Details disclosed: All connections rely on secret codes, Kunming police crack the illegal immigration case involving the Myanmar North Electricity Fraud Gang

The tempting recruitment information, which includes airfare, hotels, and high salaries of tens of thousands of yuan overseas, is actually a trap. In August this year, the police in Kunming, Yunnan, cracked a smuggling case involving a Burmese telecommunications fraud group, arrested 24 suspect, and destroyed a criminal group that organized smuggling by overseas remote control and domestic personnel.

Catch 24 suspect

Destroy the organization's illegal immigration gang

Yin Xuegang, a police officer from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Kunming Public Security Bureau, first discovered a clue that there was a "safe house" for illegal immigration at the foot of Xishan Mountain. Then they closely focused on the "safe house" to provide some intelligence clues. This situation was reflected in our detachment, and then we discovered that this place had been transporting illegal immigrants multiple times.

Given the significant nature of the case, the Kunming police quickly established a special task force to analyze and judge the case. Through clues, it was discovered that this hideout has organized multiple illegal immigration activities since the beginning of this year.

After mastering sufficient clues and evidence, on August 16, the Kunming police arrested Bai Mouwei, and then 24 suspect, including Zhao Mou and Gao Mouquan, who organized illegal immigration in China, were successively arrested, including 17 criminals and 8 vehicles involved. In addition, the Kunming police currently have 29 personnel in charge of managing overseas dens, of which 17 have been identified as true identities. The relevant deep excavation and arrest work is currently underway.

The first step in organizing illegal immigration

Make every effort to recruit domestic personnel

According to investigators, the illegal immigration gang organized 27 people to illegally cross the border from April to August this year, with most of them being transported to northern Myanmar and other places in just four months. And their first step in organizing illegal immigration is to do everything possible to recruit illegal immigrants.

Fu, from Yueyang, Hunan, was one of the arrested illegal immigrants. In July of this year, Fu saw an online recruitment message for overseas workers, which stated that working overseas earns high salaries and also includes food, accommodation, and transportation expenses, which made him very tempted.

Smuggler Fu: I want to try it out. If it's true, isn't it? With this mindset.

After contacting the other party, Fu claimed that he mainly went abroad as a "backpacker", which means smuggling goods from overseas to China, and the remuneration can reach tens of thousands of yuan at a time. Knowing that smuggling and illegal immigration are both illegal activities, but unable to resist the temptation of high remuneration, Fu decided to give it a try.

In mid August, four illegal immigrants arrived in Kunming, Yunnan, including Fu from Hunan, under the high salary deception of overseas wire fraud groups. Before departure, the organizers of the overseas fraud gang also asked them to upload a selfie video.

According to the police, in order to evade crackdown, the electronic fraud group has divided the entire illegal immigration chain into several nodes. Firstly, it is divided into two groups: overseas and domestic. As mentioned earlier, recruiting "illegal immigrants" online is the first step taken by overseas electronic fraud groups.

The second step is for the illegal immigration groups within the country to appear. Their job is to transport these people onto the illegal immigration route under the remote control command of the overseas organizers. They will search for a so-called "safe house" in advance to hide illegal immigrants, and then hire drivers to transport them to the border area. A dedicated person will be responsible for transporting them to the border villages. Then, under the guidance of local villagers, they will walk small roads, cross mountains and avoid border inspection stations, until they are sent to a fraud gang in a certain area in northern Myanmar.

In this process, members of the illegal immigration gang transport illegal immigrants in segments, batches, bypassing customs and avoiding checkpoints, and seek illegal benefits from them. The police have also disclosed the detailed process of the case to us.

Adopting methods such as segmented and batch immigration to evade police crackdown

According to the Kunming police, the evacuees who were lured in this case will first be arranged by the organizers to gather in a certain location in Kunming, and the person in charge of transportation is called Bai Mouwei, a criminal with a criminal record. He rented a so-called "safe house" in advance under the command of the online command within the country.

The police found that after Bai Mouwei concentrated the illegal immigrants, Zhao and Gao Mouquan, who were in Dehong, would hire drivers to transport these people from Kunming to the border area. As a result, Zhao and Gao Mouquan and others were able to receive a considerable commission.

The police investigation found that when these illegal immigrants are transported to places such as Dehong and Lincang, there will be someone specifically responsible for taking them to the border villages, where the villagers will lead them down, cross mountains, take small roads, and avoid border inspection stations. Finally, these deceived illegal immigrants will be sent to the hands of a fraud gang in a certain area in northern Myanmar.

Police disclose details: no face-to-face contact, all communication relies on secret codes

In movies and TV dramas, criminals often use secret signals when they make connections, and in actual cases, these criminal gangs rely entirely on secret signals to connect with each other. The police have also disclosed more details to us.

In order to reduce the risk of being hit by the police, the leaders of each link of the illegal immigration gang do not meet with each other, only connect through chat software and pay corresponding rewards. In addition, each illegal immigration personnel are also assigned a separate secret code, and the driver will only pick them up after verifying that the secret code is correct.

The organizer of illegal immigration within the country, Gao Mouquan, has a secret code to pick up illegal immigrants. Some of them may have a smooth journey or congratulations on getting rich, but this is not necessarily the case. Once we get through on the phone, sometimes we just ask the driver to tell them like this.

Zhao Tingmi, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Xishan Branch of Kunming Public Security Bureau: After they were transported to the border, they didn't see each other. Let me give you something. In the process of our case, they made a mark on the roadside of the highway and placed an umbrella or raincoat as a mark. There was a point dozens of kilometers below the toll station, and after you got off the person, I sent you a location. When you got to the location, you opened the car window, and I threw the money into your window.

Smuggling out of the country or organizing others

Smuggling and leaving the country all violate criminal law

I try my best to illegally cross the border, hoping to get rich, but once I cross the border, I end up on a path of no return. The police introduced that illegal immigrants lose their personal freedom from the moment they enter the electronic fraud center. They will be forced to carry out telecommunications network fraud activities, and during this period, not only will they not make money, but they will also be forced to sign IOUs one after another, accumulating debts and even being arbitrarily resold.

The police remind that the border cannot be illegally crossed, and maintaining national security is the duty of every citizen. Article 318 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China clearly stipulates that those who organize others to illegally cross the national border shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than two years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined; Article 322 stipulates that those who violate border management regulations and illegally cross the border, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than one year, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined.

We also remind you to further enhance your awareness of vigilance and risk prevention, and not to trust the carefully woven dream of going abroad to become rich by criminals. The so-called "high salary" and "fast money" may hide many traps, not only putting yourself in a dangerous situation, but also bearing legal responsibility for engaging in illegal activities such as illegal immigration and wire fraud.