China News Service, January 25. Zheng Xinjian, a member of the Procuratorial Committee of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and Director of the Fourth Procuratorate, said at a press conference on the 25th that procuratorial organs continue to increase their punishment of cyber crimes.
Since 2019, procuratorial organs have prosecuted more than 50,000 cybercrime cases and more than 140,000 people.
In response to the continuous and high incidence of crimes that seriously endanger network security such as telecommunications network fraud and online gambling, actively participate in special actions such as "card break" and "combat cross-border gambling", and work with relevant departments to adhere to both punishment and prevention, and combine punishment to resolutely contain Related crimes are spreading rapidly.
According to Zheng Xinjian, according to statistics, since the "broken card" special operation, the procuratorial organs have severely cracked down on those who illegally buy and sell phone cards and bank cards in accordance with the law, especially focusing on cracking down on those who specialize in illegal purchases and sales of "two cards" and those who collude with them. Other personnel prosecuted more than 8,000 people; together with the public security organs, they dug into the clues of fraud crimes and prosecuted more than 23,000 people for telecommunications and network fraud crimes.
Since the special action "combating cross-border gambling", the procuratorial organs have strengthened the listing and supervision of key cases and prosecuted more than 17,000 people who used Internet means to open casinos and gambling crimes, and achieved positive results.
Zheng Xinjian said that in response to financial crimes committed on the Internet under the guise of "innovation", procuratorial organs penetrated the appearance of network technology in handling cases and implemented precise strikes. Since 2019, they have supervised 36 key cases with the Ministry of Public Security to effectively prevent financial risks.
In response to online defamation and other behaviors that seriously disrupt the public order of the online society, it is recommended that the public security organs file an investigation on the "Hangzhou woman fetching express delivery rumors" case, promote the conversion of criminal private prosecution cases to public prosecution, and convey to the society that "cyberspace is not a place outside the law" Strong signal.
Adhere to the whole chain of crackdowns, increase the punishment for illegal provision of personal information, technical support, payment and settlement services, etc., and dig deeper into the upstream and downstream related criminal clues.
Zheng Xinjian said that since 2019, more than 11,000 cases of assistance in cybercrime activities, illegal use of information networks, and crimes of infringing on citizens' personal information have been prosecuted and more than 27,000 people have been prosecuted, effectively cutting off the black and gray industry chain of cybercrime.
Strengthen international judicial cooperation, and work with relevant departments to promote the handling of large-scale cross-border telecommunications network fraud criminal cases such as the "Great Wall Operation", and resolutely safeguard national security and social stability.
Zheng Xinjian pointed out that at the same time, in recent years, the Supreme People's Procuratorate has focused on new and frequent cyber crimes and has successively issued more than 60 guiding cases and typical cases. Through the release of these cases, the standards for the determination of evidence and the application of laws are clarified, the significance of education warnings behind the cases is revealed, and the clear stand that “crimes cannot be hidden in cyberspace” is reiterated to the whole society.