China News Service, Yinchuan, April 7 (Reporter Li Peishan) The reporter learned from the Narcotics Control Office of Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia on the 7th that the first drug-related "self-money laundering" case in Ningxia that was successfully cracked by the bureau was recently sentenced, which started the "clearance of drug control in Ningxia". The first shot of the "Drain the Source" operation "Break the Wealth and Break the Blood".

  In September 2021, the public security organ of Yongning County found during work that Zhao, a former drug-related criminal, had repeatedly sold drugs and methamphetamine to drug addicts in Yinchuan City and other places.

Focusing on this clue, the investigators of the public security organs conducted a meticulous investigation of Zhao and others day and night, and finally a "zero pack" drug gang that was hiding in the local area and profiting from drug trafficking gradually surfaced.

  After many days of tracking and squatting on Zhao by the police handling the case, at the door of a restaurant in Yinchuan City, the criminal suspect Zhao who was selling methamphetamine to drug addicts was arrested on the spot, and a total of 1.87 grams of methamphetamine was seized on the spot.

  After the surprise interrogation of the criminal suspect Zhao Mou, Zhao Mou confessed the criminal facts that he purchased the drug methamphetamine from the criminal suspect Li Mou for the purpose of profit.

Subsequently, the police arrested the criminal suspect Li in Yinchuan City and brought him to justice.

  During the investigation of the case, the police handling the case found that the criminal suspect, Li Mou, used his mother Liu's Alipay and WeChat accounts to collect drug funds and used part of the drug funds to pay for the repayment of debts in order to cover up and conceal his illegal income from drug trafficking.

According to the latest provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment (11) promulgated and implemented on March 1, 2021, after the perpetrator commits a drug crime, in order to cover up or conceal the source and nature of his criminal proceeds and the proceeds, he transfers funds, etc. The crime of money laundering alone constitutes the crime of money laundering, and it is jointly punished with the crime of upstream drug trafficking.

  In response to this situation, the public security organ of Yongning County immediately reported to the Ningxia Public Security Department and the Yinchuan Municipal Public Security Bureau. Li not only constitutes the crime of drug trafficking, but also should be investigated for legal responsibility for the crime of money laundering.

This is also the first case of drug trafficking and self-money laundering in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region since the implementation of the Criminal Law Amendment (11).

  With the strong support of the higher-level public security organs, the police handling the case of the public security organs of Yongning County went to Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province and other places to collect and fix the relevant evidence of Li's "self-laundering" crime, and then transferred the case to the procuratorate. Organs review prosecution.

  On March 29 this year, the Yongning County People's Court pronounced that Zhao was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 10,000 yuan for the crime of drug trafficking.

Li was sentenced to one year and nine months in prison and a fine of RMB 10,000 for the crime of drug trafficking; for the crime of money laundering, he was sentenced to eight months in prison and a fine of RMB 1,000; it was decided to combine the two sentences of imprisonment. Year, and a fine of 11,000 yuan.

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