On the morning of March 31, the Intermediate People’s Court of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province issued a first-instance verdict on a diamond smuggling case worth more than 200 million yuan in the case of Chen Moushi and others. He sentenced Chen Moushi to 11 years’ imprisonment for the crime of smuggling ordinary goods. The fine was RMB 23 million.

The remaining 4 people were sentenced to between one year and six months to 10 years, with fines ranging from 60,000 to 8 million yuan.

  The court found that since 2017, the defendants Chen Moushi, Chen Mouxiang, and Zou Mouda had jointly conspired to smuggle diamonds from abroad for profit in order to seek illegal benefits.

Chen Moushi and Chen Mouxiang are responsible for contacting the purchase and sale of diamonds, Zou Mouda is mainly responsible for sales, Huang Mouwen is hired to help prepare purchase orders, pick-up orders and other documents, and dock smuggling matters with the marine group Dan was hired to pay for the goods and the cost of bringing the goods to the agents and water customers designated accounts of overseas diamond companies in Hong Kong, and to prepare cost sales accounts.

After the parallel import gang went to the Hong Kong agent to pick up the goods with the pick-up form, the diamonds were smuggled into the Shenzhen port and sent to Wenzhou by express mail.

From February 2017 to August 2020, the defendant Chen Moushi and others smuggled a total of 9,486 diamonds into the country and sold them, suspected of evading more than RMB 37 million in taxes.

  On September 1, 2020, Chen Moushi, Chen Mouxiang, Zou Mouda, and Huang Mouwen were arrested in Wenzhou and seized 111 sets of diamonds and certificates, and 4 diamond products at their business location in Lucheng District, Wenzhou City. Six computer hard disks, a number of mobile phones and bank cards.

Before the prosecution of this case, Chen Moushi, Chen Mouxiang, Zou Mouda, Huang Mouwen, Huang Moudan and the People’s Procuratorate reached confession of guilty and punished respectively, and withdrew from the illegal gains of 3 million yuan, 1.5 million yuan, and 1 million yuan respectively. Yuan, 200,000 yuan, 60,000 yuan.

  The court held that the defendants Chen Moushi, Chen Mouxiang, and Zou Mouda evaded customs supervision and adopted the method of buying diamonds smuggled into the country from abroad, smuggling diamonds into the country for profit, and the amount of tax payable in the illegal import link is particularly huge; Huang Knowing that she was smuggling, she still helped to produce documents and connect with others in smuggling matters. The amount of tax payable in the import link was particularly huge; Huang Moudan knew that others were smuggling, but she still helped to pay for the goods, the cost of bringing the goods, and the production cost of the sales account. , The amount of tax payable for evading import links is particularly huge, and their acts have constituted the crime of smuggling ordinary goods.

The defendants Chen Moushi and Chen Mouxiang had premeditated and were also responsible for contacting the purchase and sale of smuggled diamonds. They acted positively and played a significant role in the joint crime, and they were both the principal offenders.

Zou Mouda, Huang Mowen, and Huang Modan played a secondary role in the joint crime and were accomplices.

  Ge Rongjin, chief reporter of The Paper