China News Service, Jinhua, September 5 (Xi Jinyan and Lu Zhuozhuo) The reporter was informed on the 5th that the police in Yongkang, Zhejiang recently transferred a criminal gang that used a technology company as a guise but actually engaged in online violent claims to be prosecuted.

The gang pretends to be a criminal force, intimidates and threatens through information network methods such as phone calls, text messages, WeChat, etc., and specifically provides debt collection services for some online loan companies in order to seek illegal benefits.

From the establishment of the company in May 2019 to the arrest by the police, there have been thousands of victims, involving more than 50 million yuan.

　　At the end of 2019, Mr. Bao hesitated all day and night, and chose to walk into the Gushan Police Station of Yongkang Public Security Bureau.

This is only because of a call he received the day before, and also because of a loan two years ago.

　　In 2017, due to difficulties in fund turnover, Mr. Bao borrowed 40,000 yuan from a company through the Internet in desperation, and signed an inflated loan contract under the deceit of the company. The contract amount was 40,000 yuan, and he agreed to repay 2063 yuan every month. 36 months.

　　After the contract was signed, Mr. Bao was deducted more than several thousand yuan from the company for payment of handling fees and service fees, and he actually got more than 30,000 yuan.

Calculated, 36 months, the interest is double the principal!

After more than 20 months of repayment, Mr. Bao thought that he had already repaid more than 40,000 yuan, and by October 2019 there was no repayment.

　　As a result, on December 26, 2019, Mr. Bao received a call from a stranger asking him what to do with a loan of 40,000 yuan. He claimed that he was from a debt collection company and asked him to prepare the money. He will come to take it in the near future, otherwise he will find Mr. Bao Family troubles.

Soon, Mr. Bao received another text message saying, "Brothers have just arrived in Jinhua, if you don't see the money, you will do it at your own risk!"

　　After Mr. Bao added the WeChat attached to the text message, he received a video and a voice message asking him to prepare money as soon as possible.

In the video, several people punched and kicked a man and beat him to the ground.

After investigation by the police, the video was an online video.

Considering the safety of his family, Mr. Bao chose to call the police.

　　After the police checked, they decided to open a case for investigation. After nearly half a month of careful investigation, they initially grasped the facts of the gang's crime, its personnel structure, and the trajectory of activities, and found out that the gang's den was located in an office building in Wuhan, Hubei.

At the same time, it was discovered that the gang was preparing for a holiday on the twenty-sixth lunar month (January 20, 2020). The Yongkang police decided to immediately set up a task force. The network security, criminal investigation and other departments will cooperate with the Gushan police station and the Xicheng police station, and more than 30 police officers will be assigned to drive. Went to Wuhan for arrest.

　　From January 17 to 18, arresting police arrived in Wuhan one after another.

After investigating the criminal dens and drawing up the arrest plan, on January 19, Yongkang police, with the cooperation of the local police, successfully arrested all 23 suspects, frozen funds of 50 million yuan, and seized more than 60 mobile phones. Only, 23 computers.

　　According to investigations, in April 2019, a criminal gang headed by the criminal suspects Zhang and Zhou established a technology company in Hubei, which specializes in undertaking the collection business of some routine loan companies to conduct illegal collections in order to obtain high illegal benefits.

The company's collection officers used text messages and WeChat to pretend to be evil forces, threatening and intimidating victims and their families, and demanding inflated debts.

Thousands of victims were victims, mostly in Zhejiang, Shandong, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and cities.

　　At present, 23 suspects have been transferred for prosecution on suspicion of creating disturbances.

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