Sand mining was originally a legal business, but unexpectedly it became a means for gangs involved in gangs to make money. Gangs involved in gangs have dominated one side and made illegal profits of 223 million yuan in a few years...
Since 2018, Zhaoqing police, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department, have successively launched centralized operations to crack down on gangsters and other gang-related crimes. After more than a year of painstaking efforts and several network closing operations, Guangning police completed the "8·15" project and eradicated a large gang involved in monopolizing river sand resources in the Guangning section of Suijiang . Fifty-one criminal suspects including Chen Moupeng, Chen Mouxing, and Chen Moping were captured, more than 23.28 million yuan of funds involved in the case were frozen and seized, 6.83 million yuan of stolen money was recovered, and 7 vehicles, 11 boats, and 1,797 cubic meters of river sand were seized. 20 real estate properties were seized, and the total value of the property involved was more than 55.41 million yuan.
Police arrested the suspect.
The establishment of an illegal sand mining kingdom in the Guangning section of the Suijiang River
The Suijiang River is one of the tributaries of the Beijiang River, crossing Zhaoqing City Guangning County from northwest to southeast. From Niuqi Village in the upper reaches to Chunshui Gas Station in the lower reaches, the Suijiang River flows through the county for 55 kilometers. The villagers in Guangning County use water to generate electricity, fish and shrimp, and live a leisurely life. However, a group of lawless elements illegally mined river sand, causing the Guangning section of the Suijiang River to lose its former peace and tranquility.
In August 2018, the Public Security Bureau of Guangning County, Zhaoqing City received reports from the public that a man named Chen Moupeng (male, 50 years old), Chen Mouxing (male, 37 years old), and Chen Mouping (male, 45 years old), all from Zhaoqing A gang headed by Quang Ninh is suspected of illegally mining river sand. On the 15th of the same month, Zhaoqing police set up a special task force to launch an investigation.
"Joint Battlefield" first entered the police investigation field of view. Through investigation, the police found that from 2010 to 2018, 10 sandfields including Xinlian Sandfield, Changxing Sandfield, and Huaxiang Sandfield in Guangning County were successively established, collectively known as "United Sandfield" to the outside world. These 10 sandfields are distributed from top to bottom along the Suijiang River. According to their location, they are divided into Niuqi Sandfield, Zhangbu Sandfield, Guanbu Sandfield and Fuluo Sandfield.
Illegal sand mining vessels.
There is a shipyard on the river opposite Shijian Town and Zhouzai Town . According to regulations, legally qualified bidders can carry out routine sand mining from 7 to 19 o'clock every day. Each tender section ship departs from the shipyard every day, and after pumping sand from the river, the river sand is transported to the four major sandfields for sale to customers.
It stands to reason that sand mining is a formal business under the supervision of the Water Bureau. The reporter saw from the "Guangning County Suijiang Discharge Sand Wazaogang Minable Area Sand Mining Project Permit" that the sand mining operation focuses on the sand mining scope, sand mining period, operation time, owner unit, etc., and is provided by Guangning County Water Affairs The Bureau is responsible for supervision. However, the police discovered through investigation that this gang secretly established an illegal sand mining kingdom.
covets the huge profits from mining and selling river sand. The group is not satisfied with winning the bid to pump sand according to regulations. Chen Moupeng and Chen Mouxing established the "joint battlefield" mentioned above. Under the leadership of Chen Mouping, the staff of the "United Sand Field" office used legal sand mining qualifications as a cover to monopolize the mining rights and sales rights of the river sand mining area in the Guangning reach of Suijiang River.
Subsequently, the police further investigated and found that the "United Battlefield" was established by Chen Mouxing and Chen Moupeng in a ratio of 6:4 and implemented corporate operations. Internal personnel had a clear division of labor and each performed their own duties. There was a general manager, a superior There are many positions such as the person in charge of downstream procurement and marketing, the person in charge of the shipyard, the finance manager, the sand pumping ship captain, and the sand pumping ship captain. The gang purchased 10 sand pumping ships and set up multiple sand fields or sand dumping points along the Guangning River Section of the Suijiang River. They used methods such as camouflaging tender ships, cross-border mining, and overtime start of construction to evade supervision, and divided the Guangning River Section of the Suijiang River into The two major mining areas, the upstream and the downstream, work freely within the mining areas, illegally mining river sand and making huge profits from it.
After a special audit, the police found that the permitted sand mining quantity for the eight river sand sections won by the "United Sand Field" was 990,000 cubic meters. However, the gang mined a total of 990,000 cubic meters of river sand between April 2013 and December 18, 2018. 5.135 million cubic meters of sand and illegal profits of 223 million yuan.
It is understood that because the gang works at night for a long time, there is an endless stream of trucks coming to load sand, which seriously affects the normal work and rest of local villagers.Trucks carrying sand spilled broken sand and muddy water along the way, seriously affecting the road environment. The local people were deeply disturbed, but they dared not speak out. In just a few years, the gang monopolized the local river sand mining market, controlled local river sand prices, and illegally stole national mineral resources, seriously endangering the stability of river embankments and the lives of the people.
Illegal sand mining vessels.
The gang organization behind illegal sand mining
How did the sand mining business in the Guangning section of Suijiang gradually come under the control of a gang headed by Chen Moupeng? Since the beginning of this year, Guangning police have received reports and phone calls from the public one after another, reflecting that this gang has been entrenched in Guangning County for many years and has seriously disrupted the normal financial order and social life order in the local area. When talking about Chen Moupeng, the first reaction of local villagers was fear.
Time goes back to December 2008. At that time, Chen Moupeng had not yet been involved in the river sand business, but he was doing well in the entertainment industry. He contracted the Yun Mou Villa in Guangning County at a monthly rent of 150,000 yuan. The villa operates karaoke bars, discos, tourism and other businesses, but its main function is to organize members to gather. Here, Chen Moupeng gathered Li Mouming, Fan Mouqing and others with criminal records. These people are Chen Moupeng's right-hand men. They summoned Deng Moubin and others to watch the Yun Villa. They sold drugs and gathered people to gamble in the venue, and gradually formed a gangland organization headed by Chen Moupeng, which provided the basis for the subsequent The foundations of an empire of illegal sand mining were laid.
Under the management of Chen Moupeng, the strength and influence of this organization have continued to increase. Beginning in 2009, Chen Moupeng sensed the business opportunities in Suijiang river sand and planned to get involved in Guangning river sand mining and sales. With his power, he hooked up with Chen Mouxing, who was rich in industry experience, and established a "joint battlefield".
In 2012, Yun Mou Villa quietly closed its doors. With nothing to rely on, members of this underworld organization gradually turned to the sand mining industry. In order to maintain the absolute monopoly of the "United Sand Field" and prevent the sand mining profits from flowing out, Chen Moupeng and Chen Mouxing specially formed a "patrol team" to guard the sand mining operations. Members of the "patrol team" receive monthly wages from Chen Mouping. Their task is to track each ship and confirm that it sells sand and gravel to designated customers. Li Mouming and Fan Mouqing organized personnel to drive and patrol along the river every day. Once they found someone illegally mining river sand, they used intimidation and threats to stop the other party and ensure the normal operation of the sand mining operation in the "Joint Sand Field". Over the past few years, the gang's power has continued to expand, forming a profit-making system for illegal mining of river sand headed by Chen Mouping, and a violent criminal system headed by Li Mouming and Fan Mouqing.
In June 2017, Lanmoufang Bar became a new stronghold of the gang. At 1:45 on July 13, 2018, a group of people wearing black clothes, black pants and black shoes walked out of the bar one after another. It turned out that due to a quarrel with spectators at a club in Guangning County, members of the gang, Deng Moubin and Huang Mouwei, were waiting for an opportunity to retaliate against each other. They gathered Wu Molong, Li Moumou and others to beat the parties Feng Moumou and Chen Moumou with machetes, sticks, bricks, etc. Later, in order to vent their anger, they used long knives and iron bars to smash up another company run by the club owner. What's even more disgusting is that these people don't even spare passing vehicles. At 1:52 that day, an unrelated vehicle passed by. They directly stepped forward and smashed it, causing the driver to abandon the vehicle and flee.
The above is just an example of the gang’s evil ways to dominate. Police investigation found that in the past 10 years, the Gushui "horse-showing" incident and crowd fighting incidents that occurred in Guangning area in the past 10 years were all related to this gang. In addition, because Chen Moupeng is from Hengshan Town, Guangning County, and has great influence in the town, the gang also manipulated and sabotaged grassroots general elections and controlled grassroots political power.
51 criminal suspects have been arrested
There are many rivers in Zhaoqing City, and the rich river sand resources have become the targets of criminals. The illegal mining of river sand has always been included in the scope of key rectification measures by the Zhaoqing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. In order to completely destroy the gang, Zhaoqing police have launched multiple operations to close the network.
In the early morning of December 18, 2018, the Zhaoqing City and Guangning County police launched a large-scale arrest operation, dispatching 300 police officers divided into 30 arrest teams, and captured Chen Moupeng, Chen Mouxing, Chen Moumou, Deng Moubin, etc. The main suspect.
Due to the bad influence of the gang in the local area, it caused huge psychological fear to the local people. After Chen Moupeng was arrested, some victims were frightened by the gang's power and "protective umbrella" and did not dare to go to the public security organs to testify, and even asked the police to provide evidence. Personal protection puts pressure on the police.
In May of this year, the Quang Ninh police withstood the pressure and made a breakthrough, waiting for an opportunity to arrest the remaining members of the gang. Just as the police were preparing to dispatch police forces, they found a photo, which was copied from a note. The note said, "I'm already at the prosecutor's office, asking people to check who is on the fugitive list online and see if there is a boss." I am willing to help and tell them not to surrender..." It turned out that Deng Moubin, who had been arrested, secretly found someone to tip off the gang members. After receiving the news, Wu Moulong and other gang members planned to flee to Foshan in the early morning of May 16.
Subsequently, Guangning police quickly changed their plans and launched an arrest operation in advance. On the night of the 15th of that month, the police set up an ambush near the suspect's residence. At 5:30 the next day, when the criminal suspect was preparing to leave, nearly 70 police officers were immediately dispatched and arrested six gang members including Wu Moulong and Huang Mouwei.
As of press time, the police had arrested 51 suspects including Chen Moupeng and detained 39 people. The gang is involved in the crimes of organizing, leading, and participating in underworld organizations, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, intentionally injuring, illegally possessing firearms, selling drugs, allowing others to take drugs, extortion, gathering to fight, and harboring.
html On September 18, except for the gang-related criminal suspect Li Mouming, who is still at large, the remaining 11 gang-related criminal suspects were transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution on the crime of organizing, leading, and participating in a gang-type organization. In addition, through clues from this case, the disciplinary supervision department established 11 "protective umbrella" cases and investigated and punished 11 people. They also established 1 case of manipulating grassroots political power and investigated and punished one person.reporter Li Xiaodong correspondent Luo Jianbin text/picture
editor He Yiqian
