Hengyang Shifeng’s investigation into a series of
crimes involving criminal activities involved 5
homicides
, producing and trafficking nearly 6 tons of drugs; 57 people were sentenced in the first instance, and 4 people including Shi Feng were sentenced to death
"The second trial has been opened. Judging from the situation of the trial, Shi Feng is now only seeking quick death." Recently, a person involved in the second trial of Shi Feng's criminal case revealed to a reporter from the Beijing News.
According to Xinhua News Agency, on May 28, 2021, the Hengyang City and District People's Courts of Hunan Province issued a first-instance public verdict on a series of criminal cases involving Shi Feng and other 57 defendants. The defendants Shi Feng, Wu Jianbao, Su Xuefeng, Yang Zhaoqun, etc. Four people were sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life.
The remaining defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from death to one year and three months and corresponding property sentences.
The case is a case under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Security. The court found that among the underworld organization with Shi Feng as the organizer and leader, 19 people including Zhu Hongcheng, Wu Jianbao, Su Xuefeng, Luo Yisen were active participants (4 people have died ); Ni Duohua and other 27 people are general participants.
The illegal and criminal activities involved in the organization include: intentional homicide, armed cover, trafficking, transportation, manufacturing of drugs, illegal manufacture of ammunition, illegal sale of guns, intentional injury, gathering to fight, provoking quarrels, forced trading, etc., and supplying and disinfecting pork in Hengyang. The illegal control of bowls and chopsticks and other markets has severely disrupted the local economic order and social management order, and caused extremely bad social effects.
The initial formation of a criminal group
The first-instance judgment of the Hengyang Intermediate People's Court (hereinafter referred to as the first-instance judgment) shows that Shi Feng, 62 years old, was born in Hengyang City, Hunan Province and has a high school education.
A reporter from the Beijing News obtained a photo taken in 2016. In the picture, Shi Feng has a square face with a wide nose, small eyes, a mustache on the upper lip, and a slightly fat body.
In the impression of some people who have seen Shi Feng in Hengyang, Shi Feng is "hostile" and not talkative. In shallow social interactions, he will be polite and gentle. There is also a "target man" (meaning the person who was shot. ), "Mustache" nickname.
In his 30s, Shi Feng obtained the right of abode in Hong Kong.
Shi Feng mentioned in his confession, “In Hong Kong, if you want to be decent in a mixed society, you must first have money, and second, you must have power. The most important thing is to rely on your own daring to work hard.” He believes that helping others to do things and earning money is not long-term. The trick is, "It's better to go out and do things by yourself and send money to others."
The public prosecution agency found that since 1993, Shi Feng began to travel between Hengyang and Hong Kong frequently, making various kinds of people as a Hong Kong businessman, and successively enlisted public officials such as Zhang Heng, Song Hengwei, and Yang Xiaoheng (deceased) for his use, and absorbed Wu Jianbao. , Zhang Ping and others are younger brothers, and they bought a house in Taiping District of Hengyang City for Wu Jianbao, Zhang Ping and others to live in. At the same time, it was used as an important place for their gang to plan illegal and criminal activities and store tools of crime.
The court found that in 1996, Shi Feng was entrusted by his sister Shi Moumou to arrange for Zhang Ping, Liu Bin and others to conduct a violent debt collection, and to beat the "borrower" He Moumou's husband Tan Mou and Tan Mou's elder brother with a knife and gun. Seriously injured.
In the eyes of the public prosecution agency, the above-mentioned cases marked the initial formation of a criminal group headed by Shi Feng.
According to the indictment, in order to firmly control the organization, Shi Feng established many rules, such as absolute loyalty to "big men"; strict organizational relationships, distinctions between upper and lower, and orderly respect; members of the organization must strictly abide by organizational rules and help each other. We must support and assist each other in celebrations and celebrations; unified management of guns and regular live ammunition training.
According to several people familiar with the matter, Shi Feng would also send cars and houses to core members, and pay regular "salaries". He himself likes to drive off-road vehicles, and most of the gifts given to gang members are off-road vehicles, and the license plate numbers of the members of the group. , All with the letters "AK".
Involved 5 homicides
According to the verdict of the first instance, Shi Feng and his criminal group involved a total of 5 homicides over the past 20 years, including intentional homicide, intentional homicide by triad organizations, and intentional injury to the death of others.
In 1996, before the underworld organization headed by Shi Feng took shape, Shi Feng was hired to kill.
The court found that in the spring and summer of 1996, Zou hired Shi Feng to kill Zhao, the chairman of a Shenzhen company, for 200,000 yuan.
Shi Feng arranged for Wu Jianbao to be the gunman. On the evening of August 30 of that year, he shot Zhao with a 54-standard pistol in front of the Yunpeng Restaurant in Futian District, Shenzhen.
The judgment of the first instance shows that in 1998, Shi Feng gave Wu Jianbao a 59-standard pistol in support of his revenge against Li Moumou, who "raped" Wu Jianbao's girlfriend.
On February 16, 1998, Li Moumou was shot and killed by Wu Jianbao and Zhang Ping near a teahouse on Zhongshan South Road in Hengyang.
The court heard that Wu Jianchao, a member of the gang involved in drug production, had repeatedly caused trouble and went out privately. Shi Feng was worried that Wu would reveal the location of the drug production site, so he arranged for someone to kill him.
According to the confession of Su Xuefeng, Zhang Heng, Luo Yisen and others, at noon on April 18, 2003, Su Xuefeng and the other five people strangled Wu Jianchao from behind with a wire rope when he was unprepared, and used chemical solvents to destroy Wu's body.
Yang Xiaoheng, who was involved in the killing, also died of a heart attack that day.
Until the incident in 2020, Wu Jianchao's elder brother, Wu Jianbao, who was the backbone of Shifeng's gang, did not know that his younger brother was killed by Shifeng.
In addition to being hired to kill and "cleaning up internal troubles" to kill, Shi Feng and his criminal gang have also been entrusted with wounding and death.
The court found that at the end of 2012, Shi Feng was asked to help him settle with Bai Shiwen, a competitor in the disinfection tableware business.
Shi Feng arranged for someone to "make a disastrous Bai Shiwen" when the negotiation failed.
Several persons involved in the case confessed that Shi Feng's order was arranged by Wu Jianbao to Ji Tao to the final executor He Guojun (death sentence has been executed).
At about 20 o'clock on April 17, 2013, at the gate of "Yupin International" in Zhuhui District of Hengyang City, He Guojun shot him to death on the spot because he was afraid of retaliating against him for crippling Bai Shiwen.
According to the 2014 criminal ruling of the High Court of Hunan Province on the shooting of Bai Shiwen, He Guojun was sentenced to death for the crime of intentional homicide and illegal possession of a gun.
He Guojun confessed to Ji Tao instigating the killing of Bai Shiwen during the trial stage.
The judgment of the first instance showed that after Bai Shiwen was killed, Shi Feng arranged for Ji Tao to abscond to Guangxi.
But while Ji Tao was in Guangxi, he acted publicly and caused trouble. Shi Feng was worried that Ji Tao would endanger the safety of the organization, so he ordered it to be removed.
Wu Jianbao, Su Xuefeng and others confessed that in June 2013, Wu, Su and others went to Hezhou to cheat Ji Tao into a car to kill him on the grounds of sending him money, and transported his body to the Laolongtou drug production site with chemical solvents. Its corpses disappeared.
Bai Shiwen’s relatives revealed that Bai Shiwen had already noticed a certain kind of crisis before he was killed. “He (Bai Shiwen) changed the car that he was with into a Jinbei van, and once mentioned to the people around him that if something happened to him, it must be Shiwen. Feng did it." After Bai Shiwen's death, the Bai family believed that the real master behind Shi Feng had been at large.
Produced and sold nearly 6 tons of drugs
The court found that around 1999, Shi Feng opened an "arsenal" in Myanmar to manufacture guns and ammunition, and thus got acquainted with Yang Zhaoqun and Li Sisi.
In 2001, Shi Feng discussed with Yang Zhaoqun and Li Sisi successively. Li Sisi was responsible for purchasing the raw materials and auxiliary materials for the manufacture of methamphetamine. Shi Feng provided the personnel and venues for the manufacture of methamphetamine, as well as the transportation, and started the business of manufacturing and trafficking in drugs.
The three drug production dens involved were all placed by Shi Feng in the suburbs of Hengyang. The first drug production site was located at the Baiyutan Farm in the Xiantang Town Power Station Group.
On November 29, 2021, a reporter from the Beijing News visited the Baiyutan Farm. The farm is located near the current Hengyang East Railway Station, next to the Leishui River, surrounded by mostly residential houses, and the road leading to the farm is a car wide The stone road is covered with dense green plants on both sides of the road, and the entrance is a large iron gate.
"Now the farm basically maintains its original appearance before the Shifeng case."
According to the on-site staff, the farm has been contracted by a businessman and is mainly used for breeding ornamental koi.
There is a two-story white building in the shape of an "L" in the farm.
Several persons involved in the case have confessed that the first floor of this small white building was used to produce drugs, and the second floor was used as a warehouse for drying and storing finished methamphetamine.
There is a corridor of grape racks of nearly 100 meters in the farm. There are several fish ponds on both sides of the corridor. In addition, there are grapefruit trees, pear trees, and golden cinnamon in the courtyard.
The staff of the current farm said, "There are 70 golden sinensis trees."
The judgment of the first instance showed that in May 2001, Shi Feng and Zhu Hongcheng used the Baiyutan Farm as a drug production site and used poultry and koi as a cover. They contacted Yang Zhaoqun to purchase raw materials and auxiliary materials. Li Sisi invited three As the "technical director", the "drug maker" guides the preparation of drug manufacturing equipment and is responsible for specific drug manufacturing.
In addition, Shifeng has also equipped the drug production site with 2 AK47 rifles, 2 54 pistols, 1 Remington shotgun and 2 grenades, and kept Tibetan mastiffs, wolf dogs and other nursing homes.
Local villagers told reporters that when Shi Feng and others first arrived, the villagers used to help plant trees, vegetables, and grape racks.
The farm “has no movement during the day, but there are many vehicles coming in and out at night, and some tools such as dustpans and sieves are still drying in the yard, and occasionally there is a strange smell.”
The Hengyang Intermediate People's Court found that in the second half of 2001, Shi Feng and his criminal gang worked together to produce about 1,400 kilograms of the first batch of drugs at the Baiyutan Drug Production Site.
After the incident, the police dug up two bags of nearly 100 kilograms of drug-making residues underground at this drug-making site, and detected drug-making raw materials and methamphetamine from them.
According to Xiao Jianhao, a member of the gang, about one month after the drug production was completed in Baiyutan, Song Hengwei, a drug production worker, pointed out that the drug production site is close to the villagers’ houses and is easy to be exposed. Shi Feng decided to find another place.
In March 2002, Zhu Hongcheng, the person involved in the case, rented an old dragon head breeding farm under the name "Wang Jing" as a new drug production site.
The Laolongtou drug manufacturing site is less than 10 kilometers away from the Baiyutan drug manufacturing site. On November 29, 2021, reporters visited the drug manufacturing site. The site is also close to the Leishui River, with dense green plants and quite secretive.
The area of the drug production site is several times that of Baiyutan. It is divided into a working area and a living area. The two-story red brick building in the shape of an "L" mentioned by many involved persons as a living area can also be seen on the scene.
The judgment of the first instance shows that due to insufficient power at the old leading drug production site, only the first process of drug production can be completed, and the subsequent links need to be completed at the Baiyutan drug production site.
People involved in drug production and transportation need to travel between the two places many times to complete the entire drug production process.
The court found that in 2003, Shi Feng ordered Wu Jianchao, a member of the gang to be killed here, and Yang Xiaoheng, who was involved in the killing, also died of a heart attack that day.
Shi Feng and others felt unlucky, so they rented another piece of land in the Dujiahe Formation of Jinjialing Farm in Hengyang on February 25, 2004 to prepare a drug production site.
"When they came to rent, they talked about making chemical materials. They rented for 60 years. The rent was paid in one lump sum, and the basement level was built. When we were engaged in infrastructure construction, we all came to work." A member of the Dujiahe Group The village cadre said.
The case-handling agency verified that this basement level was the specific place where Shi Feng and others made drugs.
Several people involved in the case explained that Shi Feng would arrange for someone to clean up the drug production site after each drug production was completed.
In addition, the finished methamphetamine will be transported and sold in a vacuum tea bag hidden in a hollow wooden square.
According to the judgment of the first instance, from 2000 to 2008, Shi Feng and others armed, sold, transported, and manufactured methamphetamine (meth) at the three drug production sites mentioned above, which amounted to approximately 5,960 kilograms, nearly 6 tons.
The invested hotel has been involved in gambling and drug crimes
Around 2010, Shi Feng began to gradually withdraw from the "black industry" and "wash out" the wealth he had accumulated in the early stage.
According to the data in the case, in 2008, Shi Feng stopped the drug business that earned a total of 50 million yuan in personal profits; in the same year, Shi Feng transferred his “arsenal” in Myanmar to others, and made an illegal profit of 8 million yuan.
According to the judgment of the first instance, Shi Feng successively invested his illegal profits and participated in the establishment of Hengyang Linyin Holiday Hotel Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Linyin Hotel), Hengyang Yanfeng District Microfinance Co., Ltd., and Hunan Animal Manor Food Co., Ltd. Companies such as Animal Farm) and Chenzhou Wanguo Hotel are involved in real estate, stone materials, hotels, microfinance, briquette processing, and pork supply.
"Among all the assets of Shifeng, Lin Yin Hotel has the highest value." According to a Hengyang source who provided legal services to Shifeng in his early years.
Peng Weitang (handled in another case) is the "founder" of Lin Yin Hotel and Shi Feng's "partner".
According to his relatives, as of 2004, the Peng family had three Linyin restaurants in Hengyang, and they were the leading enterprises in the Hengyang catering industry.
"At that time, the leaders came to Peng Weitang to talk about the development of the new city. At that time, Hengyang did not have a five-star hotel. If we can find Hong Kong businessmen to cooperate, there will be many policy concessions." Peng Weitang's relatives said that in this context, Peng Weitang found At that time, Shifeng was well-known in Hengyang and possessed certain financial strength.
According to the WeChat official account of Linyin Hotel, the hotel is the first large-scale garden-style super-luxury hotel in Hengyang developed by a joint venture between the mainland and Hong Kong that integrates catering, entertainment, accommodation, and tourism.
The hotel officially opened in early 2008.
"Shi Feng holds 30% of the shares and Peng Weitang holds 70%. Later, after Peng's divorce, his equity was diluted, and Shi Feng's shares have not changed." Peng Weitang's relatives said.
On November 25, 2021, a reporter from the Beijing News visited the Linyin Hotel. The hotel is divided into two buildings, A and B, with eight floors. Both sides of the main entrance are filled with yellow and white painted elephant stone sculptures. The overall building is in a Southeast Asian style.
Multiple sources have confirmed that Room 2423 on the 4th floor of Building B of Linyin Hotel is Shifeng's long private room.
According to Peng Weitang’s relatives, the long private room is a suite, the best room in Linyin Hotel. It covers an area of 118 square meters. The current retail price is 1,680 yuan per day. There are some mahogany furniture inside."
According to the criminal judgment made by the People’s Court of Zhengxiang District of Hengyang City on Wu Jianbao’s opening of a casino in 2019, during the South Africa World Cup football match from June to July 2010, Wu Jianbao, a core member of Shifeng’s criminal gang, worked in forests for illegal gains. Yin Hotel accepts small bets from gamblers for gambling activities on its own.
A total of 572,500 yuan of bets were accepted.
Several effective judgments also indicated that the entertainment venue on the east of the first floor of the Linyin Hotel privately set up "Hi Bags" for profit from 2016 to 2019 to provide places and tools for others to take drugs.
According to the 2017 Criminal Judgment of the People’s Court of Hengyang Zhengxiang District on Zhang’s and others’ tolerance for drug abuse, on the evening of February 6, 2017, the Hengyang Public Security Bureau organized police forces from Leiyang and Changning to fight against the people located on the east of the first floor of Linyin Hotel. Bat Entertainment Company conducted a surprise inspection and seized more than 70 suspected drug users in multiple boxes, of which 58 had a positive urine test.
The criminal ruling of the Hengyang Intermediate People’s Court in 2020 on Peng XX and others hosting others to take drugs shows that in December 2018, the entertainment venue on the east of the first floor of Linyin Hotel, which was changed to the Linyin Noble Club, set some KTV boxes to allow customers to smoke. The drug "Hi bag" provides customers with plates, straws and other drug use tools, and according to the size of the Hi box, each charge is 4080 yuan and 5,080 yuan. By May 2019, several criminal suspects have opened up a total of HI. Pack 16 times.
On November 25, 2021, a reporter from the Beijing News discovered that the "rich club" has now been renamed the Mulsanne Club. There are many pictures of plump women hung at the entrance of the club, and a seal is affixed to the entrance. The sealing unit is the Hengyang Public Security Bureau. High-tech Development Zone Bureau, the time is May 21, 2021.
Violent monopolization of Hengyang pork market
The judgment of the first instance showed that the Shifeng group also illegally controlled the Hengyang pork market, which had a major impact in Hengyang and severely disrupted the local economy and living order.
Written materials obtained by a reporter from the Beijing News show that in 2017, Shifeng actually controlled the animal farm. At that time, the company was the only type A designated pork business unit in the urban area of Hengyang.
"In 2015, the animal farm encountered difficulties in its operation, the capital chain had problems, and it was impossible to borrow money from the bank. It could only borrow through private channels. At first, it was not borrowed from Shifeng, but was related to Shifeng. People borrowed 10 million yuan, which is a 4 cents monthly interest loan.” Li Qingding, the original controller of Animal Farm, recalled that Shi Feng used the principal and interest of this loan to divest some of the company’s debts, and then held the company with 26 million yuan. Holds 60% of the shares.
Li Qingding said that after Shifeng Holding Company, it did not operate and manage the company in accordance with the "Company Law" at all, but a set of "underworld" methods, such as expelling the original shareholders from the management and not regularly disclosing the company's financial data to shareholders. , No dividends are paid, and the company operates completely in accordance with the "one word" model.
In terms of market competition, the animal farm controlled by Shifeng has repeatedly used violent means to interfere with the normal operations of other companies.
The person in charge of Hengyang Derun Food Co., Ltd. recalled that as the only Class A slaughter company in Hengyang City that could compete with the animal farm, the company's daily operations encountered great interference from the animal farm.
"At the end of September 2018, when our new factory in Hengnan County was about to open, the people at the animal farm used the local slaughterhouse to "disturb the people" and locked the factory's gates and prevented it from operating." The person in charge of the aforementioned enterprise Said that when the company delivered the goods at the delivery point near the Chuanshan Bridge in Hengyang, it was also blocked by people from the animal farm, calling the area "their site."
The court found that in April 2017, Shi Feng also arranged for Yisheng and Luo Yisen to form an "inspection team" on the grounds of cooperating with the Food and Drug Administration in order to crack down on the raw pork that entered the urban area of Hengyang without inspection and quarantine. (Commonly known as "white board meat") and "B meat" (only meat sold in Hunan Province), forcibly seized white board meat and B meat, and then deducted meat at a price of 7 yuan per catty. Outside sales.
“Unquarantined'white board meat' and type B pork in restricted areas are often low-cost and cheap, which creates competitive pressure on type-A slaughterhouses that have layers of audit standards and high costs.” A slaughterer in Hengyang City. Said.
In 2020, the People's Court of Zhengxiang District of Hengyang City made a first-instance judgment on the bribery case of Li Kejian, former deputy director of the Hengyang Food and Drug Administration. In 2017, the Hengyang Food and Drug Administration carried out the "white meat" rectification action in the jurisdiction. Animal Farm Mr. Luo gave money and reimbursement for Li Kejian, then deputy director of the Hengyang Food and Drug Administration, for a total of 76,450 yuan for his personal expenses. Li actively provided assistance to the development of the animal farm.
The court found that the "inspection team" arbitrarily damaged other people's property, repeatedly violently beaten butchers, and caused minor injuries to many people.
The Hengyang Procuratorate found that since April 2017, if the animal farm headed by Shi Feng interfered with suspects in the case, it used bribery to collude with relevant state officials and forcibly detained more than 60 pork vendors with more than 10,000 pork in the name of "law enforcement." Jin and sell them at low prices.
Four principal offenders sentenced to death in first instance
According to the case-handling agency materials, after the central government’s special campaign to combat gangsters and evil was launched, the Hengyang Public Security Bureau successively received reports on Shi Feng and his gang.
In September 2018, under the guidance of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department, the Hengyang Municipal Public Security Bureau selected an investigation team to conduct a secret investigation.
On November 30 of the same year, Shi Feng and others were arrested.
On March 2, 2020, the "302" task force was established in Hengyang City to investigate the Shifeng criminal syndicate. The case was directly directed by the Hunan Provincial Public Security Bureau and the Hengyang City Public Security Bureau was mainly responsible for the investigation.
As of October 14, 2020, the Hengyang City Public Security Bureau has classified Shi Feng, Zhu Hongcheng, Wu Jianbao and other 46 members of gangster organizations, 5 suspected of sheltering, condoning gangland organizations, suspected of manufacturing drugs and other non-organization members, a total of 51 crimes The suspect was transferred to the Hengyang City People’s Procuratorate for review and prosecution.
According to Xinhua News Agency, from December 20 to 23, 2020, the Shifeng gang series of cases were filed in Hengyang Intermediate People’s Court, Hengyang Zhuhui District People’s Court, Shigu District People’s Court, Yanfeng District People’s Court, and Zhengxiang The district people's court opened public hearings in the first instance.
"Shi Feng pleaded not guilty to his homicide. He said that he had not personally killed anyone. In the manufacturing and trading of drugs, he felt that he was just an intermediary." Several people who participated in the trial of the first instance revealed to the Beijing News reporter. He refused to admit most of the charges involved in the case.
According to the judgment of the first instance, the Hengyang Intermediate People’s Court held that: Shi Feng was guilty of organizing and leading underworld crimes, guilty of intentional homicide, guilty of trafficking, transportation, and manufacturing of drugs, guilty of illegal manufacturing, trading, and storage of guns, ammunition, and explosives, and guilty of illegality. Possession of guns and ammunition, crimes of intentional injury, crimes of assembling a crowd, crimes of creating disturbances, crimes of illegal detention, crimes of forced trading, crimes of allowing others to take drugs, crimes of usury transfer, combined punishment for multiple crimes, decided Execution of the death penalty, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property.
In addition, Wu Jianbao, Su Xuefeng, and Yang Zhaoqun were also sentenced to death and deprived of their political rights for life; Luo Yisen, Yang Yunjian, Zhu Hongcheng, Zhang Heng, Zhang Ping, and Xiao Jianhao were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve; the remaining gang members were sentenced to life imprisonment up to Imprisonment varies.
After the judgment of the first instance, Shi Feng and others refused to accept it and filed an appeal.
After meeting Shi Feng many times with Shi Feng’s second-instance defender, he talked to a reporter from the Beijing News about his impression of Shi Feng, “He doesn’t feel guilty in doing anything, and he mainly considers it from the perspective of the law of survival, and uses a set of powerful plundering methods. Come to do things or do business", in the last meeting, "Shi Feng behaved very calmly and was ready to die."
Beijing News reporter Wu Xiaofei