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In order to monopolize the firecracker market, the director of a supply and marketing cooperative in Hubei Province privately set up an underground firecracker inspection team and abused lynching

Usually, the people of the ten miles and eight townships "talk about Zhao's discoloration", and when they encounter Zhao Mouqing, they must treat each other with courtesy, be respectful and respectful, and if they are not careful, they will be beaten severely

Zhao Mouqing, 52 years old this year, is known as "Zhao Ye". In order to monopolize the local fireworks market, he privately set up an underground firecracker inspection team, purchased uniform clothing, forged various law enforcement documents, and once found to be selling firecrackers outside his company, he confiscated them and took them away, beating the shopkeepers or ordering them to close.

He used violence, threats, and other means to systematically carry out illegal and criminal activities such as opening casinos, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, robbing, forcing transactions, extortion, and harboring, in order to do evil and dominate one side, causing a major and bad impact on Fengkou Town and surrounding areas in Honghu City, Hubei Province.

According to the notice of jurisdiction of the Jingzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in different places, the Jianli Municipal Public Security Bureau intervened in the investigation and handling of the case of Zhao Mouqing in Honghu City involving criminal syndicates and evil forces. The bureau quickly dispatched more than 20 police forces from criminal investigation, public security, state security, and police stations, arranged for a deputy director to be in charge, and formed a "12.27" special case group to enter Honghu City. With the continuous deepening of the investigation work, the skin of "Zhao Ye's" paintings involving criminal syndicates and evil crimes has been gradually peeled off...

Underground firecracker inspection team

Zhao Mouqing originally had a good life

In December 1989, after Zhao Mouqing retired from the army, he was arranged to work in the supply and marketing cooperatives of Fengkou Town, Honghu City. In June 1999, he was promoted to director of the town's supply and marketing cooperatives, and the future was bright. However, with the expansion of his desire for profit, he failed to live up to the education and organizational cultivation of the troops, and gradually went to the abyss of crime.

In June 2002, Zhao Mouqing registered and established Honghu Yulong Fireworks and Firecrackers Trading Co., Ltd., and successively recruited young bai and other people from the society to act as accomplices and expand their power, intending to monopolize the fireworks and firecrackers market in Honghu City. In order to prevent firecrackers from surrounding counties and cities from entering the Honghu Market, Zhao Mouqing privately set up an underground firecracker inspection team to purchase special clothing, equipment, and vehicles for the team members, and also forged the "Hubei Provincial Safety Production Supervision and Law Enforcement Certificate", produced the "List of Evidence For Prior Registration and Preservation" and "Notice of Evidence Preservation in Advance Registration", and organized inspection teams to inspect various township sales stores in Honghu City in the name of law enforcement to purify the market. Once it is found that the shop sells firecrackers other than the Jade Dragon Company, it is confiscated and taken away, and the owner is beaten or ordered to close.

The price of firecrackers in Yulong Company is higher than that of others, and some dealers secretly buy goods from other places, and Zhao Mouqing obstructs them in every way. In January 2018, a shopkeeper in Fengkou Town, Honghu City, purchased more than 50 pieces of disc firecrackers from Xiantao City and was unloading, zhao Mouqing heard the news, ordered Ma Zai to take more than 10 people to go, the momentum was fierce, beat the delivery staff, and pulled more than 50 pieces of disc firecrackers to the yulong company warehouse for their own use.

What is even worse is that they also arrange personnel to find out all delivery vehicles in surrounding counties and cities, register license plates one by one, find opportunities to secretly install GPS positioning systems, grasp the whereabouts of delivery vehicles at any time, and track and monitor interception. On December 25, 2017, Xiao Mou, a businessman in Xiantao City, and his wife drove a small truck to transport 60 firecrackers to Honghu Lake.

For safety reasons, the couple specially copied the path, but they did not expect to find that they were being followed when they reached Fengkou Town. Xiao Suspected that he was a member of the Jade Dragon Company, and was afraid in his heart, so he stopped and ran away with his wife. The horse boy who was driving the car immediately got out of the car to catch up, grabbed the two people, and then took the car to the Yulong Company and forcibly swallowed a car of firecrackers.

In January 2018, a deputy to the People's Congress of Jianli City drove a Wuling van with his companions, carrying two salutes and more than 10 sets of firecrackers to Honghu Lake to visit relatives, and when he walked to the vicinity of the Honghu Dai Town Health Center, he was stopped by Zhao Mouqing's men for inspection. The NPC deputies explained the situation to him and showed him the Jianli NPC deputies' credentials, and the people of the Yulong Company, without saying a word, forcibly seized the deputies' cards and mobile phones, abducted them to the Yulong Company for detention, and released them at about 1 a.m. the next day.

Over the past few years, Zhao Mouqing monopolized the firecracker market, illegally profiting more than 36.5 million yuan, and the local people dared to be angry and dare not speak.

Set up a casino to amass wealth

Opening a casino to make a profit

Opening casinos for profit is a common means used by some criminal syndicates and evil forces to accumulate wealth, and Zhao Mouqing's gang is no exception. During the Spring Festival from 2011 to 2017, Zhao Mouqing organized gang members to take turns to open casinos in the Fengkou Supply and Marketing Cooperative Guest House and a hotel in Fengkou to open casinos and gather people to gamble. The division of labor in the casino is clear, Zhao Mouqing directs and contacts the "old company" in the field after the scenes, his brother is responsible for casino management and cash income, and other members do "old man" dice, bookkeeping and grading, visiting the sentry and looking at the wind, picking up gamblers and so on. Bet from 100 yuan, not capped. Each bet is as little as thousands of yuan, as much as tens of thousands of yuan, and each profit is tens of thousands of yuan.

In order to monopolize the firecracker market, the director of a supply and marketing cooperative in Hubei Province privately set up an underground firecracker inspection team and abused lynching

The Jianli Municipal Public Security Bureau investigated some of the properties seized in Zhao Mouqing's black-related case.

In order to monopolize the firecracker market, the director of a supply and marketing cooperative in Hubei Province privately set up an underground firecracker inspection team and abused lynching

Antique porcelain seized in Zhao Mouqing's case.

In order to compete for a sphere of influence and ensure the source of gambling customers, the Zhao brothers instructed Bai and others to arm murder weapons and storm other sporadic casinos to exclude competitors. During the Spring Festival in 2011, Zhao Mouqing heard that there were people gambling in two hotels in Fengkou Town, so he instructed his men to "rush the field", injured the hotel owner, and threatened him not to open the game again, otherwise he would "smash it again and fight again".

According to the police handling the case, when Zhao Mouqing organized the opening of the casino, he also repeatedly forcibly invited people with certain economic strength to "lift the village", and the invited personnel did not dare not go because they were afraid of his obscenity. There are many gamblers who have a good business or career, because they lose gambling with "code money" in the casino, sell shops and real estate in order to repay high-interest gambling debts, lose their homes, and even their wives and children are separated.

Yang Mou, the person in charge of a bank in Fengkou Town, could not withstand Zhao Mouqing's repeated invitations, frequently went in and out of his casino, owed a huge gambling debt, sold the house, lost his public office, left his hometown, and did not dare to go home for many years.

After investigation, Zhao Mouqing's gambling gang illegally profited more than 15 million yuan.

The case involving black money was solved

Zhao Mouqing was honored as "Zhao Ye"

Zhao Mouqing has absolute authority in the gang organization and is called "Zhao Ye" by the members of the organization. In order to expand the illegal influence and establish illegal authority, Zhao Mouqing did not hesitate to use any means to endanger the masses.

One morning in March 2015, Shen Mou, a bus driver in Honghu City, drove a passenger shuttle bus to Xiantao City, and when he reached the second middle section of Fengkou Town, he was blocked by a funeral procession, and Shen honked his horn to signal the funeral procession to lean on the side of the road. Who knew that several people rushed out of the funeral procession, dragged Shen Mou down the cab, put it in front of the coffin, and shouted: "Don't you want to kneel down to pay tribute to Old Lady Zhao!" It turned out that it was Zhao Mouqing's father who came out of the funeral that day. Shen Mou was forced by "Zhao Ye" to be obscene, hurriedly knelt on his knees, and prostrated his head 3 times in a row.

Usually, the people of the ten miles and eight townships "talk about Zhao's discoloration", and when they encounter Zhao Mouqing, they must treat each other with courtesy, be respectful and respectful, and if they are not careful, they will be beaten severely. On March 3, 2017, the victim, Wei Mouqing, spoke a little louder in front of Zhao Mouqing, and Zhao Mouqing thought that it was an offense to his dignity, so he asked his subordinates to beat Wei mou with a stick. According to the forensic identification, Wei Mou's bilateral upper-middle tibial crushing fracture was of the first degree of minor injury. On December 27, 2018, the Jianli Municipal Public Security Bureau designated the investigation and handling of Zhao Mouqing's case involving criminal syndicates and evils. The bureau quickly dispatched more than 20 police forces from criminal investigation, public security, and police stations to form a "12.27" special case team stationed in Honghu City. After several months of unremitting efforts, the organizational characteristics, behavioral characteristics and harmful characteristics of Zhao Mouqing's mafia-type organization gradually became clear, and the police searched for more than 120 witnesses, collected more than 200 pieces of evidence, identified more than 40 illegal and criminal acts, and seized, sealed, and frozen nearly 40 million yuan of assets involved in the case.

In order to monopolize the firecracker market, the director of a supply and marketing cooperative in Hubei Province privately set up an underground firecracker inspection team and abused lynching

Zhao Mouqing was the scene of the trial.

On the basis of a large amount of evidence, on May 7, 2019, the Jianli Municipal Public Security Bureau organized more than 100 police forces to go to Wuhan, Honghu Xindi, Fengkou and other places to arrest and arrest 12 criminal suspects, including the main criminal Zhao Mouqing, on the spot, and 15 more people involved in the case have since arrived.

The collapse of criminal gangs

Prosecution charges

On January 10, 2020, the Jianli Municipal Public Security Bureau transferred the case to the Jianli Municipal People's Procuratorate for review and prosecution. On June 29, 2020, the Jianli Municipal People's Procuratorate filed a public indictment with the Jianli Municipal People's Court, accusing Zhao Mouqing and 27 other defendants of 9 crimes including organizing, leading, and participating in a mafia-type organization. From August 17 to 19 of the same year, the case was heard in public at the first instance trial of the Jianli Municipal People's Court.

The procuratorial organs alleged: Since 2003, defendant Zhao Mouqing has recruited a number of people to carry out illegal and criminal activities on many occasions, established a strong position in Fengkou Town and surrounding areas of Honghu City, and gradually formed a mafia-type organization with it as the leader of the organization.

Since 2011, in order to obtain illegal benefits, the organization and its members have organized underground casinos, suppressed and squeezed competitors to illegally monopolize the fireworks and firecrackers market in Honghu City, carried out criminal acts such as picking quarrels and provoking trouble, forcing transactions, robbing property, harboring, and intentionally injuring people, doing evil for non-evil, bullying and maiming the masses, illegally controlling and monopolizing the fireworks and firecracker industry in Honghu City and the underground gambling industry in Fengkou Town, so that the local people's sense of security is reduced, the credibility of the government is damaged, and the order of economic and social life is seriously undermined.

During the trial, the public prosecutor presented and cross-examined evidence in accordance with the law around the alleged illegal and criminal facts, issued public prosecution opinions on the facts of the case, evidence, conviction and sentencing circumstances, and the disposition of assets involved in the case, and responded with 27 defendants and their defenders around the focus of the dispute, combined with factual evidence and application of law. During the defendant's final presentation, a total of 25 defendants pleaded guilty and accepted punishment.

On August 31, 2020, the Jianli Municipal People's Court pronounced a first-instance judgment on Zhao Mouqing and 27 others suspected of organizing, leading, and participating in mafia-type organizations, opening casinos, forced trading, extortion, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, illegal detention, robbery, harboring, and intentional injury, and the main offender, Zhao Mouqing, was sentenced to 22 years in prison, deprived of political rights for 4 years, and confiscated all personal property. The other 26 defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 1 year and 3 months to 11 years and 4 months, and fined or confiscated all personal property.

(Original title: Director of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Abuses Lynching for Monopolizing the Firecracker Market)

Source: Legal System and News WeChat Public Account | Author He Zhengxin Wang Gongwen Xia Xiaoyan

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