China News Service, Zhengzhou, September 15 (Liu Peng and Wang Xia) The abnormal death of a female cashier in a company led to a cross-border online gambling group.
Zhengzhou police reported on the 15th that after more than half a year of investigation and tracking by the local police, 77 suspects have been arrested in this cross-border online gambling criminal gang, and the rest of the people involved are under arrest.
Female cashier committed suicide by jumping off the building to reveal the tip of the iceberg of online gambling
At about 11:14 on December 30, 2019, the Dongfeng Road Branch of the Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau received an order from the 110 Command Center, stating that a woman had jumped off a building in a community in its jurisdiction.
After receiving the report, the police rushed to the scene. After 120 medical staff checked and confirmed, the woman who jumped off the building had no vital signs.
After investigation, the deceased Sha XX was the cashier of a building materials and household limited company.
During the further investigation of Sha Moumou, the police discovered that he had participated in a large number of online gambling activities and had a debt of 3.9 million yuan.
This discovery caught the attention of the police!
"This is not just a suicide incident. It is very likely that an online gambling criminal gang is behind it." According to the police, in view of the preliminary investigation and the nature of the case, the police quickly mobilized elite police from multiple departments such as criminal investigation and network security to establish "2019.12. 31" task force, a comprehensive investigation of this online gambling criminal group.
Follow the line, cross-border online gambling criminal groups emerge
The task force checked Sha Moumou's QQ account and WeChat account in line, and found that he had participated in a large number of online gambling on online platforms such as Jingcai.com and Wuwu.
"Through combing through relevant information, we found that Chen Moumou and Su Moumou, both of Anxi, Fujian, are very suspicious. They are active overseas and use online platforms to encourage others to participate in gambling activities." The investigator said, along with With further investigation, the police discovered a certain cross-border gambling group hidden behind Jingcai.com.
The group mainly uses overseas servers to organize personnel to participate in online gambling activities on the online platform.
Through the analysis and comparison of various information, the participating police gradually discovered and delineated a large number of people involved in the case.
After sorting out, 548 persons involved in the case were locked.
After 22 days of continuous work, the police of the task force found 34 persons involved in the case who had returned to the country one by one, and all interrogated and identified them. They produced more than 800 interrogation and identification transcripts, which basically confirmed the structure and personnel of the criminal gang. composition.
Dig deep for clues and find out the criminal gang’s means of committing crimes
At the same time that the task force was targeting the members of the criminal gang, a group of policemen was investigating the flow of funds of Sha.
"Through tracking, we found that the gang has a dedicated fund link, mainly through public accounts and mobile banking network transfers, the funds involved in the case are transferred through multiple, multi-level transfers, and debits, and finally the funds involved in the case are transferred." At present, inquiries and freezes have been conducted on Sha's 3.9 million account involved in the case, and more than 2,190 accounts involved have been frozen at the same time, including 7 first-level accounts, 9 second-level accounts, 169 third-level accounts, and a total of four-level accounts. More than 2,000, more than 50 million yuan of posted funds, more than 800,000 yuan of funds involved in the case were frozen, and 29 properties were sealed.
After questioning the persons involved, the police found that the cross-border gambling group mainly used high returns to attract people to participate in online gambling in order to obtain huge illegal income.
Their modus operandi is usually to use false recruitment and high income to attract people to be friends on QQ or WeChat, to induce them to participate in gambling, or to plant pop-up advertisements in mobile browsers, pornographic websites, and add links. Gradually induce people to participate in gambling.
After entering the platform, the gambling personnel, driven by the mentality of being small and big, used Alipay and WeChat to scan the QR code, bank transfer to the designated account and other methods to participate in online gambling.
The customer service staff in the gambling group are responsible for adding gambling personnel who have become platform members as QQ and WeChat friends, encouraging recharge to participate in gambling, teaching the so-called gambling project gameplay and betting skills, and paying close attention to their participation in gambling.
16 arrest teams focused on catching the net
After a large number of careful investigations, the task force basically grasped the structure and personnel of the criminal gang, and decided to deploy a concentrated arrest operation.
On May 4 this year, the Zhengzhou police held a special arrest work deployment meeting. According to the geographical and detailed division of labor, three theaters were set up, with more than 100 participating police forces, divided into 16 action teams, and went to Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu. , Guizhou, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Chongqing and other 16 provinces and cities carried out arrests.
As of May 15th, a total of 77 gang members have been arrested, and the organizers Huang Moumou and Chen Moumou from Anxi, Fujian were also arrested.
At present, the Zhengzhou police are urging the remaining suspects involved in the case to surrender. For those who refuse to surrender, the police will organize centralized arrests according to the timing.
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