China News Service, Guangzhou, February 23 (Fang Weibin, Zheng Shanyin and Xu Yifang) The Guangzhou police reported on the 23rd that the Nansha police in the city recently destroyed a gang suspected of engaging in fraudulent money laundering activities in the form of "running points" through the acquisition of bank cards. 12 suspects were arrested at the scene.
It is reported that the gang has an average daily money laundering turnover of more than 6 million yuan, with a cumulative turnover of more than 200 million yuan.
According to the handling police, the so-called "run points" refers to the integration of legal third-party payment platform channels, cooperative banks, and other service providers in the cloak of online part-time jobs, and the formation of the The Sifang payment platform (illegal online payment platform) is a means to help the black and gray industry chain such as online gambling sites and telecommunications network fraud to receive, transfer, and launder funds.
According to the report, at the end of November 2020, Nansha police found that a bank card account was being used to transfer fraudulent funds.
The police further checked and found that the account was newly opened and there was a large inflow of funds on the day it was opened.
After several days of investigation and data analysis, a money laundering gang entrenched in Nansha District emerged.
The gang has a strict organizational structure. Under the remote command of an overseas telecommunications network fraud den, it uses Nansha District as a base to purchase bank cards from Guangdong Province and provide them to the "shangjia" for fraudulent money laundering crimes.
Police in Nansha, Guangzhou, seized 11 computers, 31 mobile phones, 61 bank cards, and a batch of tools such as USBs in 3 dens.
Photo courtesy of Guangzhou Police
After further investigation, the police handling the case gradually determined the identity of the relevant suspects and mastered the three crime locations where the gang operated money laundering daily.
Part of the gang’s work is clear and the members work in a timely manner. There are administrators who stay in the den to direct transfer operations, salesmen who follow instructions to operate mobile phone transfers, and "riders" who are responsible for driving around contacting social personnel to open bank cards. The trajectories of activities are different.
In order to ensure that the net harvesting operation can be hit with one blow, the Nansha police sent a capable force to closely monitor the three dens.
After the police fully grasped the gang members and found out the connections between the crime dens and the law of their activities, they formulated a well-deployed arrest plan and carried out arrests on the ground.
During the arrest, the Nansha police captured 12 suspects at the scene of 3 dens, and seized 11 computers, 31 mobile phones, 61 bank cards, and a batch of tools such as USBs.
At present, the six main persons involved in the gang have been arrested by the police according to law, and the case is still under investigation.
(Finish)