China News Agency, Guigang, June 24 (Yang Chen Fangyang) Guangxi Guigang City Public Security Bureau reported on the 24th that the police had cracked an illegal operation case a few days ago. The criminal gang used its own payment platform to dock overseas online gambling sites to provide illegal funds for settlement. Channel, the transaction value of the case exceeds 130 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
According to the police that handled the case, on March 4, 2020, the Guigang Economic Investigation Detachment and the Net Security Detachment found out that the clue was related to the bank account flow information, activity track, IP, etc. of the persons involved in the case based on a clue involving money laundering accounts. Illegal settlement, suspected of illegal operation, and then established as a "20.01" illegal operation case for investigation.
After investigation, since October 2019, Zhuang Mouqun (Fujian people) set up a company in Nanning, hired relevant personnel to build a "world-leaf" payment platform, and docked with overseas online gambling sites to provide illegal capital settlement channels for illegal criminal gangs.
After that, Zhuang Mouqun developed Deng Mou and others to build a "Qilima" running sub-platform. After receiving a transfer instruction from a criminal gang of an overseas online gambling website or a gambling website gambler recharge instruction, the running sub-platform transferred the order to collect a large number of personal Alipay QR codes. Of coders transfer money for criminal gangs or recharge gamblers to participate in gambling. In addition, Zhuang Mouqun and others also introduced multiple payment platforms such as "Bison" and "Baibao Pay" built by Jiao et al. to the "Qilima" running sub-platform to provide illegal settlement channels for criminal gangs of overseas online gambling sites.
According to the police, the above payment platform and running platform can obtain 0.2% of the transfer amount as a profit from the criminal gangs of overseas online gambling sites, and the code merchants can obtain 1.2-1.4% of the transfer amount as a profit. From October 2019 to May 2020, the total transaction value of the aforementioned sub-platform and payment platform reached 130 million 87 million yuan.
On May 8, 2020, the Public Security Bureau of Guigang City dispatched more than 200 police forces to arrest and arrest the suspects in the "20.01" illegal operation case. The cities involved were Chengdu, Sichuan, Nanning, and Guilin, and the site was under total control. 37 people, seized more than 230 bank cards involved in the case, several POS machines, mobile phones, computers, vehicles and other items. Among them, 14 suspects such as Zhuang Mouqun, Deng Mou and Jiao Mou have been apprehended by the Guigang People's Procuratorate.
At present, the police have successfully frozen 3,800 accounts on the fund investigation and control platform with a frozen amount of more than 50 million yuan, and frozen more than 200 bank card numbers used by the payment platform for transfers. The case is still under investigation. (Finish)