On July 10, 2020, Guangxi Beihai City Procuratorate approved Wang Mouwen and other 77 suspects for crimes of illegal business operations, crimes of aiding information network criminal activities, crimes of concealing and concealing proceeds of crime, and crimes of obstructing credit card management. Arrest; due to unclear facts and insufficient evidence, the arrest of 5 suspects including Chen XX was not approved according to law.
In March 2020, after the police of the Cybersecurity Detachment of the Beihai City Public Security Bureau discovered the criminal clues of the case during their work, the Beihai City Public Security Bureau established a "4·09" task force to solve the case. After more than two months of investigation , Gradually figured out the gang’s composition, activity trajectory, crime pattern, capital flow, etc.
In the early morning of June 1, under the unified coordination of the Ministry of Public Security and the command and deployment of the Public Security Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Guangxi Beihai Police teamed up with 12 provinces and 22 cities including Fujian, Sichuan, Anhui, Guangdong, and Shandong to carry out a cross-regional centralized network closing operation. Destroyed a very large cross-border criminal group that used illegal fourth-party payment platforms to circulate illegal funds such as gambling and pornography and evade supervision. Up to now, the Beihai police have arrested 90 criminal suspects, seized 770 bank cards, 1.52 million yuan in cash, frozen 2,400 bank accounts and third-party payment accounts, frozen funds of 594 million, and the amount of funds involved in the case exceeded 30 billion yuan. Shut down 18 running sub-platforms and fourth-party payment platforms.
According to the police, the funds laundered by the “running sub-platform” involved gambling, pornography and other illegal criminal proceeds. The criminal gang involved in the case is mostly spread across Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hunan, Fujian, Shaanxi, Guangdong and other places 12 There are 22 cities in the province, and the hierarchical personnel structure is clear. The main purpose is to attract members through running sub-platforms, forming a closed-loop path of capital flow of "funding masters"-"merchants"-"channels"-"code merchants" and "agents". The “funder” provides the source of funds involved in the case for issuing money laundering, the “merchant” accepts the funds provided by the “funder” and arranges for the “channel” to launder money, the “channel” looks for the “code merchant” to form a money laundering channel, and the “code merchant” purchases In the case of money laundering , the "agent" (member) uploads the payment QR code collected by the "code merchant" to the running sub-platform and completes the money laundering task, and uses the fourth-party payment platform for illegal gambling websites, etc. Merchants provide capital payment channels to earn high commissions and profits, and the average daily flow of money laundering on each payment platform is more than 10 million yuan. According to the police, the so-called “run sub-platform” is a fourth-party payment platform that integrates third-party payment platforms, cooperative banks, and other service providers to illegally provide payment and settlement services to the outside world. It is a current telecommunications fraud, online gambling, etc. The so-called "channels" for criminal gangs to steal and bleach illegal funds. With the full popularity of payment scanning codes, overseas gambling website platforms have also begun to support QR code recharge. When a gambler logs on to an overseas network and needs to recharge their gambling funds, the overseas gambling website will post the recharge information to the "run points platform", and the registered members of the platform will "grab orders" in a similar way to online car-hailing. After the member "grabs the order" successfully, the front end of the gambling website will display the corresponding payment QR code, use the fake shop of the gambling website to fake the order, transfer the domestic gambling funds to overseas gambling websites, and draw 1 from it. Commissions ranging from% to 4%.
Source: CCTV News Client
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