A bulk cargo ship collided with a fishing boat.
When the staff chased the bulk cargo ship, they found that
the ship had no containers.
had no ship certificate and no crew certificate.
except for 5 people who claimed to be crew members.
was empty.
was like a "ghost"
...
"Call, call, our ship was hit by a bulk carrier. Not only did the ship not stop, it ran away."
"Please indicate your location."
On January 22 this year, Qingdao City, Shandong Province Intermediate The court held a public hearing on the case of Zhao and others smuggling goods and items prohibited from import and export by the country. Qingdao Municipal Procuratorate prosecutor Li Xi and assistant prosecutor Liu Yihao appeared in court to support the prosecution. On February 29, in the first instance, the court sentenced defendants Zhao, Liu, Zhao'er, Guo, and Pan to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from six to two years for the crime of smuggling goods prohibited from import and export by the state. fine; Luo was sentenced to two years in prison with three years of probation, Dong was sentenced to one year in prison with two years of probation, and Zhao San was sentenced to one year in prison with one year of probation, and each was fined 10,000 yuan; for concealing, The defendant Chen Moubei was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, and fined for concealing criminal proceeds. Defendants Zhao and Liu appealed against the decision. Recently, the Shandong Provincial Higher Court made a final ruling, rejecting the appeal and upholding the original judgment.
Cargo ship escaped after a hit and run
At about 12:35 on March 14, 2022, a boat from the Xiamen Coast Guard Station received an alarm that a bulk cargo ship had collided with a fishing boat, so it made emergency preparations to pursue the collision. Freighter ship.
At about 15:45 that day, the Xiamen Coast Guard searched and found the target ship, and then boarded for inspection. found that the ship had no containers, no ship certificate, and no crew certificate. It was empty except for 5 people who claimed to be crew members. Like a "ghost".
Faced with this situation, Xiamen Coast Guard requested instructions from Fujian Coast Guard to escort the ship to Xiamen Port. At this moment, the Xiamen Coast Guard received a business information letter from the Qingdao Coast Guard, calling the cargo ship "Mingcheng 168" and suspected of smuggling in Qingdao, and requested assistance in apprehending the ship involved. On March 15, 2022, Qingdao Coast Guard sent personnel to Xiamen to escort the ship and crew involved back to Qingdao.
It turns out that is a criminal gang headed by Zhao and others. They have been posing as domestic cargo owners in Nanning, Guangxi and other places all year round to engage in criminal activities of smuggling frozen goods. This hit-and-run "Mingcheng 168" is their tool for committing crimes. .
In September 2021, Zhao was introduced to Liu and Zhao Er. Zhao said, "I have a batch of legal goods and I want to find a dock to unload them." Liu and Zhao Er said they could help contact them. one time. In November 2021, Zhao and Liu purchased the bulk carrier "Jiaying 6" under the introduction of Guo Mousong. At the same time, Guo Mousong recruited Pan Moufu and other five crew members, and Liu also arranged for Luo Mou to Become a steward on a ship. In early January 2022, under the plan of Zhao, Liu and others, Liu, Guo, Luo and five crew members arrived in Guangxi first, installed refrigeration equipment on "Jiaying 6", and put the The ship was renamed "Mingcheng 168".
After the incident in Qingdao, he fled south to Xiamen
After the transformation, Luo and 5 crew members sailed from Fangcheng Port in Guangxi to Haiphong City in Vietnam. They loaded 12 containers of frozen products and about 400 packages with a total weight of about 328 tons, all the way to Qingdao Later, Zhao also recruited Dong Moubang to drive a crane on the ship and be responsible for unloading the cargo.
On February 16, 2022, "Mingcheng 168" had just arrived off the coast of Qingdao. Zhao Er contacted Hou Moujie (handled separately) in advance to organize fishing boats to transfer frozen goods. On March 7, during a barge, the Qingdao Coast Guard seized the barge fishing boat on site, and several fishing boat captains were immediately arrested (handled in a separate case). Hou Moujie felt something was wrong and came to inquire about the situation, and was immediately captured. The crew of the "Mingcheng 168" heard the news and fled. After identification, the seized frozen products totaled 44.9 tons, all of which were prohibited from import by the state.
On the evening of March 8 of the same year, "Mingcheng 168" arrived at the sea at the junction of Lianyungang City and Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, transferred the remaining frozen goods on the ship to an inland river terminal, and then continued to flee south, finally ending up in the waters of Xiamen, Fujian Province Collision with fishing boat.
The final goods transferred were transported by Zhao to Zhengzhou City by train, and then transported to Wuhan for distribution. Jia Mouqiang is one of the owners of these smuggled frozen goods. Jia Mouqiang and Jia Moubin jointly purchased more than 50 tons of smuggled frozen donkey meat. Among them, Jia Moubin sold a total of more than 13 tons of smuggled frozen donkey meat to Shandong, Henan and other places, making a profit of 520,000 yuan. After the case, in order to prevent the frozen products stored in the aquatic cold storage in Zhengzhou from being discovered, Jia Mouqiang instructed Jia Moubin to transfer the remaining 129 boxes of frozen products to Chen Moubei's cold storage for storage, and instructed Chen Moubei to store them. Bei replaced the frozen goods with outer packaging with Chinese logos.
A chain of frozen goods smuggling was established
After capturing Hou Moujie, the Qingdao Coast Guard immediately reported the case to the China Coast Guard and pursued "Mingcheng 168" online. At the same time, the Qingdao Municipal Procuratorate, with the help of the Investigation Supervision and Cooperation Office jointly established with the Qingdao Coast Guard Bureau, intervened in advance according to the law and guided the Qingdao Coast Guard Bureau to investigate and collect evidence on the case.
The chain of evidence in traditional cases of smuggling frozen goods generally only involves the transfer link or unloading link from sea to port. In this case, under the guidance of the prosecutor's office, the Qingdao Coast Guard found the upstream organizer of the purchase of the ship. We also found downstream cargo owners and the flow of frozen products in the country. At the same time, clues about the sales of frozen products in Zhengzhou and other places have also been handed over to relevant local departments in order to further crack down on the illegal sales chain of frozen products and limit the circulation scope of frozen products in the country to the greatest extent.
During the review and prosecution stage, the prosecutor of the Qingdao Municipal Procuratorate on the one hand guided the Qingdao Coast Guard Bureau to promptly supplement the criminal evidence of Zhao San, Dong Moubang, and Chen Mobei; on the other hand, they strictly observed the boundaries between crime and non-crime. According to the evidence in the case, the behavior of the four hired crew members except Pan Moufu during the entire criminal activity was transactional. Subjectively, they did not know that they were participating in a group that smuggled frozen goods. According to the principle of consistency between subject and object in the Criminal Law, they did not It constitutes a crime and it is recommended that the transfer be withdrawn for review and prosecution. Coast Guard agreed with the court’s opinion and took the initiative to withdraw the transfer, review and prosecution of the above-mentioned criminal suspect. After trial, the Qingdao Intermediate Court made the above judgment.
"Due to differences in eating habits, frozen products such as pig's trotters and beef offal are rarely popular abroad, and the cost is almost zero. However, the demand in the domestic market is huge, and smuggling can be said to be costless and profitable." Li Xi told reporters, "On the one hand, such smuggled frozen goods often fail to pass inspection and quarantine and are very likely to carry pathogenic microorganisms. On the other hand, the smuggling ship in this case is a bulk cargo ship, and cold chain storage conditions are difficult to guarantee. It is difficult to eat such smuggled goods." Smuggling frozen goods will seriously endanger people’s health.”
(Source: Procuratorate Daily·Rule of Law News Edition Author: Guo Shuhe, Zhang Fuhao Comics: Yao Wen)
