On May 7, the first case of "routine loans" in Hunan Province was tried in the Changsha County Court, and the suspect covered his face with his hands. Photo/ Reporter Jin Lin
"Borrow 50,000, you have to pay 20,000 'intermediary fees'." "Of the $1.68 million worth of properties, only 1.15 million were sold." ...... Behind the seemingly formal companies are criminal organizations that employ idle people to carry out "routine loans" and illegally collect economic benefits. On the morning of May 7, Hunan Province's first case involving "routine loans" was tried at the Changsha County People's Court, and 24 defendants were tried.
In order to accurately locate the location and whereabouts of the borrower, the mafia-type organization also sought out the public security police to obtain information on the whereabouts of citizens, providing convenience for the organization's illegal and criminal activities.
Given the complexity of the case, the case is still pending.
948 pieces of citizens' personal information, including real-time information such as opening a house and surfing the Internet, were transmitted through the channel of "DingTalk Secret Chat". Soon, some people who were leaked information were found by a mafia-type organization and encountered a series of nuisances and threats...
The investigation found that the person who leaked the citizens' personal information was Wang Hao, the captain of the video squadron of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau's bus sub-bureau, and his younger brother Wang Kai was one of the members of the mafia-type organization. It is worth noting that in order to hide the eyes and ears of the people, the gang organizer Wang Youqiang and others also specially set up a "regular" company.
On the morning of May 7, Hunan Province's first case involving "routine loans" was tried in the Changsha County Court, and 24 defendants, including Wang Hao and Wang Kai, were publicly tried and charged with nine counts, including organizing, leading, and participating in triad-type organizations.
The whereabouts of one of the victims remain unknown
The indictment alleges that after the Spring Festival in 2015, defendants Wang Youqiang, Zou Bin and Li Sheng colluded with each other to start engaging in usury activities within Changsha City and hiring idle members of society to carry out illegal collection activities. In order to further obtain illegal benefits, the three people conspired to establish the "Binsheng Consignment Bank in Furong District, Changsha City" (hereinafter referred to as "Binsheng Consignment Bank") on September 10, 2015, and began to carry out illegal loan collection activities in an organized manner.
Subsequently, considering the greater legal risks of the industry, in order to cover up their illegal and criminal activities in a legal form, the three people established Changsha Baoyue Dingshi Information Consulting Service Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Baoyue Company") and "Changsha Xingsha Binqiang Daily Necessities Consignment Store" (still in the name of "Binsheng Consignment Store").
Since then, in order to further develop and strengthen the organizational power, defendants Wang Youqiang, Zou Bin, and Li Sheng have gradually used the relationship between fellow villagers and friends as a link to develop, absorb, and hire idle members of society and persons released from prison to join the organization, forming a relatively stable criminal organization.
Using various forms such as debt collection companies and "underground law enforcement teams," the organization specifically engaged in "routine loans" and soft and hard violent collection activities in Changsha and surrounding areas, and through the use of the shielding and connivance of state functionaries, it carried out illegal loan collection activities for a long time and many times. The organization changed from small to large, from weak to strong, and eventually developed into a mafia-type organization with defendants Wang Youqiang, Zou Bin, and Li Sheng as the organization and leaders.
They amassed property and obtained economic benefits through "routine loans," illegal collection, meddling in civil disputes, forcibly occupying other people's houses, and organizing investments; and then they used the economic strength formed by the organization to maintain and expand their monopoly position in criminal organizations and seek industry monopolies by means of raising "horse boys," arranging food and lodging, and paying wages, car allowances, and collection commissions to "foreign visitors," and used the illegal funds obtained to purchase crime tools and personal accident insurance for the organization's collection personnel. Material rewards will be given to members of the organization with outstanding performance, and compensation will be provided for the aftermath of the illegal and criminal acts committed by the members of the organization.
This mafia-type organization has formed a notoriety in the collection industry in Changsha City and in the Changsha County area, causing many people to go out into hiding after their legitimate interests have been infringed upon by criminal activities, and dare not report or accuse through proper channels, and the whereabouts of one of them are still unknown.
The police shielded and connived, leaking nearly a thousand pieces of citizen information
In order to accurately locate the borrower's location and whereabouts and develop its strength, the mafia-type organization also absorbed Wang Kai as a channel to obtain information on the whereabouts of citizens, and obtained information on the whereabouts of citizens through Wang Kai, who was then the squadron leader of the video squadron of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau's Bus Branch, to provide convenience for the organization's illegal and criminal activities.
According to the indictment, in July 2017, in order to improve its performance and solve the problem of being unable to accurately locate the whereabouts of the person being collected, the mafia-type organization decided after consultation and decision by Wang Youqiang and others to invest 9,000 yuan per month as a reward, and through members of the organization, Zeng Yan and Wang Kai, purchased information on the whereabouts of citizens from the public security police.
From August 2017 to March 2018, Zeng Yan, in accordance with organizational arrangements, handed over the names and ID numbers of the persons to be collected that needed to be queried to Wang Kai on a monthly basis, and Wang Kai handed over the details of the people to be inquired to his brother Wang Hao.
The indictment alleges that Wang Hao, as a police officer of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau's Bus Branch, has long been engaged in criminal investigation and intelligence collection, knowing that citizens' real-time room opening, Internet access and other information will be used for illegal collection, but still taking advantage of his position to provide Wang Kai with information on the whereabouts of the personnel to be inquired for a long time and with high frequency. During this period, Wang Hao illegally obtained and provided Wang Kai with a total of 948 pieces of information on the whereabouts of citizens, and Wang Kai forwarded this information to Wang Youqiang and others through Zeng Yan to locate the debtor for illegal collection.
In order not to be discovered, Wang Hao thought of many ways to evade investigation: deleted his own query records, and professor Wang Kai used "DingTalk Secret Chat" and other methods to contact one-line.
According to statistics, among the 948 pieces of information on the whereabouts of citizens mentioned above, 10 pieces of real-time whereabouts information were used by this mafia-type organization to carry out illegal and criminal acts of picking quarrels and provoking troubles.
The Changsha County Procuratorate held that Wang Hao, as a functionary of a state organ, harbored and connived at mafia-type organizations to carry out illegal activities, and should be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of harboring and conniving at mafia-type organizations, and that Wang Hao violated relevant state regulations by providing citizens' personal information to others, the circumstances were particularly serious, and he should be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information.
Case 1
Retired police officers were forced to transfer their properties at low prices
A retired public security policeman, Cheng Mou, was deeply affected by "routine loans".
On June 5, 2017, Cheng needed to borrow 50,000 yuan from Binsheng Consignment Bank due to personal consumption, agreed to have a monthly interest rate of 1 dime and 5 cents, Wang Youqiang, Zou Bin and Zeng Liang deducted 20,000 yuan in advance in the name of "beheading interest" and "intermediary fee", and Cheng actually obtained 30,000 yuan and signed a false housing lease contract. After Cheng was overdue, the above-mentioned defendant forced the victim Cheng to sign a 230,000 yuan inflated loan contract and make a bank statement on two occasions.
After that, Wang Youqiang and others repeatedly used nuisance, pestering, "cattle watching" and verbal threats to force Cheng to sell his house at a low price. On December 1, 2017, Cheng was forced to transfer his house in Yuhua District of Changsha City to Zou Bin for 1.35 million yuan, and Zou Bin actually paid 1.15 million yuan to obtain it, and after assessing the value of the house was 1.685 million yuan, Cheng was extorted for a total of 509,486 yuan.
Cheng's encounter is only one of the facts of the crime of the mafia-related organization. The Changsha County Procuratorate alleged that during the existence of the mafia-type organization, it committed 1 crime of robbery, 10 crimes of extortion, 1 crime of forced trading, 17 illegal acts of picking quarrels and provoking troubles, 5 crimes of illegally invading residences, 1 crime of illegal detention, and 1 crime of infringing on citizens' personal information, with a total of more than 3 million yuan of illegal profits.
Case 2
The victim became the lover of the gang members
Among the many defendants, there is a woman named Liu Jing, who was originally a victim, but developed an extramarital affair with a man in the gang, using the other party's "power" to find her ex-boyfriend to claim debts.
Liu Jing and Liu Mou were originally boyfriend and girlfriend, Liu Mou had asked Liu Jing to borrow money during the relationship renewal period, and an economic dispute arose after the two broke up.
In September 2017, Liu Jing was illegally collected by the mafia-type organization in this case because of borrowing money on the microfinance platform, he Zhenhua was arranged by the organization to conceal his marriage in the process of collecting Liu Jing, and developed a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship with Liu Jing, after which He Zhenhua used the organizational power to help Liu Jing claim debts from Liu Jing together.
On January 14, 2018, Wang Youqiang, Zou Bin, He Zhenhua, Liu Jing, etc. went to Zhuzhou to find Liu mou to claim debts, which later caused a dispute. After mediation by the local police in Zhuzhou, the two sides voluntarily reached an agreement and agreed that Liu would pay Liu Jing 70,000 yuan. However, after coming out of the police station at about 23:00 on the same day, they did not let Liu Mou go. They forcibly took Liu to Xiangtan City, detained him in a bathing center, and forced him to repay his debts by beating, cigarette butt burns, insults, threats, etc. By the afternoon of January 15, they took Liu to Zhuzhou City, wanting Liu to sell his house, and then continued to detain Liu after failing.
It was not until about 10 o'clock on January 16 that Liu was forced to rewrite the IOU owed to Liu Jing of 120,000 yuan before he was able to leave. So far, Liu mou has been illegally restricted from personal freedom for more than 30 hours.