China News Service, Hulin, February 25 (by Shi Pian, reporter Wang Nina) A warehouse in Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province bought and sold fake cigarettes. The police dug deep and found a clue to the sale of fake cigarettes across the country... Recently, Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province The Public Security Bureau uncovered a cross-provincial illegal sale of counterfeit cigarettes, involving more than 190,000 counterfeit cigarettes, and the amount involved was more than 1.1 million yuan.

  On November 13, 2020, the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau of Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province requested assistance from the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of the city, stating that Mr. Li from the city was secretly selling counterfeit products to the local warehouse at the 858 Farm in Hulin City. Counterfeit cigarettes.

The police rushed to the scene, arrested Li and seized more than 16,000 counterfeit and inferior cigarettes.

  That night, the police interrogated Li overnight.

At the beginning, Li said that he only sold more than 10,000 fake cigarettes at the 858 Farm.

In the explanation, Li was evasive, which aroused the suspicion of the police. When asked about the source of cigarettes, Li kept silent, and the case was once deadlocked.

Destroyed 3 dens, Hulin Public Security Bureau

  At the same time, the police reorganized the case, quickly adjusted the investigative thinking, sorted out clues from the supply channels and fund exchanges, and fixed the evidence.

In front of a large amount of evidence, Li truthfully confessed that more than 120,000 counterfeit and inferior cigarettes were sold to Hulin City and the surrounding area, and the amount involved exceeded 90,000 yuan. He also stated that the counterfeit cigarettes were purchased from Guangxi and the purchase method was only by telephone.

  With a name and a phone number, the police, with the only clues they had, with the strong support of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Detachment and the Technical Investigation Detachment of Hulin Public Security Bureau, they locked Li's online Yang Mou, and expanded the line to dig out Yang. A certain is online with Zhang and Xu.

  After two months of secret investigation, the police obtained a large amount of criminal evidence from Yang, Zhang, and Xu and went to Guangxi to carry out network collection work.

  Due to unfamiliar regions, unfamiliar regional environments, differences in dialects, inconvenience caused by the epidemic, and the three suspects belong to different regions, it is difficult to arrest them.

The arrest team deliberated many times and carried out a careful arrest plan in the early stage. Finally, the soldiers were divided into three groups. After more than ten days and nights, they squatted and tracked uninterruptedly, and finally figured out the trajectory and regularity of the activities of the three suspects.

  January 14, 2021, closing day.

The police arrested the three criminal suspects in Fangchenggang City, Guangxi. At the same time, they destroyed three storage dens and seized more than 150,000 counterfeit and inferior cigarettes of 16 brands, involving more than 1 million yuan.

  After interrogation, the 3 suspects confessed that the counterfeit and inferior cigarettes have been sold to 16 provinces across the country.

At the same time, Yang confessed that there are still more than 23,000 counterfeit and inferior cigarettes in Hulin that have not been sold.

  At present, the criminal suspects Yang, Zhang, and Xu have been arrested by the Hulin People’s Procuratorate; the criminal suspect Li has been released on bail and the case is under further investigation. (Finish)