In recent years, cross-border fraud and online gambling crimes have become serious. With the intensification of crackdowns in China, a large number of dens of illegal and criminal gangs have begun to move abroad. The leaders and backbone of criminal syndicates are hiding abroad, and under the guise of high-paying recruitment, they lure and recruit young people who are not deeply involved in the world to engage in fraudulent activities or online gambling crimes abroad, which brings great harm. How do these criminals use high-paying recruitment to lure domestic personnel out of the country? What happened when I got abroad? How to effectively combat cross-border gambling and fraud syndicate crime? Let's see it ↓
Guangxi: Cross-border smuggling gang caught successfully cut off a smuggling channel
Recently, the Guangxi Fangchenggang Border Management Detachment spent a year destroying a case of a particularly large organization smuggling gang. In August 2022, the Fangchenggang Border Management Detachment detected suspicious persons operating near the border line through border early warning equipment, and arrested six smugglers on the spot. After surprise interrogation, the police arrested three more organized transporters and 8 smugglers in the surrounding area, both of whom claimed to be tempted by "high-paying jobs abroad" and tried to smuggle out of the country under the arrangement of "smugglers".
In the subsequent in-depth investigation, the police arrested the "snakehead" Chen and 5 drivers and 23 stowaways responsible for organizing transportation. After the gang headed by "Chen" was arrested, the special case team continued to keep a close eye on important clues and found that behind "Chen" there were five criminal gangs that organized illegal immigration with a clear division of labor, involving both domestic and foreign.
The temptation of high-paying jobs abroad The gang has a clear division of labor
According to the police of the task force, there are special members of these gangs who pretend to be recruiters, publish so-called "high-salary recruitment" information on various domestic network social platforms, attract others to contact them, and once someone is hooked, other members remotely control these people to smuggle.
Guangxi Border Inspection Station Fangchenggang Border Management Detachment Police: When these six gangs committed crimes, they used telephones, WeChat, etc. as communication tools with each other, and according to the instructions of overseas "snakeheads", they transported smugglers in sections, batches, and bypass of customs and card avoidance in accordance with the instructions of overseas "snakeheads", in order to evade police crackdowns.
In view of the large number of people involved in the latter five gangs, the wide geographical area involved, and the long organizational chain, the series of gang cases were upgraded to cases supervised by the National Immigration Administration, and in close cooperation with the Fujian Provincial Public Security Organs, after 5 months of meticulous investigation, 6 net collection operations were carried out, 10 organized transporters were arrested, 42 smugglers were seized, 103 vehicles involved in the case were seized, 23 transit dens were destroyed, 7 criminal gangs organized for smuggling were destroyed, and the whole chain cut off an organized smuggling channel across the inland border. It has effectively deterred cross-border illegal and criminal activities.
Up to now, 2 people, including defendant Chen, have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one year to three years and nine months, with fines ranging from one year to three years and nine months, for the crime of organizing and transporting others to smuggle across the national (border) border, and 6 people have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from seven to 32 months for the crime of illegally crossing the national (border) border. Another 1 people were administratively punished by the police.
Overseas fraud returnees arrested to describe the fraud process
was lured by high salaries to smuggle out of the camera, but is the high-paying life abroad really so good? In 2020, Hu was attracted by an advertisement that "typing jobs earn 1,<> yuan a month", and then contacted the other party to enter northern Myanmar. Who knew that he had fallen into the trap of a fraud company and become an accomplice of the criminals of the fraud company, and what he had to do every day was to find the victim of the "pig killing plate" scam. Let's listen to Hu's personal account of the fraud process ↓
Overseas fraud returnees: "pig killing plates" target divorced or single people around the age of 30, who have certain economic ability, it is best to find that kind of public officials have a staff, such as teachers, lawyers, doctors, because these people have better credit, even if they do not have a certain deposit, they can also take out loans. Through various social software and dating websites, the company gives us resources to give us numbers, and packages us as a successful person. If the victim wants to investigate us, he can find it online.
International cooperation has been continuously strengthened to effectively combat cross-border crime
These young people, who have been deceived into moving abroad, are forced to commit criminal acts and are harmed themselves. There are still many difficulties and obstacles in cross-border crackdown on telecommunications network fraud and online gambling crimes, and experts believe that safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and strengthening international judicial assistance are important measures to effectively combat cross-border crimes.
Liao Fan, deputy director of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: If you really want to participate effectively in this case and protect the legitimate rights and interests of our citizens overseas, you need to cooperate with the government or the police in the place where you committed it. Through this cooperation, it is necessary to exercise our jurisdiction or participate in the detection of this case.
And with increased international collaboration, criminal gangs will be more effectively combated, even when they are outside.
Peng Xinlin, professor at the Law School of Beijing Normal University: In our criminal law, there is an important principle of criminal jurisdiction called personal jurisdiction. If the maximum penalty is less than three years, it can not be prosecuted. However, our Chinese criminal law is applicable to these acts of Chinese citizens who are harmed abroad. Although the criminal is abroad, we cannot take some corresponding compulsory measures against him for the time being, but as long as he enters China, we can immediately take corresponding investigation measures against him. At the same time, even if he is abroad, we can pursue their criminal responsibility by strengthening international law enforcement and judicial cooperation. (CCTV News Client)