Chinanews.com, Beijing, December 24 (Reporter Zhang Ziyang) The Ministry of Public Security held a press conference today to inform the national public security organs of the special operation of cracking down and rectifying the use of information networks to implement underworld crimes.
Up to now, public security organs across the country have eliminated 1,759 criminal gangs that used information networks to carry out criminal forces, arrested 17,000 criminal suspects, detained 16,400 criminal suspects, cracked 32,000 criminal cases and seized assets involved in the case. 29.95 billion yuan has formed a powerful deterrent to the use of information networks to commit crimes by criminal forces.
In recent years, with the rapid development of information networks, traditional criminals have spread to the Internet.
Compared with the traditional crimes of the underworld, the use of information networks to commit underworld crimes has the characteristics of younger criminal subjects, loose organizational structure, refined division of labor, and "soft violence" of criminal methods.
Criminals make use of the information network to realize illegal profits by fabricating false information, extorting, slandering, intimidating, lending at huge profits, and inflating debts.
Such crimes severely disrupt the order of economic and social life, and the consequences are very serious. The people have expressed strong reactions to this.
In order to resolutely implement the spirit of the central leadership’s instructions, actively respond to the new requirements and expectations of the people, and continue to deepen the promotion of the special fight against crime and evil to extend to the Internet, the Ministry of Public Security deployed the national public security organs in November 2019 to carry out a one-year Use the information network to implement special rectification actions for criminals of the underworld, organize public security organs across the country to give full play to their functions, open up a new battlefield, and clarify the focus of rectification, so as to open the way, link up and down, overcome difficulties, fight while rectifying, and successfully defeated A group of criminal gangs arrested a group of criminal suspects, cleared a group of hidden dangers, formed a strong crackdown and high-pressure situation, promoted the comprehensive management of gang-related crimes, effectively purified cyberspace, and maintained Good social order.
Liu Zhongyi, Director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, informed that in recent years, the number of criminal cases in my country has maintained a steady and declining trend. However, with the rapid development of information networks, crime patterns have undergone profound changes, and traditional crimes have accelerated their spread to the Internet. , The information network has become an important battlefield for the eradication of gangsters.
In March 2020, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the National Anti-gang Office, the Ministry of Public Security further refined the plan, rectified while cracking down, and resolutely maintained a healthy network environment and good social order.
Up to now, public security organs across the country have eliminated 1,759 criminal gangs that used information networks to carry out criminal forces, arrested 17,000 criminal suspects, detained 16,400 criminal suspects, cracked 32,000 criminal cases and seized assets involved in the case. 29.95 billion yuan has formed a powerful deterrent to the use of information networks to commit crimes by criminal forces.
One is to open up a new battlefield and clarify the direction of attack.
In response to the characteristics of younger criminal subjects, loose organizational structure, refined division of labor, and "soft violence" of criminal methods using information networks to commit crimes by underworld forces, the Ministry of Public Security promptly opened up a new battlefield, clarified the direction of the attack, and deployed national public security agencies Severely crack down on seven types of online "routine loans", "naked chat" extortion, malicious claims, negative public opinion extortion, online naval disturbances, online violent pyramid schemes, and online "soft violence" collections.
The second is to strengthen overall planning and improve the quality and effectiveness of combat.
The Ministry of Public Security has closely focused on combating and rectifying targets and tasks, establishing a multi-police joint case handling mechanism, clarifying the division of responsibilities, and forming a combined combat force.
Selected from all parts of the country, set up special work teams and commanded them. In July this year, public security agencies in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong were deployed to conduct on-the-spot inspections of 39 "naked chat" blackmail cases and arrested 138 suspects. ; In November this year, a nationwide centralized network collection operation was deployed, 133 criminal gangs were destroyed, 712 criminal suspects were arrested, and 311 million yuan of assets involved were seized.
In its work, the Ministry of Public Security pays attention to strengthening close cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China and third-party Internet companies, establishing a collaboration mechanism, building a nationwide monitoring and early warning platform for suspected “routine loans” illegal crimes, and a “naked chat” extortion case serialization system to deepen Big data application, real-time monitoring of crime trends; building a cross-regional collaboration platform within the public security organs, coordinating the national public security organs' cross-provincial investigations and obtaining evidence from different places, and realizing integrated investigations.
Up to now, the platform has initiated 137,900 collaboration tasks and achieved obvious results.
According to statistics, the number of suspected online “routine loan” operating institutions across the country has dropped by 86% from the peak in 2019, and the number of “naked chat” extortion crimes has continued to decline since June this year.
The third is to strengthen the linkage between the top and bottom, and make every effort to overcome difficulties.
Public security organs at all levels took the key strikes deployed by the Ministry of Public Security and the clues issued as the entry point, comprehensively explored and took multiple measures, and successfully eliminated a group of criminal gangs that used information networks to carry out criminal forces.
Taking the "Zhongshan" and "Blue Sword" series of concentrated strikes as the lead, Jiangsu successfully eliminated 57 criminal gangs, and solved the case of cyber navy riots that pretended to be "police flowers" from the public security self-media during the epidemic; Zhejiang prepared to use information The Internet implemented a crime research and judgment center for underworld forces, established a professional research and judgment team, gathered big data resources, accurately researched and judged 470 criminal clues, successively carried out "Qianchao No. 9" and "Qianchao No. 10" special operations, and eliminated 44 criminal gangs. 174 criminal suspects were arrested; Guangdong took the lead in setting up a new type of crime research center to organize and carry out special "naked chat" blackmail criminal operations, destroy 51 criminal gangs, and destroy a group of criminal gangs using information networks. The criminal benefit chain of “fan sucking” and platform operation and maintenance supported by the crimes of evil forces; Guangxi carried out in-depth police intelligence and clue search, concatenated and “naked chat” to blackmail 27 criminal clues, eliminated 7 criminal gangs, and successfully detected the country The first case of "naked chat" blackmailing crimes involving gangs; Gansu took the initiative to carry out online inspections, focusing on finding clues of online "routine loans", and successfully detected the country's first online "routine loan" crimes involving gangs.
The fourth is to insist on treating while fighting to ensure long-term and regular treatment.
The public security organs, in conjunction with cybersecurity and informatization, industry and information technology, and market supervision and administration departments, carry out the discovery, crackdown, and processing of Internet illegal and harmful information, focusing on rectifying problems such as App, SDK violations, and excessive collection of personal information.
Up to now, more than 3 million illegal and harmful information have been intercepted and deleted, and more than 1,400 illegal website platforms have been rectified.
Persist in using cases to promote reforms, accurate prompts, follow-up and inquiries, promptly discover problems and loopholes in the industry supervision departments in the cases, issue more than 600 public security reminders, fully tighten and compact the responsibilities of the industry departments, and further strengthen the use of information network implementation Comprehensive management of crimes committed by evil forces.
In conjunction with the Supreme Law, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Justice, we have issued "Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Handling of Criminal Cases Using Information Networks to Carry Out Criminal Crimes by Underworld Forces" and other legal documents to ensure that special rectification runs on the track of the rule of law and ensure that every case is successfully handled The "iron case" of legal and historical inspection was initiated.
Tong Bishan, deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, responded to a reporter’s question on "What difficulties do public security organs have in the process of cracking down, and how should ordinary people avoid such crimes", said that in the process of case investigation, various localities reported the main difficulties encountered. That is, the victims took the initiative to report fewer reports and did not cooperate with investigations to collect evidence.
For example, in the online "routine loan" cases where there are more cases, some victims, because they don't understand the "routines" of criminal gangs, think that they have borrowed money and did not return it as scheduled. This is the party at fault, even if high fees are charged. Illegal debt collection is also taken for granted; some victims are repelled by "soft violence". Even if the public security organs clearly inform the lender that the lender is a criminal gang, they are still unwilling to cooperate; some victims are unable to repay. Inflated debts, change all contact information and go away.
In "naked chat" blackmail and negative public opinion blackmail cases, some victims are afraid of being exposed because the criminal gang has their private and sensitive information and are afraid of adverse effects; some victims think that they have "paid money", even if the public security organs have killed them Criminal gangs are not willing to come forward to testify.
In malicious claim cases, some victims did not pay enough attention to the amount of extortion, and spent time to cooperate with the public security organs to obtain evidence. It is better to spend money to settle the matter; some victims have weak legal consciousness and insufficient awareness of evidence preservation, resulting in the loss of chat evidence and related data. Provide effective evidence; some victims did have minor faults in the process of operating the online shop, believing that the public security organs are not only investigating and collecting evidence, but worrying about being punished.
In the case of Jiaxing Tao’s malicious claim, the court ruled that the group was a criminal group of evil forces according to law, but there were still situations where the business refused to contact or even returned the stolen goods.
In this regard, the public security organs reminded the general public that when they are illegally infringed by cyber criminals involved in the information network, they must be calm and calm, call the police as soon as possible, and protect themselves with legal weapons. Don’t get caught up in fear of intimidation by criminals. Deep; it is necessary to keep good chat records, transaction records and other electronic evidence, which are important basis for determining criminal facts; to actively cooperate with the public security organs’ investigation and evidence collection work, accurately explain the situation, and provide the account number involved in the case to facilitate the public security organ’s in-depth investigation and recover the stolen goods as soon as possible Salvage.
Tong Bishan said that the general public should also strengthen their awareness of self-prevention and improve their ability to resist risks.
To be more sensitive, do not add strangers to WeChat, and do not disclose personal identity, phone number, address, work, payment account and other private information.
Be vigilant, hang up all calls from unknown sources; delete all messages that contain unknown network links; all unfamiliar netizens invite to meet, all decline; see Internet scams, erotic temptations, all boycott.
It is necessary to improve the discrimination ability, choose a formal financial institution with loan qualifications when making online loans, do not be greedy for small bargains, do not believe in false advertisements such as "unsecured, low interest rates", and stay away from illegal online lending; when applying for jobs online, choose a formal recruitment website , Carefully review the qualifications of the company, and do not trust unconditional high-paying recruitment information.