References: Mass Publishing House, Selected Criminal Investigation Cases - Shanghai Railway Public Security Bureau Album, pp. 334-p337
At some point on February 3, 1990, on the 270 passenger train from Fuzhou to Guangzhou, the train that had just departed from Fuzhou Station was slowly accelerating around the urban area of Fuzhou. Suddenly, there was a fierce quarrel in the No. 7 hard seat car, and it turned out that when a passenger found the corresponding seat according to the ticket number of the ticket in his hand, he found that someone was already sitting on the seat, and this person was also holding the same ticket, and the 2 people argued for this seat and did not give in to each other. When the conductor called in the police to mediate, the 2 people had already begun to push and shove each other, and an all-armed walk was about to erupt.
The police officer ordered the 2 people to stand up and not to move again (whoever moved again was handcuffed), and then began to check the tickets held by the 2 people. It was found that the tickets in the hands of these 2 people were all hard seat tickets from Fuzhou to Zhuzhou, but the ticket number and restriction list of one of the tickets were not quite right, and it was determined that this ticket was a fake ticket.
Paper train tickets from the late 80s and early 90s
Fake tickets!
However, the manufacturing process of this fake ticket is very fine, the degree of simulation is extremely high, the general means of counterfeiting is difficult to forge, and its simulation degree is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the true and false. It can be said that the "degree of intention to make counterfeiting" of this fake ticket is undoubtedly the same as that of the shoddy fake tickets seized before.
In the following half a month (February 5 to February 17), the Fuzhou Station Police Station and the Spring Festival Working Group seized 48 fake tickets for the 270 passenger train "Fuzhou to Zhuzhou" and the 46 passenger train (now K46) "Fuzhou to Beijing" at Fuzhou Station, which had the same layout as the fake tickets seized on the 270 passenger trains on February 3.
The appearance of a large number of fake tickets in a short period of time made people inside and outside Fuzhou Station panic, and people looked at everyone like thieves, which greatly ruined the reputation of the railway. Therefore, the Fuzhou Railway Public Security Department of the Shanghai Railway Public Security Bureau held an emergency meeting to study and decided to form a special case team for the Fuzhou Station Forged Ticket Case, which was personally commanded by the director of the department and directly commanded by the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation.
K45/46 directional cards
In the records of the passengers who bought the fake tickets, it was learned that all the fake tickets were purchased at a high price after several turnovers (at that time, the Spring Festival was just over, and the peak of the return passenger flow came, so it was difficult to find a train ticket). The passengers concerned recalled: These ticket sellers have strange tracks, do not carry tickets, but negotiate the price with the passengers and then contact the "second-way dealers" to get tickets.
Immediately, the Fuzhou Station Police Station summoned several "scalper" ticket sellers who had been in Fuzhou Station for many years and had a case in the police station for questioning, and what surprised and laughed at the police was that although these old fritters admitted that the tickets were sold to passengers through their hands, they really did not know that the tickets sold by their hands were fake tickets - they sincerely believed that these tickets were real tickets.
"Scalper" ticket seller
Through the clues provided by these "old oilers" and the adoption of special investigations and the mobilization of mass reports and exposés, the special case team organized by the Fuzhou Railway Public Security Department, together with the Fuzhou Station Police Station, arrested 72 fake ticket sellers until February 20. Most of these ticket sellers did not know that the tickets they were selling were fake tickets, but only thought that they were selling real tickets at a higher price, so when they learned that these tickets were fake tickets, they showed incredible expressions.
Based on the above situation, the special case team believes that this is the work of a group of intelligent criminals who integrate organization, plate making, and printing.
Police officers wearing Type 89 police uniforms
Through the examination of the ticket sellers and the information transmitted by the "eyes and ears" planted in the ticket traffickers, the special case team preliminarily determined that the source of the fake tickets was a Changle man named "Li Baoren".
Subsequently, the special case team divided into three roads, one way to Zhanggang Township, Changle County, Fujian Province, to arrest "Li Baoren"; along the way, the 72 ticket dealers in custody continued to examine and strive to discover new clues; the third way did a good job in the ideological work of the victimized passengers, mobilizing them to actively provide new clues and help solve the case.
A female police officer wearing a Type 89 police uniform
On February 23, the Fuzhou Station police station seized 15 fake tickets for the 46-time train from Fuzhou to Beijing, and the special case team immediately organized the victims with tickets to assist in the work (8 of the 15 passengers expressed their willingness to cooperate with the work of the public security organs), and at 19:30 on the same day, 8 victimized passengers cooperated with plainclothes police near the Xiyuan Grand Hotel to identify the ticket sellers Li Jinlong and Chen Wenqing (2 people were from Changle County), and 2 people were immediately arrested by the police. From them, the accommodation invoice and access card of Room 1213 on the 12th floor of jiangbin building in Zhanjiang District, Fuzhou City were searched.
Riverside Building
After determining that Room 1213 of jiangbin building was the stronghold of ticket sellers in Fuzhou City, the special case team organized forces to conduct a raid on the jiangbin building overnight with lightning speed, and during the search process, it was found that 1 person on the 6th floor wanted to go upstairs through the fire staircase, and through the "eyes and ears" identified, this person was Li Baohe, a ticket seller from Zhanggang Township, Changle County, whose ancestral home was Changle County, and then this person was also arrested by the police. After questioning this person's room 606, the special case team immediately searched from rooms 1213 and 606, and found a total of 2 daggers, 4 fake tickets, 2 fake restriction sheets, and 2 copies of the telegram manuscript sent to Huang Zongting, Jiangshan Township, Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province.
Li Baohe was taken back to the Fuzhou Station police station for questioning, but he initially took a tough attitude and refused to confess. But after 10 hours of steaming wheel wars, he was finally forced to confess to selling fake tickets. According to Li Baohe's account, the special case team learned that the fake tickets were all provided by Li Baoren and Cheng Xiongguan from Zhanggang Township, Changle County, and that the storage point of the fake tickets was in a rented house by Li Yishui, the second brother of Li Baoren and his cousin Li Yifeng, of Shuangsaka Natural Village in Gushan Township, a suburb of Fuzhou City.
Without further ado, the special case group quickly organized forces to drive to Shuangsaka and seized 316 fake tickets for the 270 trains "Fuzhou to Zhuzhou", 188 fake tickets for the 46-time train "Fuzhou to Beijing", 1200 false seat number strips, and 303 fake restriction lists in the houses rented by Li Yishui and Li Yifeng's brothers and sisters.
The seat number strip affixed to the north side of the ticket
When the search continued, the police officers who were acting as perimeter guards found a taxi at the entrance of the village and immediately reported it with a walkie-talkie.
Taxis in Fuzhou in the 1990s
Unsurprisingly, the person who stepped into the house rented by the Li brothers and sisters was Li Baoren, who heard the wind and rushed to transfer the fake ticket. As soon as he stepped into the house, he realized that the situation was not right, and when he turned to flee, he was rushed up and thrown to the ground by the ambushed policemen, and they were caught.
A group of ticket sellers caught by the public security organs
After interrogation, Li Baoren admitted that the fake tickets for the 270 and 46 trains sold at Fuzhou Station were wholesale by him and Cheng Xiongguan.
In 1989, Through Wang Sibao, a ticket peddler in Changle County, Li Baoren and Cheng Xiongguan became acquainted with a group of criminals in Cangnan, Zhejiang Province, who specialized in making fake tickets and fake certificates. Immediately, Li Baoren and Cheng Xiongguan, as well as Sun Zongqi and Lin Yiyu from the same village, raised 13,000 yuan, and through the introduction of Huang Zongting, whose family lived in Jiangshan Township, Yishan District, Cangnan County, asked Wang Ruiyu, a counterfeiter living in Longgang Town, Cangnan County, to forge more than 1,000 fake train tickets (plus more than 400 pieces of printed waste), more than 1,000 fake seat number strips and restriction sheets (Li, Cheng, Sun, and Lin paid Huang Zongting 4,500 yuan for hard work and 5,000 yuan for printing and work costs). After obtaining this batch of tickets, the 4 people wholesale nearly 1,000 fake tickets to the various ticket sellers at Fuzhou Station, with a total of more than 6,000 yuan, Li Baoren received more than 1,800 yuan, and Cheng Xiongguan, Sun Zongqi and Lin Yiyu each received more than 1,400 yuan.
According to Li Baoren's account, the special case group dispatched 6 cadres and policemen to drive north to Cangnan county, and with the cooperation of the Cangnan County Public Security Bureau, destroyed the fake ticket-making den, arrested Huang Zongting, his wife Li Chennu, and Wang Ruiyu, and seized 4 pieces of template plates and other crime tools for printing fake tickets and fake restraint sheets. At Wang Ruiyu's residence, additional plates were seized for printing fake Fuzhou city grain stamps, Chengdu city gasoline tickets, and other tickets.
Fuzhou City Food Stamps
So far, the extraordinarily large ticket forgery case at Fuzhou Station was announced in only 10 days, a total of 8 criminals were arrested, and 508 fake tickets with a total face value of 29,700 yuan were seized; counterfeiting tools, photographic negatives, and a large number of forged seat number strips and ticket purchase restriction sheets were also seized; a number of forged Fuzhou city grain stamps, Chengdu gasoline tickets, Shanghai feed tickets, and other tickets and production plates were seized, which successfully eliminated a major hidden danger affecting social stability.