China News Service, Nanning, March 9th (Reporter Lin Hao) Nanning Customs reported on the 9th that the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Dongxing Customs had recently accused Yang of smuggling ordinary goods and articles, fraudulently obtaining export tax rebates, and money laundering. 13 criminal suspects including Mr. Zhou and Mr. Zhou were transferred to Fangchenggang City People’s Procuratorate for review and prosecution.

This case is a case of the first-level listing supervision of the Anti-smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of Customs.

The picture is taken by Long Nenghao at the scene of the arrest

  On August 18, 2020, under the unified command of the Anti-smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of Customs and the Economic Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the Nanning Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau, together with public security agencies in Nanning, Guangxi, and Suizhou, Hubei, carried out operations in Guangxi, Hubei, Henan, Yunnan and other places. The centralized network collection operation successfully cracked large cases of smuggling, tax fraud, and money laundering. A total of 68 criminal suspects were arrested. Among them, the anti-smuggling department arrested 13 criminal suspects including Yang XX and Zhou XX, and found suspected smuggling and money laundering at the scene. A batch of "props" agricultural products and other items involved in fraudulently obtaining export tax rebates.

  After investigation by the anti-smuggling department, it was found that the criminal gang headed by Yang Moumou, in order to seek illegal benefits, conspired with domestic illegal enterprises and signed false foreign trade export contracts to declare mushrooms, fungus, tea and other agricultural and sideline products as props to Vietnam. , Hong Kong, China, and then "return" to the country through false reports on the nature of the trade between border residents or smuggling into the country through non-customs areas, evading import tariffs and creating false foreign exchange settlements to defraud national export tax rebates.

The picture shows the suspect's identification of the goods involved in the case, photo by Gan Liya

  From 2017 to the incident, the gang represented illegal companies to export 1,026 batches of agricultural and sideline products, of which 624 batches were "returned" to the country in different ways. The suspected smuggling crime was worth 1.433 billion yuan, and the suspected export tax rebate crime was 1.538 billion yuan. .

It was also found that the criminal suspect Zhou Moumou knew that Yang Moumou gang was involved in illegal crimes, but still provided personal bank accounts to assist in the transfer of "money for goods" at home and abroad. This was suspected of constituting a crime of money laundering, with a case value of 60 million yuan.

  Nanning Customs stated that in 2021, the Customs will continue to fight against the smuggling of "foreign garbage", smuggling of endangered species such as ivory and their products, and smuggling of agricultural products, so as to effectively safeguard the country's economic security.

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