Spanning Sichuan, Guangdong, Shandong and other regions, Deyang police dismantle a full-chain counte

Recently, the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Jingyang District Branch of the Deyang City Public Security Bureau used a suspicious package delivered at a logistics point as a breakthrough to crack the first case of manufacturing, selling and selling counterfeit fruit flavors across many provinces and cities across the countrye-cigarettesIn the case, a full-chain criminal gang of manufacturing and selling counterfeit goods consisting of raw materials and equipment supply, production and manufacturing, transportation of finished products, and terminal sales was eliminated. The gang spread to Sichuan, Guangdong, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places, involving a total amount of more than 6 million yuan.

Suspicious package at a logistics outlet

Pull out illegal sales networks in urban areas

On March 24, 2023, when the police of the Food, Drug and Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Jingyang District Branch of the Deyang City Public Security Bureau sorted out the information, they found a package in a express delivery outlet in a certain community on Longquanshan Road in the city was very suspicious. "This package has no sender and recipient information, only one contact number. This is abnormal and does not comply with relevant regulations." Subsequently, the brigade arranged for the police to continue to investigate relevant information on the package, and at the same time arranged for the police to rush to the express delivery outlet.

The police found that the only phone number of the person who picked up the package was related to a woman surnamed Tong who worked at an e-cigarette franchise store in the city. Subsequently, the police asked Tong to pick up the parcel in the name of a courier. Tong, who was in Shenzhen, asked his colleague Chen to come and pick up the parcel on his behalf. After Chen saw the police, his expression immediately became nervous. When the police saw this, he unpacked the suspicious package under his witness and found the #p#paginated title #e#inside the package More than 500 boxes of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes. The police brought Chen back for questioning on the spot.

According to Chen, his bosses Zhang and Guo opened trading companies in Deyang and Mianyang. Zhang arranged for Yuan and Zheng, the heads of Deyang, to open five e-cigarette franchises in Deyang City. Through open recruitment, she and more than 10 employees including Tong and Tang were recruited to sell e-cigarettes. "In order to seek high profits, they still sell them under the guise of 'national standard' e-cigarettes even though they know that the country does not allow the sale of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes." Police introduced.

The police immediately summoned Zhang and Tong to the case. Faced with the evidence obtained by the police, they confessed to the above behavior, and Zhang explained the purchase channels for the e-cigarettes he sold. Later, when the police investigated Zhang's family, they found that he had been captured by public security organs in other places not long ago.

What the police didn't expect was that During the sorting and summary of the case, another major clue was discovered...

The" careful thoughts "of two sales personnel

Lead out a nationwide criminal chain of manufacturing and sales

The police found that Tong's delivery logistics information and capital flow were actually different from the purchase channels and contact personnel explained by his boss Zhang, and suspected that Tong and Chen might have concealed something.“ We found that the superior family Tong contacted was Hou, a man from Shandong." The police immediately raided Tong. Seeing that the matter was exposed, Tong told her to collude with her colleague Chen to rely on the e-cigarette franchise store opened by her boss Zhang in the city to sell fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for Zhang. At the same time, he also privately sold fruit-flavored e-cigarettes from his own channels to make profits.

The police immediately launched an investigation around Hou and found that he was a native of Yantai, Shandong Province, and was only 19 years old. Because Hou was in a province and it was difficult to determine his whereabouts for a time, the police first listed him as an online fugitive to pursue him, and simultaneously carried out investigation work. In early June this year, Hou was arrested by a foreign public security agency and brought back by Jingyang police.

Behind the scenes, the boss is playing tricks

Was discovered by the police and finally arrested

After arriving at the case, Hou confessed to the crime of selling fruit-flavored e-cigarettes to Tong and others, and presented two suspects who had been detained by public security organs outside the province as his superiors. At the same time, Hou claimed to be a student and needed to return immediately to take important exams. Taking into account Hou's special circumstances, the brigade decided to take compulsory measures of bail pending trial on him first, and then let him return to his place of residence, and then return to continue the investigation after the examination.

" Later, we contacted Hou, but he refused with various reasons. After we investigated in depth, we found that he had not taken the exam at all. Instead, while awaiting bail, he purchased production line equipment worth more than 1 million yuan and more than 200 kilograms of fruit flavor in Shenzhenthe cartridgePrepare raw materials and transport them to Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province for the production and sales of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes. As of June 19, it has produced and sold fruit-flavored e-cigarettes worth millions of yuan." said the police.

Jingyang police set up a special task force and successfully arrested Hou. "We showed Hou the conclusive evidence he had. He finally admitted the fact of producing and selling fruit-flavored e-cigarettes while on bail. However, he did not truthfully explain his underground factory, associates, employees, and next house."

The task force rushed to Shijiazhuang City to carry out surveys in the areas they had learned in the early stages. "On the afternoon of June 23, we found an abandoned kindergarten that matched the location of the underground factory we knew. The investigators found that although the kindergarten was abandoned, its entrance was still equipped with a complete monitoring and access control system. They judged that there might be something fishy inside."

At about 16:00 p.m. that day, after deploying a strict arrest plan, the special case team quickly broke into the abandoned kindergarten and arrested the people on the spot. Seized 1 production line for manufacturing fruit-flavored e-cigarettes, 11 production equipment,#p#pagination title #e#smoke oilMore than 150 kilograms, more than 100,000 empty packaging boxes, more than 27000 boxes of finished fruit-flavored smoke bombs, a number of various production materials, and the amount involved was more than 6 million yuan.

At present, Hou, Tong, Chen, Zhang and others have been subject to criminal coercive measures in accordance with the law, and the case is still being further processed. (Videos and pictures provided by the police)