Henan Business Daily reporter Gao Peng/Wen Wang Chunsheng/Picture
A criminal gang mainly composed of suspects from Linhai, Zhejiang Province, used false identities to register enterprises and wantonly issued false VAT invoices to seek huge profits. On December 13, a reporter from Henan Business Daily learned that after two years of rigorous investigation by the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Economic Development Branch of the Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, they finally discovered the "9.12" extraordinarily large fraudulent value-added tax fraud involving more than 517 million yuan. The invoice case was successfully solved.
More than 3,000 companies have issued large value-added invoices without regular business, and the amount of falsely invoiced prices and taxes amounted to more than 517 million yuan
In September 2016, the Economic Investigation Branch of the Economic Development Branch of the Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau The brigade concentrated on accepting a batch of cases transferred by the Inspection Bureau of the Zhengzhou New District State Taxation Bureau: Zhengzhou Haimoufei Trading Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou Shunmouhua Trading Co., Ltd. and other companies had no fixed business in daily operations but frequently issued large amounts of value-added tax. The amount involved in the case was huge and seriously violated the national invoice management system and tax collection and administration system.
After preliminary investigation by the police, from October 2015 to April 2016, Zhengzhou Haimoufei Trading Co., Ltd. and many other companies sold goods to Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shenyang, Hubei, Hunan, 305 downstream companies in 9 provinces (cities) including Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Xinjiang issued value-added tax invoices, with the amount of value-added tax invoiced amounting to more than 517 million yuan.
On September 12, 2016, the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Economic and Development Branch filed a case of Zhengzhou Haimoufei Trading Co., Ltd. and other companies suspected of falsely issuing value-added tax invoices.
An electricity bill payment record sheet traced the main suspect
Faced with such a huge crime area, the police focused on the "flow of people, tickets, capital" and other aspects of the case, and delved deeper from the outside.
After extensive investigation and evidence collection, the police made a discovery. This batch of cases is the result of the same criminal gang continuing to commit crimes using the same method. The gang has a clear organizational structure, clear division of labor, and professional methods. It has registered a number of shell companies with complete licenses to serve its criminal activities of falsely issuing VAT invoices. These shell companies The companies were all falsely registered by employing agency companies using illegally obtained identity documents, and downstream ticket-buying companies could only purchase tickets through second- and third-level dealers, and had no access to the actual controllers of the shell companies.
“Generally, the VAT invoices normally issued by companies have a tax rate of about 17%. After these criminal suspects falsely issued invoices, they resold them to others for profit in the name of only requiring a tax rate of 5% to 6%.” Economic Investigation Brigade Deputy team leader Gao Qiang said that the above-mentioned companies are mostly involved in steel, gold and other industries, and have a large demand for invoices.
Since a large amount of funds from the sales invoices flowed to the bank accounts of Su and Bi, and their accounts had records of large-scale transfers and cash withdrawals in many provinces across the country, the police officers of the task force went in multiple directions to avoid the loss of evidence. Shanxi, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Yunnan and other places retrieved bank data and video evidence.
After comparison, it was found that the account holders Su and Bi who collected the sales invoices were all false identities, and the large amount of data and video evidence obtained by the police across multiple provinces could not be "identified".
"After spending nearly a year re-analyzing, combining and comparing tens of thousands of bank statements, we found important clues from an electricity bill payment record." Gao Qiang said that the house associated with the electricity bill was in Zhengzhou In a community in Jinshui District , the rental contract provided by the landlord showed that Li rented the house in 2015 and filled in his real ID number. However, what the police did not expect was that the suspect used a black pen to write down his identity information seriously. alter. After processing with relevant technical means, the police of the
project identified and restored the traces of the altered identity information bit by bit, and compared them among numerous video materials. Finally, in a piece of video data obtained from Kunming, Yunnan, the police identified the suspect Li.
"As soon as the trace was confirmed, the person ran away." After traveling to three provinces in 4 days, the main culprit was finally captured
After obtaining Li's true identity information, the police began to track Li through the big data platform. It has been confirmed that Li, female, is from Shizong County, Yunnan Province, and her whereabouts have been elusive all year round.
It was not until the end of June 2018 that Li was exposed again. Cai Minyi, the leader of the Economic Investigation Brigade, decided to arrest him immediately. The arrest team, led by Gao Qiang, Du Hui and other special police officers, immediately rushed to Li’s place of residence - —Shengsi Island, Zhoushan, Zhejiang.
When the police prepared to land on the island despite heavy rain, the intelligence team of the task force reported that Li’s traces had arrived in Shanghai. In order to prevent Li from escaping, the police rushed to Shanghai overnight to implement the arrest operation. With the cooperation of the local public security organs, the investigators finally determined his hiding place. Just before the arrest, Li secretly took a plane back to Kunming, Yunnan.
4 days in three provinces, the police always passed by Li, suffering both mental and physical torture.
In order to prevent missing the opportunity to arrest, the police divided into two groups and waited in the area where the suspect might appear. After two days and two nights of patrolling and squatting, Li was finally successfully captured in a private house in , Shizong County, Yunnan .
After an on-site sudden interrogation, the criminal suspect Li confessed to the criminal act of falsely issuing value-added tax invoices with his lover "Wang Mougen" and others, and confessed to seven other members of the gang who were registered in Linhai, Zhejiang.
The Internet was closed nationwide, and 55 people were arrested one after another.
According to the information provided by Li, the police immediately rushed to Linhai, Zhejiang to arrest other suspects. With the arrest of the main criminals Wang Mougen, Chen Mouhua, Wang Mouting, Xu Mou and others, the "9.12" extremely large case of falsely issuing special value-added tax invoices was successfully solved.
After investigation, it was found that the Linhai-registered group headed by Wang Mougen, Wang Mouqing (at large) and others used illegally obtained identity documents to falsely register companies through agency companies, and adopted rapid registration, rapid acquisition of general taxpayer qualifications, and rapid Using the method of issuing invoices, collecting invoices, and quickly escaping, more than 2,000 special value-added tax invoices were issued for 305 downstream enterprises in 9 provinces (municipalities) across the country.
On October 30, 2018, with the approval of the Ministry of Public Security, a cluster campaign involving Zhengzhou Haimoufei Trading Co., Ltd. and other companies suspected of falsely issuing special value-added tax invoices was officially launched. The policemen of the task force divided into multiple routes and went to Hebei, Shandong, Shanghai, Xinjiang and other provinces, as well as Xuchang, Pingdingshan, Luoyang and other places in Henan Province to handle the cases and delivered relevant evidence files and evidence CDs.
A reporter from Henan Business Daily learned that currently, the Communist Party of China has solved 116 cases in the "9.12" nationwide cluster campaign, arrested 55 suspects, and destroyed 123 criminal dens.
(Chief Editor Xu Chi Editor Hualijuan)
