Anti-money laundering precision "breaks money and cut blood" helps eradicate the economic foundation of evil forces
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 21st, title: Anti-money laundering precision "breaks money and blood" helps eradicate the economic foundation of evil forces
Xinhua News Agency reporter
Gang-related activities are often intertwined with money laundering activities.
Sweeping the underworld and evil requires completely cutting off the economic sources of the underworld forces and resolutely "breaking money and blood."
In recent years, the financial system has given full play to the key role of anti-money laundering in the special fight against gangsters, cooperated with relevant departments to effectively deter gangsters, eradicate the economic foundation of gangs, and maintain normal financial order.
Strengthen anti-money laundering monitoring to make "black money" invisible
Grabbing ill-gotten wealth is one of the main purposes of organized crimes of the underworld nature, and it is also a tool for its success.
"The'yin and yang contract' of ants moving the funds into zero and false transactions... Various criminal methods involving money laundering are constantly being staged, causing a pool of financial spring water to become a'undercurrent'." People's Bank of China Nanchang Center Branch Zhang Ruihuai said.
Destroying the economic foundation of the underworld forces requires a quick understanding of the flow of funds involved in the case and efficient positioning of the direction of investigation. The financial system has a special weapon-anti-money laundering monitoring.
In June last year, the People's Court of Jianhua District, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province publicly pronounced the first instance of the defendant Yu XX and others in organizing, leading, and participating in the underworld organization, and severely cracked down on the underworld forces in accordance with the law.
The tracking and positioning of anti-money laundering are indispensable behind this case.
According to a relevant person from the People's Bank of China, in June 2018, a bank under the jurisdiction of Beijing reported to the Anti-Money Laundering Department of the Central Bank's Operation Management Department that it found suspicious account fund transactions involving frequent short-term investments, intentional maintenance of fund liquidity, and abnormal cash withdrawals.
Combining the negative information on criminal activities inquired on the Internet, after research and judgment, it was concluded that the account fund holder was suspected of deliberately cutting off the capital chain, concealing or concealing funds of the nature of the underworld, so he promptly transferred clues to the investigation agency.
The investigation found that the account was the account of the family member of the principal criminal of Yu XX in Heilongjiang Province.
It can be seen that the use of the anti-money laundering fund monitoring function and the in-depth analysis of the characteristics of the criminal and criminal fund transaction patterns combined with relevant information can deeply dig into and thoroughly investigate the clues of the criminals involved in the criminal and criminal money laundering, making "black money" and "dirty money" invisible. Provided a powerful boost to the successful cracking of criminal and criminal cases.
The reporter learned that the People’s Bank of China has transferred nearly 360 clues to investigative agencies in the special campaign against gangs and crimes in the past three years, assisted investigative agencies in investigating more than 1,000 gang-related crimes, and assisted investigative agencies in uncovering crimes. There were more than 310 criminal cases involving crime.
Keeping a close eye on key areas to "crack illegal wealth" to prevent and resolve financial risks
In some industries, crime-related crimes are prominent and require targeted crackdowns.
"Some criminal organizations under the guise of'private lending' trick victims into signing an inflated'yin and yang' loan contract, committing'routine loan' crimes through various means such as false litigation, and illegally amassing huge amounts of assets..." The People's Bank of China The Guangzhou branch introduced the outstanding problems they found in the special struggle.
On December 24, 2020, the Guangdong Provincial Higher People's Court made a final ruling on the evil case involving Zhang XX and other 11 people in the "routine loan" case.
In this case, Zhang XX and others obtained huge amounts of illegal proceeds by collecting "cut-off interest", resorting to "routine loans" such as litigation and the use of soft violence.
Due to the large number of people involved in the case and the involvement of multiple financial institutions, the Huizhou City Center Branch of the People’s Bank of China focused on the analysis of the organizational structure and capital operation of the criminal gang, and quickly straightened out the upstream and downstream funds of the major suspects involved in the case. The transaction context provides strong support for the public security organs to quickly detect cases.
Since the launch of the special campaign to combat gangsters and evil, many financial institutions have carried out risk investigations on "routine loans".
In Anhui Province alone, more than 100 suspicious customers have been discovered and more than 30 clues have been transferred, involving an amount of about 4 billion yuan.
According to the staff of the Hefei Central Branch of the People’s Bank of China, since the launch of the special rectification of the financial lending industry, the Central Branch of Hefei has imposed penalties on the buying and selling of bank cards or accounts, intensified supervision and inspection in the field of payment and anti-money laundering, and effectively maintained the order of the financial market , Consolidated the defense line of risk prevention and control in the financial sector.
Give full play to the advantages of investigative functions to promote the cracking of criminal cases involving money laundering
Money laundering activities involving gangs have become increasingly diversified and their methods have become more concealed, causing difficulties for investigative agencies to investigate and recover stolen money.
To this end, the People's Bank of China has played the role of intelligence support and evidence support for anti-money laundering investigations, digging into clues involving criminal money laundering, and promoting the filing and solving of criminal cases involving criminal money laundering.
Statistics from the People's Bank of China show that in 2020, my country has been sentenced to nearly 60 crimes involving money laundering.
In the "Money Laundering Case of Lin in Fujian Province", criminals used cash and checks to transfer funds.
In order to clarify the financial context and dig deeper into the evidence of money laundering crimes, the Fuzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China comprehensively sorted out the capital transactions of the main criminals in the main criminal network of criminals, investigated the source of funds, whereabouts, and operation methods, and finally assisted the public security organs to find important evidence .
"The close integration of the criminalization of money laundering sentence with the special fight against criminals can strengthen the crackdown on criminals, deter money launderers, and reduce criminals' money laundering accomplices." said Wang Junbo, deputy director of the Anti-Money Laundering Division of the People's Bank of China Jinan Branch Since the special campaign to combat gangsters and evil, the Jinan branch has promoted a total of 8 cases involving criminal money laundering to be successfully sentenced.
"Anti-money laundering is an important means to combat crimes by underworld forces. We must tighten the fence of the system and safeguard the interests of the people." Zhang Ruihuai said that anti-money laundering work not only helps to "break money" against underworld forces, but also build a modern financial system. The important content of this is an important guarantee for maintaining economic and social security and stability.
(Reporters Wu Yu, Yao Ziyun, Ji Ning, Meng Yingru, Chen Nuo, Qin Hong, Wang Yang)