Gangs murdered and buried corpses for 17 years, police chased 60,000 miles
The No. 1 Case in Qinghai's "Riyue Mountain Burial Case"
Our reporter Wu Gang and Lan Xiang
The triad organization led by Zhang Chenghu and Ma has profited from gold mining in the gold field, suppressed and squeezed out competitors, and grabbed economic benefits.
After more than 20 years of "whitewashing", it has gradually transformed and developed into a gang-related criminal group that "provides black businesses" and "protects business blacks".
On October 30, Qinghai Province's "first major case of eradicating gangs" was publicly pronounced.
This "August 07" crime-related project represented by the "Riyueshan Corpse Burial Case" is currently the largest criminal case involving the largest number of people in Qinghai, the longest time span, and the greatest social harm. case.
Since the establishment of the "August 07" task force in August 2018, the National Anti-criminal Office, the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and the Ministry of Public Security have attached great importance to more than 300 capable police officers from the provincial public security department’s party committee. Kan, set off a wave of powerful offensive after another.
More than 3 months of carpet search
On October 7, 2019, the Riyue Mountain at an altitude of 3,600 meters was shrouded in heavy fog.
On the same day, the police from the task force recovered a human remains by the side slope 33 kilometers east to west of National Highway 109.
The DNA identification result of the Criminal Science and Technology Research and Management Center of Qinghai Public Security Department confirmed that the remains were the victim Ma Mouzhen.
In March 2002, the criminal suspects Ma Haishan, Wang Yanxiong and others were premeditated to forcibly take the victim Ma Mouzhen into a black thorn forest near the Huangzhong District of Xining City for beating, and demanded a ransom of 1.25 million yuan from their business partners. Some Zhen took the opportunity to escape.
One month later, Ma Cheng, the main criminal suspect of the "08.07" gang, and 6 people including Ma Haishan, Wang Yanxiong, and Ma Dengyue again kidnapped Ma Mouzhen and carried him to the side of a canal in Dayuan, Huangzhong District After being dragged off the car, he was beaten to death.
The twilight closed, and the pickup truck carrying the victim's body passed Laji Mountain and stopped near the Riyue Mountain Pass.
At one o'clock in the morning, the construction vehicles on the first-grade highway in the distance were working overtime to dump the soil. The suspect lifted the victim's body, buried it under the roadbed and fled the scene.
In April 2019, when investigating the "August 07" crime-related project, the task force discovered clues that the victim Ma Mouzhen was kidnapped and killed, and then investigated the murder case and the crime-related crime case together.
"The burial took place on the night 18 years ago. The suspect has a vague memory of the location of the burial. Coupled with the construction and refurbishment of the first-grade highway in Qinghai in 18 years, the suspects identified different locations for the burial. It is very unfavorable for us to find the dead body." said the person in charge of the "August 07" task force "Riyueshan Burial Case".
"The police of our task force went back and forth to Riyue Mountain nearly a hundred times. They passed the coordination of various departments, the identification of the smell of police dogs, the comparison of satellite and construction drawings, and interviews with the person in charge of the project subcontracting at that time and a number of construction personnel to gradually narrow the scope, and finally passed the site inspection. The corpse was found, which opened a breakthrough in the project investigation and further obtained the key evidence for the investigation of the case." The person in charge said.
Under the vast Sun and Moon Mountains, across more than 40 kilometers of suspected corpse burial area, nearly 200 policemen spent more than 3 months searching in a carpet-like search. At the moment when the remains were recovered, all the policemen present were silent.
"Sweeping evil and helping justice", the eight bronzing characters were printed on the banner sent by the family of the victim Ma Mouzhen.
A policeman from the task force saw the pennant and couldn't hold back his tears. "Our search process is indeed difficult, but seeing these words, I feel that everything is worth it!"
Justice is not absent, evil has its rewards.
On March 11, 2001, the victim Ma Moude and his wife did not expect that they would encounter accidents at their doorstep.
That night, when the two went upstairs and went home as before, the suspect Yang Sheng, who was squatting on the platform on the second floor, hired a square shovel and knocked Ma Moude’s wife to the ground. Ma Moude was squatting down when he ran downstairs. Ma Cheng and Yang Shenglu, who caught up with him, surrounded him, chopped 21 times, and his hands and feet tendons were chopped off... One year later, Ma Moude died of liver disease.
According to the person in charge of the "08.07" task force, in 2001, Zhang Chenghu, the main suspect of the criminal organization, collected gold in Qiuzhi Township, Qumalai County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. He believed that the victim, Ma Moude, was also the victim of the local gold mining. His own interests were threatened, so he ordered Ma Fulu to arrange for Ma Cheng and Yang Shenglu to beat him.
"It is the hope of our people to let my father's tragedy be redressed, and to make the eradication of crimes and evils come true," the victim Ma Moude said in tears.
On October 30, the Intermediate People’s Court of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province charged the defendants Zhang Chenghu, Ma Cheng and others with the crimes of organizing, leading, and participating in underworld organizations, crimes of intentional homicide, crimes of intentional injury, crimes of opening a casino, crimes of quarreling and provoking troubles. For the remaining counts, the first instance was publicly sentenced, and several crimes were sentenced to life imprisonment for Zhang Chenghu and death for Ma Cheng, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property.
The other 37 members of the case also received sentences ranging from 2 to 23 years in prison.
No matter how long the time span or how difficult it is to handle the case, the truth must be revealed-this is the people's ardent expectation of fairness and justice, the firm belief of the task force personnel to "hold down the green hills and not relax", and it is to eliminate illicit affairs. The oath to fight against evil.
Finish the final capture in the dark cave of the kitchen
On October 16, 2020, the task force captured the fugitive Ma Haiyun in Huangzhong District, Xining City.
So far, all members of the Qinghai "August 07" project organization have arrived.
At 7:28 on the 16th, the police from the escape group of the "08.07" case searched the kitchen of Ma Haiyun's relatives and noticed something unusual.
"There is no one in the house for a long time, and when I touch the kang's head, there is surplus temperature." Opposite the kang's head, a table piled with sundries caught the attention of the police.
Pull open the fence and remove the glove box, revealing a dark hole where only one person can lie down.
"Ma Haiyun was shrinking in a cave at the time." The police officer told reporters, "That cave is where he has been hiding for many days. He usually hides in the house and gets in whenever there is wind and grass at the door."
It lasted more than a year and the hunting trip totaled more than 30,000 kilometers, and the footprints were as far as Sanya, Hainan, crossing mountains during the day, and watching the suspicious office late at night... The task force finally arrested the last gang member.
The person in charge of the project's escape team lamented that "the same village and the same ethnic group" is a major feature of the gang. "There are many people involved in the case,'relatives set up relatives,' sheltering each other, making it even more difficult to hunt down."
The police of the task force once braved heavy snow and squatted in front of the suspect's house for nearly 20 hours.
"We have to wait after the lights are turned off. The next day will not be light and continue to return to work for investigation. These are just some small details of the pursuit of escape." The police of the task force said.
During the COVID-19 pandemic this year, it was the stage of the project.
The police of the task force took the risk of being infected to overcome the inconvenience caused by the epidemic and rushed to Jingzhou, Hubei to arrest the main criminal suspect Ma Chengbiao.
Although the fugitive was arrested, it was a protracted "ice melting" battle to make him plead guilty.
According to members of the ad hoc interrogation team, most of the criminal suspects in this case are former personnel who have been cracked down and dealt with. They are fully aware of the seriousness of the crime and possess certain anti-investigation capabilities. They showed strong confrontational psychology during the interrogation.
"At the beginning of the interrogation, some suspects didn't tell the truth, and they racked their brains to fight'guerrilla warfare' with you." The police officer of the task force said, "If you are annoyed by the questioning, they will directly swear at the police of the task force."
After Ma Cheng was arrested, there was no substantial progress in the interrogation.
With the mentality of "opening and shutting up is death", Ma Cheng is silent like a rock, not mentioning criminal acts.
In order to find out Ma Cheng’s “weaknesses” and “pain points”, the interrogation team systematically understands his growth process, social experience and family members, looks for the law of committing crimes in its “evidence book” and “time axis”, uses factual evidence to attack the heart, and borrows policies and laws. Education, use sincere care...
In October 2019, Ma Cheng finally confessed for the first time the criminal behavior of the "Riyueshan Corpse Burial Case".
After investigation, the criminal gang headed by Zhang Chenghu and Ma has used organized illegal and criminal means such as extortion, opening casinos, collecting protection fees, controlling black car operations, and intervening in civil disputes. After 20 years, it has gradually set foot in hotels and real estate. Development, road construction and other fields.
"Only by completely destroying its economic foundation, can we truly achieve "black wealth and clear bottom", root out the evil forces, and prevent the resurgence of the ashes," said the police.
The project team used a variety of methods to check the logistics and trajectory of the assets involved in the case, and carried out detailed screening and characterization of the assets involved in the case, insisting on identifying and investigating the assets involved in the case in accordance with the law, so that they should be thoroughly investigated and deducted.
Since its establishment, the "August 07" task force has worked out and collected 220 clues of various types, opened 66 cases for investigation, and arrested 126 suspects.
To properly handle such complex information and data to ensure the smooth progress of investigations and interrogations is inseparable from the important "nerve center" of the task force-the materials group.
According to the person in charge of the material group, the material group is responsible for docking the remaining 8 groups and the 24 groups under it. All case clues, evidence materials, and investigative direction and other information, regardless of size, must be analyzed and reviewed by the material group. .
There are 13 people in the materials group, and the size of the entire project group once exceeded 300 people.
"The pressure can be imagined, but everyone is extremely united and has a very strong spirit to chew hard bones." The person in charge said.
Put an end to "seeing evil but not umbrella"
According to the person in charge of the "August 07" task force, after more than two years, the complete elimination of this illegal criminal group is of great significance to purifying the social environment and maintaining social stability.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection of Qinghai Province stated that a task force to punish and punish corruption was established in a timely manner, using a dual-class model to simultaneously advance criminal case investigation and punishment and punish corruption, and dig deep into the issue of suspected corruption and umbrella protection of public officials in the "08.07" case. , To put an end to "seeing evil but not umbrella".
Wang Zhengsheng, deputy governor of Qinghai Province and director of the Public Security Department, said that the successful transfer of this major and difficult case to prosecution is inseparable from the strong leadership and support of the National Anti-Corruption Office, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government. The opening of "double-specialized classes" is inseparable from the vigorous cooperation of the public security organs of the fraternal provinces and cities and the active participation of the public, as well as the loyal responsibility and unremitting efforts of all case handlers.
Interviewed political and legal experts said that the universal and deep-seated problems exposed in the special struggles need to be solved from the legal, policy, system, and mechanism levels to form a long-term mechanism for source governance and systematic governance.