In order to further promote the "Hundred Days Operation" of public security crackdown and rectification in summer, the Ministry of

Public Security recently organized and directed the public security organs of eight provinces of Hubei, Sichuan, Hebei, Hunan, Hainan, Yunnan, Shaanxi and Jiangxi to work together to crack down on two criminals who committed fraud against the elderly. The criminal gang launched a centralized network collection operation, successfully destroyed 15 fraud dens, arrested more than 170 criminal suspects, and initially

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hundreds of cases across the country, involving an amount of more than 100 million yuan.

  Since April this year, the public security organs in Yichang, Hubei have successively received reports from a number of elderly people, claiming to have purchased high-priced health care products and suspecting that they have been deceived.

The public security organ immediately organized a verification investigation and found that since 2015, the criminal suspect Pan established a health food company and a health management company one after another. Taking free gifts as bait, he tricked the elderly into participating in the event by distributing leaflets and telephone interviews. The promotion of health products held by the company to implement health product fraud.

In order to fight crime in the whole chain, Yichang public security organs immediately set up a special team to carry out special investigation, and initially found out that the health care products sold by Pan and others came from two criminal gangs in Chengdu, Sichuan.

  It is understood that the above-mentioned criminal gangs have established two companies in Chengdu, and developed a large number of offline companies in Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places, specifically targeting the elderly to commit fraud, and Pan and others are their offline.

The criminals trained local "salesmen" by compiling language skills, dispatching lecturers, etc., and under the banner of jointly holding activities with "scientific research institutions", they fabricated and exaggerated the efficacy of the health care products such as Ejiao paste, bird's nest, and cordyceps powder they sold. Brainwashing the elderly by forging expert identities and inspection certificates, tricking them into buying products at a price more than 10 times higher, and deceiving more than 100,000 people.

In view of the seriousness of the case, the large number of people involved, and the wide area involved, the Ministry of Public Security attached great importance to it, and listed it as a case under the supervision of the "Hundred Days Action" for public security crackdown and rectification in summer. Centralized collection of the Internet, successfully destroyed the fraud dens, frozen more than 34.5 million yuan of funds involved in the case, sealed up and detained a large number of assets involved in the case, and arrested all the main suspects such as Song Mouhui and Wang Moucheng, the actual controllers of the two companies in Chengdu, and severely cracked down on criminals Arrogance.

  The relevant person in charge of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security stated that the public security organs will follow the requirements of the mobilization and deployment meeting of the "Hundred Days Action" to crack down on public security in the summer, adhere to the problem-oriented approach, take thunderous methods, and always focus on infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of the people and affecting the people. All kinds of illegal crimes with a sense of security, effectively maintain a good social order, and continuously enhance the people's sense of security.

  (CCTV reporter Zhang Gang)