White Paper on Cybercrime Prosecution in Shanghai Released: 13 People Provided Assistance in Transferring Funds from Overseas Gambling Platforms, Sentenced
This afternoon, the "Bund Conference - Judicial Governance and Prosecutorial Sub Forum in the Digital Era" was held, hosted by the Shanghai People's Procuratorate and hosted by the Baoshan District People's Procuratorate. Experts and scholars from some universities, as well as leaders of relevant enterprises and industry associations, gave keynote speeches and discussions on topics such as big model technology in the new artificial intelligence era, the development of privacy computing industry, and legal challenges and responses in the digital age.
The forum also released the Shanghai Cybercrime Prosecution White Paper. From 2022 to June 2023, the procuratorial organs in the city accepted and reviewed 6312 cases and 9939 cases of cybercrime. From the perspective of case types, telecommunications network fraud and its upstream and downstream related crimes still account for the highest proportion, but the growth rate tends to be gradual; Internet intellectual property crime cases account for about 40% of network economic and financial crime cases, and the number of people involved Internet economic crime cases has declined. Although the proportion of cases infringing on citizens' personal information is not high, the number of cases has increased significantly.
The white paper points out that in recent years, cybercrime has been accompanied by new forms and technologies, and the black and gray industry chain has rapidly expanded, providing assistance for cybercrime such as transferring funds and money laundering. Last year, the Huangpu Procuratorate handled a case of aiding information network criminal activities. Yang and 13 others, knowing that the settlement account they applied for may be used for information cybercrime, still submitted their own or someone else's company business license, bank account, and recorded application videos to third-party payment platforms to open a large number of payment settlement accounts for others to use. Later, these accounts were obtained by a "score running" money laundering criminal gang to assist overseas online gambling platforms in settling illegal funds in bulk into the individual accounts of gamblers. After being prosecuted by the procuratorial organs, Yang and 13 others were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from 2 years to 8 months and fined by the court.
The emergence of these new business models and technologies has also made it more difficult to regulate network service platforms. During the process of handling cases, the procuratorial organs have found that many criminals use online service platforms to provide cover for their criminal behavior. For example, using the name of "attracting followers and attracting traffic" to publish and promote illegal traffic information, packaging DDoS software into network stress testing services, and so on. Although the Internet platform continues to invest funds to update and optimize the service audit mechanism, the effect is not obvious.
