Police in Guangyuan, Sichuan cracked a case of extraordinarily large-scale production and sale of fake pesticides and arrested 84 suspects.

  The Public Security Bureau of Cangxi County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province announced on the 14th that it had successfully detected a case of producing and selling fake and inferior products supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, destroyed 8 fake dens, arrested 84 suspects, seized a large number of property involved, and destroyed 11 sales network gangs in 31 provinces and cities, involving more than 120 million yuan.

  According to reports, the case is the "Kunlun — Since the "2022" special action, a case involving the largest amount of money involved, the largest number of people involved and the widest area involved has been cracked.

  The same frequency resonance shows "drug tumor"

  In July, 2021, several brands of suspected fake pesticides, such as "Lishuo brand with carbendazim in 1000g" and "Lishuo brand with mancozeb in 1000g", appeared sporadically in agricultural outlets of some towns and villages in Cangxi County, Guangyuan City. After identification by Sichuan Pesticide Testing Institute, such brand pesticides as carbendazim and mancozeb are indeed fake pesticides. The inflow of fake pesticides into the market will inevitably lead to crop reduction or even no harvest, which will have a serious impact on farmers’ income and rural revitalization.

  After receiving this clue handed over by Cangxi County Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Cangxi County Public Security Bureau immediately organized forces to carry out an investigation. The investigation found that the sales manager of Libang Agro-tech (Xi ‘an) Co., Ltd., nicknamed "Yan Yan" on WeChat (verified: Zhu Moumou, female, from Huaiyang District, Zhoukou, Henan Province), delivered the fake pesticide "Lishuo" to Cangxi through online shop sales and logistics, with sales of more than 150,000 yuan.

  Through the analysis of Zhu Moumou’s WeChat and bank transaction records, such fake pesticides have flowed to many places in the country, and there may be one or even more fake and fake gangs behind them. In this regard, Cangxi County Public Security Bureau reported this major case clue to Guangyuan City Public Security Bureau, and Guangyuan City Public Security Bureau immediately set up a task force to officially start case investigation.

  Patrol the line and trace the root rope "medicine source"

  Cangxi County Public Security Bureau took "Yan Yan", the sales manager of Libang Agro-technology (Xi ‘an) Co., Ltd., as the breakthrough point, and found that all drugs were mailed to Cangxi County by Cong Moumou, Zhao Moumou (Zhoukou, Henan) and others through Anneng Logistics by cash on delivery.

  The investigation by the public security organs found that Zhao Moumou and others have sold fake and inferior pesticides for more than 21,000 times in 24 provinces and cities including Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan and Hubei since January 2020, involving more than 58 million yuan. Among them, it has been sold to Guangyuan, Nanchong, Ziyang and other cities in Sichuan Province for more than 960 times, with a sales amount of more than 6 million yuan.

  In order to comprehensively collect evidence and form a tight chain of evidence, in late September 2021, Cangxi County Public Security Bureau and Cangxi County Agriculture and Rural Bureau formed a joint investigation team, focusing on the pesticides involved, sales personnel, sales quantity, sales amount and buyer information, etc. In-depth investigation, relevant fake and inferior pesticides were seized, and more than 20 sales personnel and 14 fake pesticide transporters were locked up.

  Thousands of miles to attack and dig "dens"

  Through the preliminary investigation, the public security organs found that there were many gangs producing and selling fake pesticides behind Zhao Moumou and Cong Moumou, and each gang had as few as 3 members and as many as 18 members. The members of the gangs had a clear division of labor in production, sales and transportation, and they had the characteristics of concealed production scale, networked manufacturing and selling forms, diversified varieties of fake drugs and national social harm. In order to achieve the social effect of attacking the source and the den, the task force sent an advance team to various places. With the strong support of the local public security organs, Zhao Moumou, Cong Moumou and others were guarded and secretly tracked for 24 hours, and the places where the suspects stored fake pesticides were accurately grasped.

  Attack on all fronts to catch the "thief head"

  So far, the public security organs have all found out the main fake dens, sales sources, sales networks, transportation chains and capital flows of the fake pesticide case, and they have the conditions to close the net. Recently, under the unified organization of Guangyuan City Public Security Bureau, the city’s public security organs organized more than 300 police officers to launch two centralized net-collecting operations against target dens and criminal suspects in Zhengzhou and Zhoukou, Henan Province. After more than 190 hours of hard work, 84 suspects were successfully arrested, 8 warehouses were destroyed, more than 80,000 bottles (bags) of finished and fake pesticides and more than 6,400 kilograms of raw materials for producing fake and fake pesticides were seized, and more than 5 million yuan of money involved in the case was recovered.

  At present, the case is still under investigation. (End)