The Hechuan police in Chongqing spent six months investigating and collecting evidence. Recently, with the last team member being arrested in Jiangsu, the "counterfeit gold" pawn fraud case in Hechuan District, Chongqing is about to be concluded.

Concealing the truth and taking advantage of others... These military strategies have been used in deception and abduction. After careful planning, division of labor, packaging and interpretation, a batch of gold-plated handicrafts were "turned into gold", which is indistinguishable. The Hechuan police in Chongqing spent six months investigating and collecting evidence. Recently, with the last team member being arrested in Jiangsu, the "counterfeit gold" pawn fraud case in Hechuan District, Chongqing is about to be concluded. So far, this fraud gang consisting of seven members and operating in five provinces (cities) has been destroyed by the police.

The suspect identified the scene

Only pledged but not sold More than 40 crimes were committed in less than two months

By chance, Zeng discovered that regardless of color, weight or workmanship details, gold handicrafts purchased online were indistinguishable from real gold. "If it is not cut open and thoroughly tested, it will definitely be fake." After discovering the "secret", Zeng had evil thoughts and began to recruit gangs and embarked on a criminal path.

In September last year, Zeng brought his team to Hechuan District, Chongqing City, planning to "sweep stores" here. The so-called store sweeps meant that he and another team leader, Li, each led a team to defraud all the gold processing stores and pawn shops in the target area one by one.

only mortgages, not sells, Zeng knew it well. If you sell it, you have to have professionals cut and melt it to check the authenticity, which is risky and has a low success rate. However, the mortgage inspection process is much simpler. After

locked the target, he took out the gold imitation handicrafts he bought online and repeatedly emphasized: "Be confident and let the boss think that you are in urgent need of money and have no choice but to mortgage." Just like the head teacher sending students to the examination room, Zeng kept chattering, He was worried, "Once the inspection starts, chat with the boss for a few words, even go to the toilet to distract..."

If he is exposed, he will have a way to escape; if he succeeds, he will notify another team Team members, defraud the boss who has already been deceived a second time, and get another hit.

In order to perfect the routine, Zeng put a lot of thought into recruitment, purchasing, teaching, and division of labor. With the word "professional", he committed more than 40 crimes in less than two months, making a profit of more than 410,000 yuan, and his footprints are all over 5 province (city) until it fell into the hands of the Chongqing Hechuan police.

The suspect claimed to be the victim and encountered bottlenecks in the investigation of the case.

On September 11, 2021, the Intelligence Brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Hechuan District Public Security Bureau received a report from the masses, saying that two men with foreign accents were pawning "gold" jewelry in the Hechuan urban area. Carrying out fraud. After receiving the report, the police quickly launched a verification investigation and clarified the suspect's identity information and whereabouts. Through analysis and judgment, it was found that the case was committed by an organized and cross-regional gang with clear division of labor. The police judged that the gang was very likely to commit another crime in Hechuan.

As the police expected, on the afternoon of September 14, a member of the gang came to a gold and silver processing store on Danan Street in Hechuan District to commit crimes again, and was caught by the police on the spot. At the same time, in a hotel in Baolong City Plaza, the police arrested 4 other people. Several gang members were arrested in one fell swoop, including Zeng, the principal criminal responsible for overall command.

"I am also a victim. This was pledged to me after I won a card game with others." During the interrogation, the main criminal Zeng refused to plead guilty and insisted that he had no knowledge of the authenticity of the gold. He originally wanted to pawn it for cash. Redeem again. He claimed that he was also a victim, but the police lacked evidence for this, and the investigation of the case encountered bottlenecks.

professional counterpart! The police cleverly decoded the password and obtained key evidence

and decided on a way out. The senior police officer handling the case turned his attention to the two mobile phones confiscated from Zeng, intending to use this as a breakthrough. "I bought this mobile phone second-hand. I forgot the password. You have to find a way to open it yourself." When asking for the unlock password of one of the mobile phones, Zeng tried to hide it, which made the police officer even more alert.

Screenshot of the surveillance in the pawn shop

But Zeng never expected that the high-ranking police officer in front of him who was competing with him was a top student in information security in college.

How easy is it to crack a password? The senior police officer who was deep in thought suddenly had an idea and began to think about the password of the first mobile phone and the information obtained, and tried to crack it through calculation and permutation.Only an hour later and after 20 calculations, he finally cracked the phone password! He also obtained the transaction and chat records of Zeng's online purchase of "gold handicrafts from a certain company in Guangdong" from his mobile phone. This information is very critical to the investigation of the case.

In the face of the evidence, Zeng stopped making excuses and confessed to the facts of the crime. Subsequently, the police peeled off the cocoons, followed the clues, and conducted multiple surprise interrogations using Zeng and Li as breakthrough points. After half a year of investigation and evidence collection, a complete chain of evidence gradually emerged. In the end, the gang members truthfully explained the circumstances of their crimes in other provinces and cities.

Recently, with the cooperation of Jiangsu police, the last member, Li, was arrested in Nanjing. A few days ago, many suspects from the gang will be transferred to the People's Procuratorate of Hechuan District, Chongqing City, where severe legal punishment awaits them.

(Safe Chongqing Correspondent: Chen Fuwei Tang Longji)