China News Service, Beijing, April 19 (Guo Chaokai) The national public security organs' special action deployment meeting to crack down on old-age fraud was held on the 19th, deploying public security organs at all levels to crack down on illegal and criminal old-age fraud in accordance with the law, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly.

It is understood that since 2017, public security organs across the country have cracked more than 4,500 pension fraud cases and arrested more than 11,000 criminal suspects.

  The Ministry of Public Security demanded that it should open up the road and take multiple measures to quickly set off a climax of the rectification work.

It is necessary to strengthen the detection of clues, widely mobilize the masses, strengthen the coordination of departments, and timely discover, verify and deal with the illegal and criminal clues of pension fraud.

Fraud, fund-raising fraud, illegal activities should be carried out in the name of providing "elderly care services", investing in "elderly care projects", selling "elderly care products", claiming "house-for-age care", acting as "endowment insurance", and carrying out "old-age assistance". Focus on absorbing public deposits, organizing and leading pyramid selling activities, contract fraud, manufacturing and selling fake and shoddy goods, and producing, selling, and providing counterfeit medicines, shoddy medicines and other types of illegal and criminal activities that infringe upon the property rights of the elderly. Existing cases, tackling fortified cases, and chasing down criminal suspects at large.

  The Ministry of Public Security requires that a number of major cases with serious circumstances and bad influence should be listed and supervised, and the pressure should be transmitted layer by layer, the responsibilities should be tightened, and practical results should be achieved in solving cases.

Attention must be paid to discovering and identifying possible underworld forces in pension fraud criminal gangs, and punishing them in accordance with the law in conjunction with the normalized fight against underworld and evil.

It is necessary to strictly regulate law enforcement, prevent and defuse risks, and ensure the unity of legal, political and social effects.

It is necessary to strengthen publicity and prevention, widely publicize typical cases of old-age fraud and crimes, expose criminal "routines", and improve the ability of the elderly to recognize and prevent fraud.

It is necessary to investigate the flow of funds of criminal suspects to the end, make every effort to recover the stolen goods and restore the losses, and minimize the losses of the victims.

It is necessary to strengthen organizational deployment, collaboration, supervision and assessment, pay close attention to various deployment and work measures, improve and improve the long-term mechanism, and ensure that special actions have achieved actual results.

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