China News Service, Ziyang, September 25th (Wu Pinghua, Sui Tianzhe) Sichuan Ziyang police revealed on the 25th that after more than two months of investigation, they have traveled to Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, and Sichuan in 4 provinces (cities), 8 cities (counties, District) meticulous investigation, successfully detected the largest series of "copyright infringement" cases of book piracy in Sichuan Province, arrested 21 criminal suspects, destroyed more than 20 printing factories, warehouses, stores and other dens for printing pirated books, involving more than 6 million books , more than 2.4 million copies of various pirated books (including more than 300,000 copies of the "Mi Xiaoquan" series of children's books that were pirated by Sichuan Children's Publishing House), more than 4,000 kinds of books, and as many as 242 copies were violated by the publishing house. The amount involved in the case amounts to 230 million yuan.
Interrogate criminal suspects.
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In May 2022, the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Detachment of Ziyang City Public Security Bureau found clues in the work. After initial investigation and investigation, and under the designated jurisdiction of Ziyang City Public Security Bureau, the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Team of Anyue County Public Security Bureau did not approve the above-mentioned cases. case investigation.
The party committee of the Ziyang Public Security Bureau attached great importance to the case. The main leaders of the Ziyang Public Security Bureau personally took the lead, and dispatched the elite police force of the food and drug environmental investigation of the public security organs at the city and county levels to set up a special task force to carry out the investigation with all their strength.
Through a lot of work, the structure and relationship information of criminal gangs have been clarified, and a whole country-wide "piracy printing - warehouse storage - total wholesale - secondary wholesale - retail outlets" four levels of huge pirated, The chain of criminal gangs that transport and sell pirated books has gradually emerged.
On August 9, after comprehensive consideration and careful deployment, the public security organs at the city and county levels organized more than 120 police officers to form 20 action teams, and went to various places to simultaneously carry out network collection operations and make unified arrests. The main target of the case was all suspects. caught.
The suspects stored infringing books in a warehouse in Chengdu.
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After investigation, the criminal suspect Cao Mouqing has purchased paper, glue and other raw materials by himself since 2018. The criminal suspects Wang Mouqiu, Yu Mouguo and others are responsible for the processes of printing, binding and laminating respectively. They specialize in Sanhe City, Hebei Province. Registered two printing limited companies to hide people's eyes and ears.
The suspects Cao Mourong (Cao Mouqing's daughter) and Ding Mou (Cao Mouqing's son-in-law) rented a storefront in a book wholesale city in Beijing, and sold pirated printed books wholesale to Sichuan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing, etc. 10 In more than 10 provinces and cities, each province and city will be sent to each sales terminal by distributors at all levels.
In order to evade the attack, they carried out criminal activities by fraudulently using other people's identity information, using mobile warehouses, frequently changing sales channels, settlement methods and contact methods.
At present, 21 criminal suspects have been arrested, and all the suspects have truthfully confessed the facts of the crime upon arrival.
The Anyue County Public Security Bureau took compulsory measures against 21 criminal suspects in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.
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