Chinanews.com, Hangzhou, October 22 (Wang Yifei, Gu Jiayi, Gu Jiayi, Xu Jieqiong) On the 22nd, Zhejiang Tobacco Monopoly Bureau announced that the province has uncovered a large illegal operation involving Beijing, Shanghai, Hebei, Shandong, Zhejiang and other provinces and cities. Heat not burn Cigarette network case.
At present, 10 suspects have been arrested and the amount involved exceeds 40 million yuan.
Heat-not-burn cigarettes are a new type of tobacco product. Like traditional cigarettes, they are all tobacco monopoly products.
Earlier this year, the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau of Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province received a report indicating that someone was illegally selling heat-not-burn cigarettes on multiple Internet platforms.
The bureau quickly cooperated with the public security organs to set up a task force, relying on the local tobacco-related crime research and judgment center, to conduct comprehensive research and judgment on the suspect’s capital flow, express logistics and trajectory information, and clarify the organizational structure of the criminal gang through three-dimensional analysis and screening of multidimensional data. Accurately locate crime dens.
The heat-not-burn cigarettes seized by the task force at the scene in Weihai, Shandong.
Photo courtesy of Zhoushan Tobacco Monopoly Bureau
After investigation, the most upstream "suppliers" of the criminal gang, Li from Shandong and Zhang from Beijing, traveled to Japan, South Korea and other places all the year round. They purchased large quantities of heat-not-burn cigarettes and shipped them back to China in the form of "purchasing" and "backpacks". Then through first-level "distributors" such as Liu in Beijing and Yu in Hebei, the goods are distributed to "distributors" such as Bai in Hebei, Yu in Shanghai, Hu in Zhejiang, and Jiang.
In recent years, the gang has gradually formed a rigorous multi-level distribution and multi-network sales crime network. The hierarchical structure is huge, the personnel span multiple provinces across the country, and the transaction links are complicated.
The task force traveled to many places and lasted 5 months. It went to Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Shanghai and Zhejiang to complete the arrest work. It also went to more than 20 provinces and cities such as Tianjin and Qinghai to investigate and collect evidence, realizing the distribution from the upstream source to the end. Full chain attack.
At present, the suspect involved in the case has been criminally detained by the police in accordance with the law.
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