Jincheng Qinshui police destroyed a "Bangxin" criminal group and arrested 137 suspects. Jincheng Photo courtesy of police
Jincheng Qinshui police destroyed a "Bangxin" criminal group and arrested 137 suspects. Picture provided by Jincheng police
China News Service, Jincheng, June 14 (Reporter Li Tingyao) The reporter learned from the Jincheng Public Security Bureau of Shanxi Province on the 14th that Jincheng Qinshui police destroyed a "bangxin" criminal group and arrested 137 suspects. More than 90 crime tools such as computers and mobile phones were seized, and 64 telecommunications network fraud cases were solved, involving more than 2.7 billion yuan.
A very large "Bangxin" criminal group surfaced
On July 24, 2021, the Qinshui County Public Security Bureau received a clue: Ma Moufei, a villager in Duanshi Town, in the county, was suspected of renting and selling his bank card. After
received the clues, the Qinshui County Public Security Bureau immediately launched an investigation. After preliminary verification, the police found that the flow of funds in Ma Moufei's multiple bank accounts was abnormal, and he was suspected of committing a crime, so they launched an investigation into Ma Moufei and later arrested him. After
arrived at the case, in order to evade the attack, Ma Moufei only confessed that he was hired by Zhang to use the rented house as a "studio" and used his own bank cards and those of others to pay for an overseas online gambling platform "Shangxiafen". The behavior of settlement and other services conceals a large number of criminal facts.
Based on Ma Moufei’s confession and the preliminary investigation and understanding, the police continued to expand the lines, conduct investigations and judgments one by one on the persons who may be involved in the case, and launched two centralized network closures on August 6 and August 12, 2021. The principal culprit Liu Moujia and 14 card collectors and transfer operators involved in the case including Zhang, Le, and Song were arrested and brought to justice.
Subsequently, the police handling the case continued to expand the investigation by analyzing the flow of bank funds, combined with investigation, interrogation and other work. A well-organized and hierarchical criminal group with many people involved and a huge amount of money involved was exposed. In the investigator's field of vision.
137 people were arrested
From early September to mid-November 2021, Qinshui police launched 4 concentrated net closing operations and arrested 68 suspects. Among them, Pei Mouxiong, another principal criminal of the criminal group, was arrested. The police followed the lead and made multiple arrests, capturing 55 more suspects. So far, a total of 137 suspects have been arrested.
So far, this criminal group that has long provided payment and settlement services for overseas gambling websites and telecommunications network fraud gangs has been destroyed.
"It took us more than half a year to handle this case, and we queried more than 6 million bank transaction details, forming a case file of more than 20,000 pages." said the policeman handling the case.
The suspect formed an offensive and defensive alliance to confront the investigation
After investigation, in October 2020, the criminal suspect Ma Moufei conspired with Liu Moujia and others to open a "studio" in a certain place to help an online gambling platform pay and settle gambling funds. Later, Pei Mouxiong and Liu Moujia successively recruited many people, purchased other people's bank accounts at high prices, rented houses and opened "studio" to help information network criminals pay and settle stolen money.
During this period, in order to obtain greater profits, Pei Mouxiong and Liu Moujia used high salaries and high prices as bait, and used the method of "people pulling people" to acquire bank accounts, recruit transfer personnel, and develop downline agents. In just half a year, A very large criminal group was formed, headed by Pei Mouxiong and Liu Moujia, with Lian Gao, Duan Moubing and other eight leaders, and Li Moujiang, Ma Moufei and others as the backbone.
From October 2020 to August 2021, the criminal group rented multiple houses to open "studio", and used more than 500 bank accounts acquired at high prices to help information network crimes pay and settle funds of more than 2.7 billion yuan, making illegal profits. More than 5 million yuan.
"This criminal group is well-organized, has a clear division of labor, and members cooperate with each other to commit crimes. In order to avoid attacks and resist investigations, they have formed offensive and defensive alliances, compiled a 'manual' for responding to investigations, and even hired lawyers, paid 'hush money,' etc. Means to win over people's hearts," said the policeman handling the case.
Currently, 47 ringleaders and key members of the criminal group have been transferred for review and prosecution, and the second phase of review and prosecution is in progress. (End)
