Seized cigarettes Photo courtesy of the police
Fangchenggang, Zhongxin. com, December 12 (Zhai Liqiang, Zhang Nanjing) The police in Fangchenggang, Guangxi revealed on December 12 that the Fangchenggang Public Security Bureau had cracked a mega-inter-provincial tobacco smuggling illegal business case involving more than 100 million yuan. Among the eight suspects arrested, seven key suspects were arrested and one was released on bail pending trial. Recently, the case has been handed over to the procuratorate for review and prosecution.
According to the police, the clue of the case originated from a car license plate. The investigation lasted for one year, involving several provinces and cities, and six vehicles illegally transporting smuggled cigarettes were seized.
Criminal suspects and crime vehicles Photo courtesy of the police
According to the police, on November 30, 2018, Fangchenggang City Tobacco Monopoly Bureau pushed a photo clue of a car license plate to Fangchenggang City Public Security Bureau Port Branch, claiming that the license plate vehicle was extremely active at night and its behavior was very suspicious. After receiving the clue, the police discovered that a huge smuggling criminal network gang was hidden behind the license plate through continuous in-depth excavation of the clue.
The police investigation found that the gang mainly smuggled a large number of cigarettes without legal procedures purchased at low prices abroad into Fangchenggang City, and then arranged for special personnel to transport the cigarettes in vehicles to Yulin City, Guangxi for storage and packaging, and then arranged for vehicles to send batches of smuggled cigarettes to offline customers such as Tianjin, Nanjing and Guangdong for sale.
Criminal suspects and crime vehicles Photo courtesy of the police
On July 17, 2019, through a series of work, the ad hoc working group thought that the time was ripe to close the network and jointly launched a unified network closing operation with the Urban Tobacco Monopoly Bureau. Since July, with the cooperation of local police, the task force has arrested suspects Liang, Yan and Qi in Fangchenggang City, Cai, Zhong and Su in Yulin City, and Luo and Li in Guangdong Province. Six vehicles were seized at the scene and more than 8,700 cigarettes were seized, with a value exceeding one million yuan.
After investigation and evidence collection, the police investigating the case verified that the amount of illegal cigarettes operated by gangs headed by Cai and others and offline buyers in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province was more than 52 million yuan; The amount of illegal cigarettes with offline buyers in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province is more than 41 million yuan; The amount of illegal cigarettes with offline buyers in Tianjin is more than 15 million yuan; The amount of illegal cigarettes dealing with offline buyers in Nanjing is more than 300,000 yuan, and the total amount involved is more than 108 million yuan.
After the trial, eight suspects in the case truthfully confessed their illegal and criminal facts.
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