On October 12, the case of Li Shuai and others involved in gang-related organized crime, which was supervised by the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and listed by the Provincial Public Security Department as one of the ten typical cases involving gangs and evil in the province, was heard by the Xiaoshan District People's Court of Hangzhou and made a first-instance verdict.
The court convicted of organizing and leading a mafia-type organization, intentional injury, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and gambling. The court sentenced to the first offender and defendant Li Shuai to 15 years in prison, confiscation of all personal property, and deprivation of political rights for 2 years.
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It is understood that the case involving the defendant Li Shuai and others was charged with organizing, leading, and participating in organized crime of a gangland nature. This is the first case of organized crime of a gangland nature that has been adjudicated in Hangzhou since the Party Central Committee and the State Council launched a special campaign to "sweep gangsters and eliminate evil".
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11 members of underworld gangs were sentenced
On October 12, a total of 20 people were prosecuted in this case The defendants were found guilty. Among the 11 defendants sentenced by the Xiaoshan court for "organizing, leading, and participating in a gangland organization," 10 were "post-90s" , many of whom had criminal records. The first offender, Li Shuai, was born in March 1994.
The court found after trial that in the second half of 2016, the defendant Li Shuai, together with others, held gatherings at KTV and other places in Guali Town, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou for a long time, and joined a WeChat group called "Zhongyi Tang" to communicate, contact and take care of each other.
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through online communication. After that, the defendant Li Shuai further recruited people and established a contact network headed by him and with the "Zhongyi Tang" WeChat group as the communication network to target the accused. The defendants Zhao Wei, Xie Jiashu, Lu Xing and others are the backbone of the gang, with the defendant Luo Bin and others as participants and a relatively stable underworld organization. The intention is to organize members to carry out violent illegal and criminal activities and establish the social status of the group organization in Guali Town, Xiaoshan District, in order to seek economic benefits.
▍Li Shuai and others gathered
In order to maintain the stability of his organization and strengthen its economic strength, the defendant Li Shuai used his own savings and other people’s money from the end of 2016 to November 2017. Financial support, long-term organization of party activities at many KTVs in Guali Town, Xiaoshan District, arranging accommodation, providing vehicles for organization members, and unified management of steel pipes, machetes and other crime tools; and obtaining economic benefits by gathering people to gamble, helping others fight, "support the scene", and forcibly taking other people's property at KTVs and other commercial venues.
▍The instrument used by Li Shuai and others to commit violence
From the second half of 2016 to November 2017, the defendant Li Shuai organized members to carry out mass gatherings in Xiaoshan District More than ten criminal activities such as fighting, gambling, intentional injury, and picking quarrels and provoking resulted in serious consequences such as two serious injuries of the second degree, two minor injuries of the first degree, three minor injuries of the second degree, and several minor injuries. also disseminated some video materials of the organization's fights, weapons, and gatherings through the Internet. The illegal and criminal activities carried out by this organization have had a negative impact on Guali Town, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, seriously disrupting the normal social life order and economic order in the local area.
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After the trial, the court held that the defendant Li Shuai, together with others, formed a relatively stable criminal organization with a large number of people, clear organizational leaders, backbones and participants, and organized to obtain economic benefits through illegal and criminal activities. The organization has carried out fourteen illegal and criminal acts, possessing the organizational, economic, violent and controlling characteristics of a gangster organization, and is recognized as a gangland organization in accordance with the law.
Based on the defendant’s crime facts, nature, circumstances and degree of social harm, the court made a judgment in accordance with the law.
Except Li Shuai, the other defendants were sentenced in the first instance to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 1 year and 2 months to 10 years, and were also fined or confiscated.
Multi-department coordination to promote
In December 2017, when Xiaoshan police were investigating and collecting evidence about a fight, they discovered that some of the people involved had participated in multiple fights.
As the investigation deepened, a gang of underworld organizations headed by Li Shuai and others gradually surfaced. After investigation, the gang was suspected of repeatedly committing illegal and criminal acts such as gathering people to gamble, provoking troubles, and intentional injury in Guali, Xiaoshan and other places, posing serious threats to the people in the jurisdiction.
Xiaoshan police quickly mobilized capable police forces to set up a task force. After more than a month of in-depth operations and analysis, in the early morning of January 9, 2018, the task force implemented unified centralized network closure in Zhejiang Wenzhou , Jinhua, Shaoxing, Hangzhou Dajiangdong, Xiaoshan Xintang, Guali, Nanyang and other places. After the case was closed, the task force went to Hunan, Guangxi, Jinhua and other places to arrest the fugitive .
▍Arrest scene
After Li Shuai and others were arrested, the district court prepared in advance and designated a capable judicial force to handle the case. Based on the requirements of the trial-centered criminal procedure system reform, it strictly grasped the evidence and legal aspects of Li Shuai's case, and determined in accordance with the law that Li Shuai and others had committed 14 criminal acts, Li Shuai and others were sentenced in accordance with Article 294 of the Criminal Law.
Especially in the judgment of this case, the district court paid attention to the criminal policy of combining severe punishment with leniency. For example, the organizer and leader Li Shuai was sentenced to 15 years in prison for several crimes, deprived of political rights for two years, and all personal property was confiscated. Lin Shijie, an ordinary participant, was sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in prison. In terms of sentencing, leaders, organizers, active participants, and ordinary participants were divided and treated differently, and good case handling results were achieved.
▍Li Shuai and others were escorted out of the court
Hangzhou Traffic 918 original manuscript
Reporter: Wang Xin/Comprehensive Xiaoshan Public Security