According to Hong Kong media reports such as Hong Kong's "East Net", the Criminal Department of the Mong Kok Police District of the Hong Kong police force conducted intelligence analysis last month, and after in-depth investigation and deployment, it launched an anti-triad operation code-named "Needle" at about 2 p.m. on October 26, destroying a pornographic film burning workshop in the suburbs of Yuen Long, covering an area of about 2,000 square feet (about 185.8 square meters), using warehouses as a cover, and at the same time destroying 8 distribution points in Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po, etc., seizing 27 burners and about 80,000 pornographic sheets. A large number of packaging tools and materials with a total value of more than HK$2.4 million (about 1.97 million yuan).

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The Hong Kong police arrested a total of 13 men aged 26 to 72, four of whom were illegal immigrants from the Mainland, who were arrested on suspicion of "possessing obscene materials for publication purposes", "posting obscene substances", "employing persons who cannot be legally employed" and "staying in Hong Kong without the authorization of the Director of Immigration". It is understood that the burning workshop and distribution points are controlled by the criminal gang "Heshenghe".
Female Inspector Su Yingchun of the Mong Kok Police District Anti-Triad Action Unit said that the investigation showed that the criminal group operated in a "one-stop" manner, arranging burning, packaging, transporting and selling, hiring mainlanders for burning work for a monthly salary of HK$3,000 (2,463 yuan), burning according to order demand every day, and then assigning drivers to transport pornography to distribution points, with different prices in each store, the most expensive 100 yuan 7 pieces, the cheapest can buy 20 pieces for 200 yuan. It can earn about HK$5 million (about 4.1 million yuan) per month.
According to the report, the police believe that the operation has successfully arrested the backbone and brains of the group and blocked the illegal source of income of the criminal group, and the operation is still continuing, and it is not excluded that more people have been arrested. (Editor: SDY)