At 10:00 on June 9, under the unified command of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference Office of the State Council’s Work on Combating New Types of Illegal and Criminal Telecommunications Networks, the nationwide "Card Broken" operation carried out the fifth round of centralized network collection. Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, etc. 23 Public security organs in various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities simultaneously carried out network collection operations, and implemented centralized arrests of illegal and criminal gangs that used virtual currencies to provide transfer and money laundering services for telecommunications network fraud activities.

As of 15:00 of the same day, more than 170 criminal gangs had been destroyed, more than 1,100 suspects had been arrested, and the net-closing operation had achieved initial results.

  Up to now, the "broken card" operation has eliminated 15,000 criminal gangs that illegally set up and sold "two cards", arrested 311,000 suspects of "two cards" violations, and controlled 18,000 illegal industry outlets and institutions.

(Reporter Shan Lu)

Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】