Uncover the shady background behind online chat extortion
Pinggui, Hezhou, Guangxi: Handling a cross-border cyber extortion case involving gangsters
Liang Jun Pan Yu
Smuggling, online naked chat, extortion, money laundering, detention, rape, armed patrols, infighting, assassination, defecting with a team... These cases, which are comparable to movie scenes, happened in the case of Chen Mouzhong, who was handled by the Procuratorate of Pinggui District, Hezhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. People involved in black cases.
A few days ago, with the four missing criminals including Chen Mouying and Li Mouhuan in the gang, they were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from seven years and eight months to ten months, and the gang was completely destroyed.
Previously, the main culprit in the gang, Chen Mouzhong, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for several crimes, and the remaining 11 criminals were also sentenced to terms ranging from 12 years to one year and six months.
According to the previous press conference of the Ministry of Public Security, this case is the first naked chat extortion case in the country that is judged as a crime of a triad organization.
Naked chat temptation: an "Aventure" was extorted 120,000
On the evening of December 18, 2019, after get off work, Xiao Luo, a young man from Pinggui, Hezhou, was bored and lonely and wanted to find some excitement.
As usual, he was lying on the sofa in the staff dormitory, brushing various dating apps.
Brushing and brushing, a dating software automatically matched Ronaldinho with a chat object nicknamed "Little Lucky", and the other party sent him some pictures of beautiful women and some seductive and provocative language.
Ronaldinho, who couldn't help the temptation, began to chat with each other on the Internet, and later developed into a naked chat.
After Ronaldinho showed his facial features during the naked chat, the other party quickly hung up the video and sent him a software link called "little girl next door", saying that he was invited to enter the live broadcast room to watch the live broadcast.
After that, Ronaldinho's nightmare began.
After downloading and installing the software as required by the other party, Ronaldinho entered the invitation code given by the other party.
A few minutes later, Ronaldinho did not wait for a surprise, but received a video and a list of mobile phone contacts from the other party.
After opening the video, Ronaldinho instantly felt that five thunders hit the top: it was the video he just chatted naked, and the address book list was also his mobile phone address book.
At this moment, Ronaldinho's phone rang. The other party claimed that they had taken screenshots of Ronaldinho's naked chat video, recorded the video, and also mastered the list of his mobile phone contacts. They asked Ronaldinho to pay 1,000 yuan to delete the video.
If Ronaldinho doesn't transfer the money, they send pictures and videos to his family, leaders and friends.
Fearing that the indecent video would be exposed, Ronaldinho chose to compromise and paid 1,000 yuan through the QR code sent by the other party.
I thought this matter would end here, but the other party didn't stop, but kept intimidating him, letting him continue to transfer money in different ways.
It wasn't until Ronaldinho spent all his savings and overdrafted his credit card that the other party gave up.
In the end, Ronaldinho transferred a total of more than 120,000 yuan to the persons involved in 9 times.
After the incident, Ronaldinho came to the Pinggui Branch of the Hezhou Municipal Public Security Bureau to report the case.
Subsequently, the bureau successively received reports from Xiao Li and Xiao Liu, who were also extorted by others using the same modus operandi.
Three consecutive cases with the same criminal methods occurred in the jurisdiction, which aroused the great concern of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the bureau.
Following the Line: A Public Account Leads to a Criminal Group
After the police combined the above three cases for investigation, they soon discovered the key point of solving the case, that is, there were multiple collection accounts in each case.
Although the collection codes are not exactly the same, the same account appeared in all three cases—the corporate account of a weaving company in Nan'an City, Fujian Province.
Through analysis and judgment, the police found that there have been as many as hundreds of unidirectional transfers of funds from different transaction objects in the above-mentioned collection accounts in recent months.
Since then, these funds have been transferred out again centrally and flowed to several accounts, including accounts controlled by foreigners.
This allows the police handling the case to basically determine that the three cases were committed by the same group of criminals, and it is very likely that they are a group of criminal gangs with a clear division of labor and a complex hierarchical structure involving foreign countries.
Soon, the investigative agency locked the actual controller of a weaving company's public account, Hong Mouyao, and Chen Moucheng, who was in frequent contact with him. At this time, no trace of Chen Moucheng's activities could be found in the country.
Until the beginning of May 2020, the police learned that more than 10 people including Chen Moucheng were administratively punished at a port in Yunnan Province for illegally crossing the country (border) border.
After the investigation, the investigation agency arrested 11 criminal suspects including Chen Moucheng, Hong Mouyao, Chen Mouling and Yu Mouwen from May 18 to 27 of the same year.
After interrogation, a company named "Wansheng Group" surfaced.
Among the 11 suspects, except for Hong, who had to wait for 3 people in China, the rest followed Chen Moucheng to smuggle back to China from Myanmar. Before that, they all smuggled from Yunnan Province to Mengbo, Myanmar, and worked in "Wan". Sheng Group".
The police found that "Wansheng Group" mainly committed fraud, extortion and other crimes through online gambling and online naked chat.
Since the case involved overseas and the circumstances were serious and complicated, the investigation agency invited the Pinggui District Procuratorate of Hezhou City to intervene in the case in advance to guide the investigation.
Prosecutor's assistance: dig out the gang of underworld forces behind naked chats
After intervening in the case in advance, the undertaking prosecutor learned about the case by consulting the evidence materials and holding a joint meeting of prosecutors and police.
After consulting with the investigative agency, the prosecutor believes that the case is likely to be a cross-border cyber criminal case involving naked online chatting as a criminal method.
Through analysis, the procuratorial organ believes that the breakthrough point of this case lies in Chen Moucheng.
Why did Chen Moucheng suddenly leave the "Wansheng Group"?
Why did more than 10 people including Yu Mouwen want to go back to China with Chen Moucheng?
What is the status of Chen Moucheng in the group?
What happened in between?
... The prosecutor in charge suggested that the investigative agency conduct investigation and evidence collection around Chen Moucheng.
Through legal policy publicity, ideological education and other work, criminal suspects including Chen Moucheng expressed their willingness to cooperate with the police investigation, and took the initiative to confess that "Wansheng Group" was located near "Jinniu Lake" in Mengbo, Myanmar. Through online gambling "killing pigs" to defraud domestic personnel, it was later turned into online naked chat to extort.
Chen Moucheng is mainly responsible for the technical work of online naked chat in the company, as well as contacting domestic and foreign code merchants to launder money for the gang.
Chen Moucheng left the company because in the process of money laundering, the boss Chen Mouzhong suspected that Chen Moucheng and Hong Mou would embezzle money and put them under house arrest.
During this period, Chen Moucheng learned from his fellow villager Chu that Chen Mouzhong might kill him. Therefore, with the assistance of acquaintances in the company, he led more than 20 people who were willing to follow him to escape the "Wansheng Group" and smuggled back to China.
At this time, the outline of a transnational criminal group that committed extortion crimes through naked online chat gradually became clear.
So, whether it is a criminal gang involving underworld forces has become the key to the investigation of the case.
Since then, the procuratorial police have consulted many times, and the procuratorial organ has successively put forward more than 70 supplementary investigation opinions, mainly focusing on the organizational structure of the group, the specific criminal behaviors, the economic benefits obtained through illegal crimes, and the group's criminal behavior. , the impact of the victim's life and work, etc.
Under the guidance of the procuratorial organs, the investigative organs comprehensively collected evidence and gradually clarified the basic outline of the "Wansheng Group": since July 2019, Chen Mouzhong, Chu Mou, and "Along" (identity information unknown) committed fraud , extortion and other crimes, established a den in Mengbo, Myanmar, and recruited personnel from China to smuggle to Myanmar by means of high-paying lure and introduction by acquaintances. Xie Mou, Tu Mouhong and others are a gang of active participants.
The maximum number of members of the gang is hundreds of people, and the personnel are basically fixed. Group” and “money laundering group” and other levels, each group is led by a group leader, the group leader is a senior agent, and the senior agent leads multiple groups.
The gang also has a "security team" that hires local armed organizations in Myanmar to patrol the company, on the one hand to avoid interference from other local forces; on the other hand, it also restricts the free access of bottom-level salesmen.
In order to gain illegal benefits, the gang targeted unspecified persons on multiple social platforms, and for a long time carried out naked chat extortion and "killing pigs" scams online. Offline, the gang used telephone calls to harass the victim's family members, relatives and friends to ask the victim for a total of money. More than 5 million yuan, and as many as 717 victims, including minors and college students, were distributed in 27 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities across the country.
At the same time, the police also found out that the group organized others to sneak across the country (border), money laundering after obtaining the victim's money, electric shocks, beatings, water jails and other illegal detentions of some low-level salesmen, some bosses, senior agents, etc. The acts of rape of female salespersons in the group, etc.
At this point, the true face of "Wansheng Group" has finally been revealed, which is in line with the relevant provisions of organized crime of underworld nature, and the temptation of naked chatting is one of its criminal methods.
The police's pursuit work has also made progress. On July 24, 2020, the boss Chen Mouzhong was arrested and brought to justice.
Chen Mouzhong's arrest made up for the lack of being brought to justice at the boss level, and he also confessed to all the facts of the case.
On August 31, 2020, the Pinggui District Procuratorate charged 12 people including Chen Mouzhong and Chen Moucheng for organizing, leading, and participating in a triad organization, racketeering, fraud, illegal detention, and money laundering. The court filed an indictment.
After the trial of the first instance and the second instance, the court accepted the accusation of the procuratorate, determined that the case was a crime of a gangland organization, and made the above judgment, and the missing criminals who were arrested and brought to justice were also sentenced to corresponding penalties.