Hangzhou, November 4 (Guo Qiyu) Reporters learned from a press conference held by the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department on the 4th that in the past year, the public security organs in the province have filed and investigated 4,839 cases of food and drug rings and intellectual property rights crimes, cracked 4,481 cases, and arrested 10,760 criminal suspects, an increase of 23.4 percent, 28 percent, and 27.6 percent, respectively, year-on-year.
Food and drug safety is related to the "safety on the tip of the tongue" and the vital interests of the masses. Wang Hui, chief of the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Investigation Corps of the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department, said that in the past year, the province has cracked 788 food and drug cases, destroyed 312 gangs, arrested 2,501 criminal suspects, and destroyed 484 dens, involving a value of 640 million yuan.
For example, in a case of production and sale of toxic and harmful food cracked by the Hangzhou police, 4 tons of finished animal offal and a large number of chemical substances such as formaldehyde and hydrogen peroxide used for processing soaked offal were seized on the spot.
"The criminal gang purchased animal offal frozen products from the Hangzhou Frozen Products Market, thawed and stewed them, and then used tablet alkali, hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde and other soaking to gain weight and bleach, and then sold them to farmers' markets, brine stores and other places." Chen Jinda, head of the Central Food and Drug Detachment of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, said that the criminal gang is well organized and has a clear division of labor, and special personnel are responsible for the three links of raw material procurement, soaking processing, and wholesale sales.
In a case of producing and using Internet celebrities to sell toxic and harmful slimming health care products detected by the Taizhou Luqiao police, the criminal gang produced slimming health care products containing sibutramine in the underground dens of Xinxiang, Henan, and signed nearly 20 Internet celebrities, rented a photo studio, and sold the toxic and harmful slimming health products through the live streaming of Internet celebrities, with a sales network in more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, with a cumulative sales amount of more than 100 million yuan.
It is understood that the police arrested more than 40 criminal suspects twice, destroyed the entire industrial chain of underground production dens, foundries, net red screenwriter photography studios, sales companies, delivery warehouses, etc., and seized more than 100,000 pieces of weight loss candy, sibutramine raw materials and 5 kilograms of mixed products.
"We will crack down on what crimes are prominent, and carry out the whole link, all elements, and the whole chain of crackdowns, and strive to make the masses feel more at ease." Wang Hui introduced that in the past year, the Zhejiang police have cracked 759 cases of counterfeit and shoddy products, destroyed 217 gangs, arrested 1827 criminal suspects, and destroyed 236 dens, involving a value of 1.337 billion yuan. (End)