Every transaction, Li Moumou is very careful.
He couriered the dead bodies of wild animals from poaching to his next home, leaving only his phone number and pseudonym.
When the goods arrive at the destination, the courier calls him, and he calls the buyer to receive the goods.
In the payment process, he is also very particular. He only pays cash when purchasing goods; instead of receiving money directly when shipping, he asks the other party to transfer the money to a friend's WeChat.
Li Moumou, born in 1985, is so "experienced" because he has a criminal record.
As early as 2012, he was sentenced to 5 years for illegally acquiring and selling rare and endangered wild animals.
But this time, he still fell.
In June this year, Sichuan Shehong police arrested 15 people including Li Moumou in many places in Sichuan, Guangdong and Guangxi, and seized 389 dead civet cats, white-faced civet cats, pig badgers, hares, snakes, and live civet cats. 533.
It was found that the "general distribution" Li Moumou sent dead civet cats and white-faced civet cats to Guangdong, Guangxi and other places from January this year to the incident, totaling more than 5,100 kilograms, and seized more than 2,200 kilograms of dead civet cats and white-faced civet cats at his residence. .
Behind this, there are thousands of kilograms of civet cats, white-faced civet cats and other wild animals, as well as the "black industry chain" of poaching and selling wild animals...
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Unexpected incident
Police search and rescue lost elderly man accidentally find animal trap
At the end of last year, when the police from Jinhua Police Station of Shehong City Public Security Bureau in Sichuan were searching and rescuing the lost old man, they accidentally found a trap placed in the forest.
The police noticed that this kind of animal trap is also equipped with an alarm, which looks like a "professional" poaching behavior.
The Jinhua Police Station reported this clue to the Mori Police Brigade of the Shehong City Public Security Bureau. The Mori Police Brigade immediately launched an investigation and quickly found a suspicious man, Wang Moumou from Sandai, Mianyang, and locked the person beside him at the same time. Liang Mou.
Liang Yu, deputy chief of the Forest Police Brigade of the Shehong City Public Security Bureau, said that Wang and Liang purchased a large number of animal traps and alarms online, then tied the animal traps to the alarms and placed them in Shehong, Xichong and other places. On the mountain, it is used to hunt wild animals such as civet cats.
The police found that the alarms were serially numbered, and their signals could be connected to the mobile phone through a software. When an animal was caught by a beast, the alarm would send a signal on the mobile phone and locate it.
The poaching suspects then go up the mountain to "receive the goods" according to the signal.
The police handling the case did not arrest them immediately, but followed the transaction chain and found that Wang Moumou and Liang Mou sold the captured wild animals to Xiong Moumou in Daying County, Sichuan, and Xiong Moumou gave the goods to Yibin, Sichuan Province. Li Moumou.
In the investigation of Li Moumou, the police handling the case also locked his "online" in Ziyang, Bazhong, Sichuan.
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black chain
Wild animals are sold to Guangdong and Guangxi at an increased price
According to Liang Yu, Li Moumou's home is in the countryside of Pingshan County, Yibin, and runs a farm.
But at the same time, he also bought wild animals from 4 "shangjia".
And his four "homes", some go directly to the mountains to poach, and some are "middlemen".
"I mainly purchase civet cats and white-faced civet cats, because the price is high and the market demand is large." Liang Yu told the Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter that Wang Moumou and others who were hunting sold the civet cats at a price of about 55 yuan per kilogram. To the "middleman" Xiong Moumou; Xiong Moumou then sells it to Li Moumou at a price of about 75 yuan/catties.
Li Moumou will buy the dead wild animals and sell them to Guangdong and Guangxi at a price of about 100 yuan/catties.
On June 11, the task force arrested several suspects including Li Moumou in Yibin, Suining, Mianyang, etc., and brought them to justice.
During further interrogation, Li Moumou confessed to his "home" in Bazhong, and the three poachers went online on June 29.
After investigating Li Moumou's courier number and call records, the police identified 7 recipients in Guangdong and Guangxi.
Among them, Mr. Li from Wuzhou, Guangxi and Mr. Liu from Yunfu City, Guangdong purchased a large amount of money. The two were arrested in July this year.
According to Shehong police information, 15 suspects in the case have arrived, including the entire industrial chain from poachers, middlemen, general distributors, and consumers.
The task force seized a total of 389 dead civet cats, white-faced civet cats, pig badgers, hares and snakes, and 533 live civet cats.
It was found that the "general distribution" Li Moumou had sent more than 5,100 kilograms of dead civet cats and white-faced civet cats to Guangdong, Guangxi and other places from January this year to the incident, and more than 2,200 dead civet cats and white-faced civet cats were seized at his residence. catty.
Liang Yu said that according to the weight of a dead civet civet, there are thousands of them.
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behind the arrest
"General distribution" has strong anti-reconnaissance ability and can only be acquired with cash
The police handling the case found that as early as 2012, the "general distributor" Li Moumou was sentenced to 5 years for the crime of illegally acquiring and selling precious and endangered wild animals.
Therefore, Li Moumou, who has "industry experience", has extremely strong anti-reconnaissance ability and is extremely cautious in the "operation" process.
Li Moumou will drive to Santai, Bazhong, Anyue, Daying and other places to buy wild animals, ranging from half a month to a month.
They will contact them in advance, and they will quickly load and trade when they arrive at the scene.
In the transactions with several "homes", Li Moumou only used cash and never transferred money.
Li Moumou is also very cautious in delivering goods to "Xiajia". There is no phone number and name of the consignee on the order, only his phone number and a pseudonym.
After the goods arrived at the destination, the deliveryman called him, and he contacted the buyer to pick up the goods.
He also does not directly charge the buyer's money, but asks the other party to transfer the money to a different friend each time, and then asks the friend to transfer the money to himself.
On June 10, the task force took the lead in carrying out the arrest operation.
After Li Moumou received the goods in Anyue that day, he originally planned to go to Daying to find Xiong Moumou to receive the goods, and the police handling the case set up a point in Daying to stand guard.
But until late that night, Li Moumou did not appear in Daying, but turned back to Yibin halfway.
The members of the task force drove to Yibin again and arrested him at 2:00 a.m. on June 11.
Liang Yu said that he learned later that Li Moumou, who was planning to go from Anyue to Daying on the night of June 10, encountered a traffic policeman checking drunk driving on the road. He was unsure and cancelled Daying's trading plan.
Liang Yu introduced that the case is about to be handed over to the procuratorate. The police also rushed to Henan Province not long ago to investigate the business of selling animal traps and alarms, and the case is still being processed.
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter Yang Ling