest to Wen Liehong, and made a profit of more than 160 million yuan.
The real estate enterprise claimed that between 2007 and 2016, a certain wave borrowed more than 1.28 billion yuan from Wen Liehong and repaid more than 2.25 billion yuan, and Wen Liehong actually made a profit of more than 970 million yuan.
After the incident, the investigative organs sealed, seized, and froze the assets involved in the criminal organization and its members for more than 1.2 billion yuan.
Police: After slowly getting these bosses and these people's money, if they don't have any money, then they will offset your assets, real estate, your façade, or the equity you get, he can also go to this money, so slowly it is equivalent to a vampire, sucking all your assets over.
Raising horses to collect debts and bring down a number of enterprises
As the scale of loan sharking continued to expand, Wen Liehong began to recruit horses to ensure the recovery of the principal and interest of the usury and maintain the order of the casino. A mafia-type organization whose main business is engaged in illegal and criminal activities such as usurious lending, opening casinos, and violent debt collection has gradually taken shape. The social harm caused by it is also increasing.
It has been learned that in the gang, Wen Liehong is the absolute boss, and there are three backbone members under him, Shu Kai, She Bin, and Gong Hao, and these three people have each led a group of ma Zai to specifically organize and implement the illegal and criminal activities arranged by Wen Liehong. In 2016, it was Shu Kai's men who carried out "cattle watching" against Zhang Moubo in Changde. The entire gang is well organized and hierarchical.
Liu Huijun, procurator of the Changde Municipal People's Procuratorate: Ma Zai, who is at the bottom of the hierarchy, cannot have direct contact with Wen Liehong and cannot make phone calls. For example, She Bing, Gong Hao, and Shu Kai each accepted the task, did not cross each other, could not ask each other what you were doing to him, and once you betrayed the organization, you would be severely punished.
Case-handling personnel told reporters that a considerable part of the 15 crimes committed by Wen Liehong were violent crimes. In 2012, when Wen Liehong collected loan shark debts from liquor owner Peng Chao, he gathered more than 20 armed people to participate in a crowd brawl. From 2014 to 2015, Zhang Moubo could not stand Wen Liehong's forced debts and reported Wen Liehong's illegal acts in many ways. Wen Liehong instructed his men to slash and kill Zhang Moubo three times. If his subordinates do their best, Wen Liehong will give financial rewards.
Policeman handling the case: Like Shu Kai and he received a one-time 25 million (usury), after receiving it he was very happy, he immediately gave Shu Kai more than a million cash, let him go to the 4S store to buy a Land Rover, worth more than 1.6 million Land Rover. After She Bing did not ask someone to cut zhang Moubo, he specially divided he into several times, gave more than one million, and also waived hundreds of thousands of debts.
Under the skillful plunder, the wealth of business owners was gradually eaten and squeezed by Wen Liehong, and the consequences were capital rupture, project suspension, and enterprise bankruptcy. In 2014, due to Wen Liehong's forced debt, the capital chain of the Changsha Riding Dragon Avenue project developed by Zhang Moubo was broken, and the project was stopped and stopped, triggering a number of collective rights protection incidents. The president of a bank branch issued a loan of 300 million yuan to the project, but he committed suicide because there was no hope of recovering the money. Later, Wen Liehong also directed illegal debts to Zhang Moubo's project of Dejiang South International Trade City developed in Changde Dingcheng District, which also led to the suspension of the project and serious consequences.
Judge Dai Xiaojun of Changde Intermediate People's Court: Mainly through violent means to seize wealth, and then caused some large-scale projects in Changde and Changsha to break the capital chain and stop work, but also caused many large-scale mass incidents, social harm is very large, the economic damage to the local two places is also very large.
A number of public officials acted as umbrellas
Wen Liehong's mafia-type organization is sitting on a great momentum, and it is inseparable from the protection of the protective umbrella. On the issue of hitting umbrellas, the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee attaches great importance to it and demands that the Discipline Inspection Commission, the Discipline Inspection Commission, and the judicial organs investigate it to the end according to law. It was found that a number of public officials, including Zhou Fubo, former director of the Hunan Provincial Comprehensive Management Office, and Shan Dayong, former executive deputy director of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau, had served as an umbrella for Wen Liehong.
According to public information, Zhou Fubo worked in the secretariat of the General Office of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee in the early days, and after 2000, he was transferred to Shaoyang, Hunan, and was promoted from the secretary of the Shaoyang County Party Committee to the executive vice mayor of Shaoyang City. After 2014, he was transferred to the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department as executive deputy director, and when he stepped down in early 2017, he served as the director of the Provincial Comprehensive Management Office. This reporter met with the official of the Fallen Horse Department at the Hunan Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Detention Center. The public prosecution indicted him on three counts, namely bribery, the crime of having a large amount of assets of unknown origin, and the crime of harboring and conniving at a mafia-type organization. Zhou Fubo told reporters that he met Wen Liehong around 2010, when he was a vice mayor in Shaoyang and often rushed back to Changsha on weekends to participate in gambling games organized by Wen Liehong.
Defendant Zhou Fubo: My interaction with Wen Liehong, especially the process of playing cards, was during the 2010 World Cup, when I was working in Shaoyang, I came back on the weekend, and participated in some card gambling activities organized by Wen Liehong, because there were some entrepreneurs who participated, and the winning or losing of each card play was tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.
In 2014, due to the report of real estate owner Le Moucheng, the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau filed a case against Wen Liehong's illegal behavior. Wen Liehongtuo found Zhou Fubo.
Defendant Zhou Fubo: I want to take care of him.
Case-handling personnel: How to take care of it?
Defendant Zhou Fubo: I want to ask Changsha City about this and say hello to Changsha City.
Case-handling officer: So did you issue any more specific requirements and instructions with them?
Defendant Zhou Fubo: We must slow down the case and ask them to suppress the case, resulting in the case being finally withdrawn and handled. I am also deeply reflecting on it now, and it is my own behavior of violating discipline and violating the law that has led to Wen Liehong's illegal and criminal activities, which have not been investigated and punished in a timely manner according to law.
On June 19, 2019, the Intermediate People's Court of The Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Western Hunan Province publicly pronounced in the first instance the verdict of Zhou Fubo, deputy director of the former Provincial Office for Comprehensive Management of Hunan Province, for accepting bribes, having a huge amount of assets of unknown origin, harboring and conniving at a mafia-type organization, and sentenced Zhou Fubo to 19 years' imprisonment and a fine. On the same day, the Intermediate People's Court of Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, held a public hearing in the first instance and pronounced a verdict in the case of Shan Dayong, former deputy secretary of the party committee and executive deputy director of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau, for accepting bribes, harboring, and conniving at a mafia-type organization, and sentenced Shan Dayong to 17 years' imprisonment and a fine of 4 million yuan.