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CTOnews.com news on December 11, according to Ping an Tongliao (official public platform of Tongliao Public Security Bureau), recently, the Horqin Branch of Tongliao Public Security Bureau, under the full guidance of the Economic investigation Unit of Inner Mongolia Autonomous region Public Security Bureau and the Economic investigation Detachment of Tongliao Public Security Bureau, deployed more than 200 police officers to 17 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government for three months. In one fell swoop, a large money laundering gang using the network block chain to exchange digital virtual currency was destroyed, 63 criminal suspects were arrested, 32 million yuan of cash involved in the case was seized, and the value of fixed assets involved was more than 1800 million yuan. the digital currency value of the block chain was seized and transferred to more than 7500 yuan, the funds involved were frozen more than 5 million yuan, and a total of 130 million yuan of illegal gains were seized.

▲ Tuyuan "Ping an Tongliao" Wechat Public account on July 15, 2022, the Joint Service Center of the Economic investigation Corps of the Public Security Bureau of Inner Mongolia Autonomous region issued an early warning to the Horqin Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Tongliao City: it was found that the capital flow of the construction bank card handled by the suspect Shi Mouyuan in the jurisdiction of the bureau was abnormal, with a monthly transaction volume of more than 1000 million yuan, suspected of money laundering.

After the previous research and judgment of the Joint Service Center of the Economic investigation Corps of the Public Security Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, it was found that the members of Shi Mouyuan gang involved many provinces and cities (autonomous regions), the participants were numerous, and the funds involved in the case were huge. The criminal gang used the blockchain to exchange virtual currency to help upstream criminal groups clean the funds involved in the case.

During the investigation of the case, the economic investigation unit of the Public Security Department and the economic investigation detachment of the Municipal Bureau guided and supported the case investigation work throughout the process, and the special case team of the branch started with the bank card involved in the case, conducted in-depth research and judgment, meticulously investigated and quickly found out and fixed the criminal organization structure of the people involved in the case, the whereabouts of the funds involved, the background data and the situation of operation and maintenance personnel, and so on.

On September 7, 2022, Horqin Branch mobilized 230 police officers and went to Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, Beijing, Hebei, Henan and other places to carry out centralized network collection operations. On October 13, 2022, under the forward command of Director Mou Dejun, and through the unremitting efforts of the "7.15 special case team", Zhang, the main suspect in the 7.15 project in Bangkok, Thailand, and Zhang Mouyang, a technical operation and maintenance staff, were persuaded to return home.

The whole chain of Horqin Sub-Bureau smashed a gang that used network block chains to exchange digital virtual currency, led by Ji, Wang and Zhang, arrested 63 criminal suspects, destroyed more than 10 money laundering points and ran into sub-hives, and collected a total of about 130 million yuan of illegal gains.

After investigation, it was found that the gang is a gang that uses digital virtual currency transactions to help criminal groups at home and abroad to launder money. The division of labor of the gang is clear. Starting from May 2021, criminal gangs led by suspects Ji, Zhang and Wang used overseas chat software aircraft (Telegram) to develop offline personnel to convert suspected online pyramid selling, fraud, gambling and other criminal funds through the wave field chain (USDT-TRC20) and Taifang chain (USDT-TRC20) into virtual digital currency Teda currency (USDT). Finally, many lawless people recruited through it are used to register anonymous blockchain account addresses and exchange RMB to pay the upstream criminal syndicate financiers to seize illegal benefits.

At the same time, the gang has shelters in many places across the country, and after completing the "receiving orders", the money laundering task will be assigned to local money laundering groups, and the group leaders will each recruit money launderers at the bottom to carry out money laundering operations online or offline. After each completion of the operation of a single money laundering business, gang leaders, group leaders, withdrawals, bottom money launderers and other levels will get a cut according to different proportions. The criminal group laundered as much as 12 billion yuan by means of virtual currency transactions.

The way of money laundering through virtual currency is relatively new, and it also brings great difficulty to handling cases. The relevant person in charge said: "because buying virtual coins anonymously and then selling them is tantamount to setting up a physical isolation, there is no way to query the capital flow or find the payee by traditional means, and the inquiry and transfer of virtual currency is also very complicated. it brings great difficulties to obtaining evidence, we use multiple means, such as interrogation of the case personnel, overseas digital currency exchange transfer, digital currency block chain tracking and so on. Finally, the case was successfully solved.

On October 24, 2022, the Bureau of Economic investigation of the Ministry of Public Security decided to launch a national cluster campaign against the 7.15 project investigated by Horqin Branch. At present, 63 suspects, including Ji, have been taken criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law, and the case is under further processing.

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