China News Service, Wenzhou, June 29 (Apprentice reporter Zhou Yuelei correspondent Li Yang Sunday Min) "Scratch orders, easily get high commissions" "Move your fingers, 2,000 yuan a day"...... Nowadays, some social networking sites often appear some The tempting "run points" part-time job advertisements, but behind it may involve black industries such as gambling, fraud, pornography and other illegal criminal activities. The reporter was informed on the 29th that the Zhejiang police had successfully smashed a "network run point" money laundering gang a few days ago, arrested 17 criminal suspects, and initially found out that the amount involved was over 100 million yuan.

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  Up to now, 15 gang members, including the suspect Zhou, have been taken criminally by public security organs for allegedly opening casinos. Ma and Wang have also been detained for criminal infringement of citizens’ information. Related cases are going further. Survey.

  Recently, the Public Security Bureau of Ruian City, Zhejiang Province has received reports of clues that multiple accounts on an online payment platform are abnormal. Most of these accounts have just been registered shortly, and there are cases of receiving large amounts of remittances within a short period of time. After investigation, the police found that behind these accounts was a money laundering criminal gang headed by the suspect Zhou Mou, and these accounts were all money laundering tools they used to "run points" to collect money.

  In order to cut off the money-laundering chain as soon as possible, the Public Security Bureau of Ruian City quickly deployed the elite forces of the Internet police, police station and other units to set up a task force to launch the "chain breaking" operation. During the investigation, the police of the ad hoc group found that from April 2019, Zhou had posted a recruitment notice on the major social platforms to transfer funds to earn commissions to recruit "running points" recipients.

  The recruited "run points" personnel will first register on a payment platform called "Tian Tian Shang Shang" and pay a "margin" of several thousand yuan or tens of thousands of yuan. Then, the payment platform will randomly publish the collection task to them. After the "run points" personnel complete the collection, the platform will deduct the corresponding amount from their "margin" and pay a commission of 1% to 1.4%.

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  "Behind the "Everyday Upwards" payment platform are some overseas gambling sites. The "run points" staff actually help these sites to collect gambling money from gambling players, and the gambling sites only use the payment platform for transactions, not direct transactions with gamblers. In order to achieve the purpose of money laundering and evasion of crackdowns." The police handling the case found that huge amounts of gambling money were quietly laundered every day through "run points", and the payment platform also obtained huge commissions by "run points" for gambling sites.

  At the same time, the platform also provides multi-level “agents”. As an “agent”, Zhou Mou can obtain commissions from his own “running points”, and can withdraw an additional 1% of the turnover amount from the recruited “running points”.

  After grasping the relevant evidence, the ad hoc group launched a net collection operation, arrested 3 criminal suspects including Zhou Mou in Ruian, Longgang, Wenzhou, detained more than 60 mobile phones, more than 300 black mobile phones, more than 50 bank cards, and computers. 8 sets, the preliminary investigation revealed that the amount of money involved in the case exceeded 20 million yuan, and the criminal suspects made more than 200,000 yuan.

  At the same time, the task force successively arrested members of 11 gangs such as Zhou Moulin in Cangnan, Longgang, Wenzhou, and other places, and initially found out that the gang involved in the case had a turnover of more than 100 million yuan.

  Soon after, the criminal suspects who sold personal information of citizens to the gang Ma Mou and Wang Mou were arrested in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province and Tianmen City, Hubei Province, and the "Tian Tian Shang Shang" payment platform was also destroyed by the Hangzhou police in one fell swoop. (Finish)