China News Service, Haikou, May 23 (Wang Meiqi) According to the news from the First Intermediate People's Court of Hainan Province (hereinafter referred to as Hainan First Intermediate Court) on the 23rd, the Hainan First Intermediate Court held a public hearing on the same day to hear Chen Jizhen and other 31 defendants suspected of organizing, The crime of leading, participating in a triad organization, extortion, fraud, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, opening a casino, illegally absorbing public deposits, forced trading, usury on loan, and collecting illegal debts.
Court scene.
Photo by Chen Yiqi
The procuratorial organs allege that in the early 1990s, defendant Chen Jizhen gathered social idlers, defendants Wu Zhiguo and Liu Yonggang, and others to illegally sell gold, set up private pawnshops to lend money, and illegally operate private lottery in the large area of Danzhou, Hainan Province. Illegal enrichment.
Since 1996, Chen Jizhen has opened a number of casinos, and arranged for defendants Wu Zhiguo, Chen Weimin, Chen Rongcheng and others to manage the casinos to expand the scale of illegal accumulation.
From 1993 to 2005, during the illegal operation of private lottery in various towns and villages in Danzhou, the gang's illegal authority was further established in the Danzhou area with the incident of cracking down on the masses who redeemed prizes.
In June 2005, Chen Jizhen established Danzhou Xionglong Pawn Co., Ltd., and began to organize illegal and criminal activities such as illegal lending, illegal absorption of public deposits, and violent debt collection. The underworld with Chen Jizhen as the organizer and leader Formal organization of nature.
In 2013, Chen Jizhen, together with the defendants Xu Hanye, Cai Shaowu, and Chen Jianhua, organized Shenzhen Tongtai Pawn Co., Ltd. to infringe the victim's land use rights, equity, real estate, etc. by various means, and intervened in construction, education and other industries with illegally occupied assets , so that the scale of illegal lending is rapidly escalating.
Defendant Chen Jizhen, as the organizer and leader, and defendants Chen Jian, Zhao Xiuqiong and others, organized criminal activities, forming illegal control and significant influence.
Through a series of illegal and criminal activities such as extortion, fraud, casino opening, forced trading and other illegal and criminal activities, the organization's economic income reached 300 million yuan, and the illegal deposits from the public amounted to more than 116 million yuan, which seriously disrupted the local financial management order and caused the people to be violent. The psychological fear caused by the closure of many private enterprises, many families broke up, dare not go home, dare not report, seriously damaged the local economy, society, life order and the credibility of the administrative and judicial organs.
Due to the large number of people involved in the case and the seriousness and complexity of the case, the trial is expected to last several days.
Some deputies to the National People's Congress, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the news media were present to observe the trial.
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