Anti-Organized Crime Law Will Be Implemented Chinese Prosecutors Focus on Underworld Organised Crime Cases

  China News Agency, Beijing, April 27 (Reporter Zhang Su) The Supreme People's Procuratorate of China announced on the 27th its deployment for the normalized work of fighting against gangsters and evil this year.

Among them, it is clear that the prosecution should take the handling of underworld organized crime cases as the most important task and make unremitting efforts.

  The Anti-Organized Crime Law will come into force on May 1, 2022. This legal system summarizes the practical experience of the special fight against gangsters and evil.

  The head of the Office of the Leading Group of the Supreme People's Procuratorate's Struggle against Underworld and Evil, said that the prosecution will focus on implementing the new law and build a prevention and governance mechanism to prevent organized crime from invading campuses, underworld forces eroding and infiltrating grassroots organizations, Organized crime breeds in key industries, and public officials act as "protective umbrellas".

  Specifically, the Supreme People's Procuratorate will actively participate in the rectification of education, medical care, financial lending, and market circulation in the new four major industries, combined with the pursuit of "fish that slip through the net", and deepen the rectification of underworld crimes in the natural resource fields such as "sand tyrants" and "mine tyrants". , Internet-related underworld crimes and other special actions, review and handle a number of influential underworld criminal cases in related fields.

  In addition, the prosecution will continue to crack down on "village tyrants" to prevent underworld forces, clan and clan forces from eroding and affecting rural grassroots political power.

  Starting this year, prisoners who were sentenced to light sentences for being accomplices or coercing accomplices in the special fight against gangsters and evil will be released after serving their sentences.

The prosecution will supervise and do a good job in the placement and education of released prisoners.

  At the same time, in order to prevent prisoners from committing crimes again, the prosecution will also explore the establishment of a database of files and databases of prisoners who have committed underworld crimes in the region.

  Regarding the "difficulties" in handling cases such as property identification and disposal of criminal cases involving underworld crimes, the person in charge said that it is necessary to increase the supervision over the execution of "underworld" and increase the handling of crimes involving underworld money laundering. According to the relevant provisions of the Organized Crime Law, “strictly distinguish between illegal gains and legal property, personal property and property of family members, safeguard the legal property rights and interests of citizens and organizations, and reduce the adverse impact on the normal business activities of enterprises”.

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