Hong Kong smugglers Li Shen, Zhang Yi, Deng Chong 'an and Chen Lisheng colluded with mainland smugglers Chunhua Lin, Jiang Liansheng and Li Yong. During the period from the beginning of 1996 to1July 1998, he paid bribes to the staff of Zhanjiang Customs, Frontier Defense and other departments, and took such measures as underreporting, misrepresenting the name of the goods, directly taking delivery without inspection, and falsely returning the goods.
Among them, Li Shen participated in the smuggling of more than 3,800 cars (including car bodies), 6,543,809 tons of steel, 40,000 tons of diesel and 6,543,800 tons of raw sugar, and evaded taxes of more than 400 million yuan. Zhang Yi participated in the smuggling of more than 3,200 cars (including car bodies), 6,543,807 tons of steel, 30,000 tons of diesel, 6,543,800 tons of raw sugar and 50,000 tons of soybeans, and evaded the tax payable of 420 million yuan. Deng Chong 'an participated in the smuggling of more than 1,000 car bodies 1 0, and evaded the tax payable10.70 billion yuan. Chunhua Lin participated in smuggling more than 750,000 tons of refined oil, and evaded 340 million yuan of tax payable. Chen Lisheng participated in smuggling more than 0.9 million sets of automobile body/KLOC-0 and 40,000 tons of diesel oil, and evaded the tax payable of 654.38+0.8 billion yuan. Jiang Liansheng participated in smuggling more than 740,000 tons of refined oil, and evaded 340 million yuan of tax payable. Li Yong participated in smuggling steel 1 10000 tons, diesel oil 40000 tons and raw sugar over 2400 tons, and evaded the tax payable of 76 million yuan.
1On June 7, 1999, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court made a judgment and sentenced Chen Tongqing, former party secretary of Guangdong Provincial Forestry Department and former secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Committee, to death, suspended for two years and deprived of political rights for life. In September, 2000, Guangdong Higher People's Court made a final judgment on Ye Zhencheng, the last principal in Zhanjiang's extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case and the former deputy mayor of Zhanjiang, dismissed Ye Zhencheng's appeal and upheld his first-instance judgment of imprisonment 12 years for accepting bribes. At this point, this sensational smuggling and bribery case finally settled. The case involved * * * 33 1 person, including 259 public officials. From 1996 to 1998 before the crime, they smuggled 15670 vehicles (sets), 165438+ more than one million tons of steel.
Since 1990s, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province has been a region with frequent smuggling cases. In the meantime, although the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government have held anti-smuggling work meetings for many times, deployed special anti-smuggling struggles, and constantly intensified anti-smuggling efforts, since 1996, smuggling activities in this area have not only been repeatedly banned, but have intensified, becoming a "smuggler's paradise". Several big criminal gangs have been making a fortune here by smuggling for years. They colluded with each other and dispersed their operations. They use money and women to win over and corrupt the leaders and professionals of administrative law enforcement departments and the main leaders of local party and government, ignoring national laws, smuggling at will and profiteering. Among them, three criminal gangs headed by Li Shen, Zhang Yi, Chunhua Lin, Deng Chong 'an and Chen Lisheng are the most rampant.
Among the leaders of criminal gangs, Chen Lisheng, known as the "king of car smuggling", has the deepest "water" and the most background, because his father is Chen Tongqing, former secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Committee. After Chen Lisheng graduated from Beihang University on 1987, relying on Chen Tongqing's power and influence, he first went to Hong Kong to go through fake procedures and became a Hong Kong resident. Later, he returned to Zhanjiang to set up a fake joint venture company and smuggled wildly, earning hundreds of millions of property in a few years. 1At the beginning of 996, Chen Lisheng, Deng Chong 'an and Li Shen conspired to smuggle cars in Hong Kong to make profits. Deng Chongan is responsible for organizing the supply of goods and the disassembly, coding and packaging of the whole vehicle. Chen Lisheng is responsible for customs declaration in Hong Kong, exporting, loading and receiving smuggled goods at Zhanjiang Wharf, and handing them over to Deng Chongan or other smugglers. Shen Li and Zhang Yi are responsible for clearing the customs declaration, charging customs clearance fees of 70,000 to 654.38 million Hong Kong dollars per container. What they often use in smuggling is to falsely report the name and quantity of the goods. For example, on February 29th, 1996, 12 container was used to transport 68 cars to Zhanjiang port and declare them as auto parts. Only this item evaded the tax payable130,000 yuan.
Chunhua Lin is one of the most nouveau riche leaders of criminal gangs. He has only received primary education. In the 1980s, he was a salesman of a company in a county in Guangdong. With his agility and courage, he dares to take risks. In a few years, he made a fortune by smuggling and became the "king of oil smuggling" in Zhanjiang. His smuggled oil accounts for more than 85% of Zhanjiang's smuggled oil. Some people describe it this way: If Chunhua Lin becomes powerful, even the cars of the local public security bureau will run out of gas. He registered eight companies in China and smuggled refined oil by means of not declaring customs, falsely reporting commodity names, underreporting and importing more. For example, on July 26th, 1997, Chunhua Lin smuggled 2 1879 tons of light diesel oil. After the tanker arrived at Zhanjiang Port, Lin Buyong, the staff of the Commodity Inspection Bureau, changed the product name to fuel oil and the quantity to 1576 tons, so as to declare the customs, and the tax payable was 9.47 million yuan.
In order to make huge profits, he invested hundreds of millions of yuan to buy four oil tankers for smuggling, built his own wharf, owned a storage company specializing in oil storage and owned 20 large oil tanks, realizing Jackie Chan's complete set of transportation, storage and sales of smuggled oil. 19971From October to July, Chunhua Lin gathered Jiang Liansheng and others to smuggle 44 ships and 753,800 tons of refined oil, and evaded the tax payable of 347 million yuan. The amount of refined oil he smuggled is equivalent to 1997, which is110 of the total import of gasoline and diesel in China. The smuggled refined oil products he sold to Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces made the state-owned oil enterprises struggling and suffered huge losses.
Shen Li and Zhang Yi are the most arrogant smuggling gangs in Zhanjiang. Shen Li's car number in Zhanjiang is "1111",which shows Li Shen's arrogance and strength. Li Shen's car is hung with Li Yong's license plate. 1996 At the beginning of this year, Shen Li and Zhang Yi met Cao Xiukang, Commissioner of Zhanjiang Customs in Zhanjiang. Soon after, they dragged Cao into the water with Zhang Yi's hue. Later, Li and Zhang Cheng set up a "Zhongzheng Trading Company" in Zhanjiang Technological Development Zone, which was not registered in the administrative department for industry and commerce, specializing in smuggling activities. They have used various means to get through all key positions in important law enforcement departments such as customs, frontier defense, commodity inspection and ports. At the time of customs declaration, they evaded supervision and tax evasion by reporting less and importing more, lying about the name of the goods, taking delivery directly without inspection, making false returns, and making false verification. After the smuggler's cargo ship arrived at Zhanjiang Port, Zhongzheng Company was solely responsible for customs declaration, and Shen Li and Zhang Yi shared the stolen goods and collected customs clearance fees. According to statistics, Zhongzheng Company almost monopolized the customs declaration business of Zhanjiang smugglers at that time. Li and Zhang denied the money, but the actual price is clear: a smuggled car needs to pay a customs clearance fee of HK$ 30,000, a ton of smuggled steel needs to pay a customs clearance fee of RMB 260 yuan, and a ton of smuggled refined oil needs to pay about RMB 180 yuan. Even Chen Lisheng, the "son" of the Party Secretary, must be declared by Zhongzheng Company, and the customs clearance fee must be paid in full. Some smugglers do not believe in evil, find their own way and declare their own customs. After hearing the news, Li and Zhang colluded with the relevant law enforcement departments to recover the goods that had been declared and released. Li Shen is called "the king of customs declaration", worthy of the name. Li Yong, a subordinate of Li Shen, even set up an auction house in cooperation with the Anti-smuggling Bureau and the Public Security Frontier Branch in Chikan District of the city. In this way, Li Shen gangs formed a one-stop operation of smuggling, customs clearance, auction and confiscation of smuggled goods. Although the three smuggling criminal gangs are fragmented and decentralized, they collude with each other and go hand in hand. Shen Li and his gang are not satisfied with customs declaration, but also cooperate with Chen Lisheng and Deng Chong 'an to smuggle cars and refined oil. Chunhua Lin relies on Shen Li and Zhang Yi for customs clearance, but when gangs in Li Shen encounter difficulties in smuggling petroleum products, he will also help them.
Smuggling disturbs the normal economic order and seriously affects economic development. According to estimates, in just two or three years, the value of smuggling cases in Zhanjiang has exceeded 654.38+0 billion yuan, and tax evasion should be more than 6 billion yuan. Sugar industry is a pillar industry in Zhanjiang. During the crop season of 1994- 1995, the city still made a profit of1500 million yuan. However, due to the smuggling of raw sugar, 1995- 1996 lost 40 10/00000 yuan, and 1996- 1997 lost 596 million yuan. The rampant smuggling activities have corrupted the social atmosphere, affected social stability, bred corruption, corroded and destroyed a number of cadres. The "9898" case involved more than 200 public officials, including bureau-level cadres 12, department-level cadres 45 and department-level cadres 53. Smuggling has seriously damaged the image of the party and the government.
To be fair, before 1996, although smuggling activities in Zhanjiang were frequent, it did not develop to the serious point where the country was wide open, and smugglers did not dare to do whatever they wanted in front of a relatively stable country.
Some city leaders and key department heads headed by Chen Tongqing, secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee, are seriously corrupt and act as umbrellas for smugglers. Some leaders are involved in smuggling, which is one of the reasons for the rampant smuggling activities in this area in the past two years.
Since Chen Guoqing took charge of Zhanjiang in 1992, he has been pursuing pleasure, not making progress, and gradually degenerated. He drank too much wine and was called "Secretary of the Blue Ribbon". He also tried his best to use his power to sell officials and titles and trade power and money. 1June 1994 to1July 1998, Chen Tongqing took advantage of his position to accept other people's property by means of promotion, transfer and job arrangement, amounting to RMB11000000. How can such a greedy party secretary seriously deploy anti-smuggling work? !
Besides, in smuggling activities, Chen Tongqing is not a die-hard, and his son Chen Lisheng is known as the "smuggling king". During his tenure, Chen Tongqing actually acted as an umbrella for Chen Lisheng's smuggling activities: in order to find a way out for Chen Lisheng's smuggled goods, Chen Tongqing did not hesitate to call and pull strings everywhere; In order to make his son have enough smuggling funds, he exerted influence and asked Zhanjiang Municipal Government to come forward to guarantee the Chen Lisheng company's loan of HK$ 40 million in overseas banks.
"fish begins to stink at the head", under the influence of Chen Tongqing, some government officials in Zhanjiang also joined the smuggling crime of "quick success and instant benefit". Yang Quqing, the former vice mayor, participated in smuggling, and his personal money was 400,000 yuan. During his tenure, he also accepted bribes from 540,000 families in Li Shen; Binglin Zheng, director of the Municipal Anti-smuggling Office, personally coordinated privatization and accepted the bribe of Li Yong, a partner of Li Shen. Xiashan district State Taxation Bureau and smuggler Chunhua Lin set up a company in partnership to provide them with false VAT invoices so that smuggled oil can be legally sold.
As we all know, customs, frontier defense, public security, commodity inspection, ports and other administrative law enforcement departments are all guardians of the country's normal import and export trade. They jointly guard the Great Wall of Economy, and any department with loopholes will bring endless disasters to the country. Facts have proved that the weakness of law enforcement and supervision departments and even collusion with smugglers is another reason for the proliferation of smuggling in Zhanjiang.
Cao Xiukang, Commissioner of Zhanjiang Customs,1was transferred from the General Administration of Customs to Zhanjiang Customs in August 1995, and196 fell at Zhang Yi's feet in early 1996. He gave Zhang Yi whatever he wanted and listened to whatever he said, forgetting all about party spirit and revolutionary principles. Li Shen and Zhang Yi's "Zhongzheng Company" was established less than 10 days ago, and Cao Xiukang agreed to enjoy the preferential policy of "releasing first and collecting later". For more than two years, after the smuggled goods of "Zhongzheng Company" were seized by other customs, Cao Xiukang pleaded in person or by phone, and actively ran for Zhang Yi. By virtue of the special relationship between Zhang Yi and Cao, Zhang Yi's criminal gang threatened and lured Zhanjiang Customs officers: collaborating with polluters to invest heavily; Those who dare to uphold justice secretly tell Cao Xiukang to "work hard", transfer from his original post and take revenge. For a time, Zhanjiang Customs was smoky and everyone was in danger. Cao Xiukang is not only lustful, but also greedy for money. Yang Quqing, the former vice mayor, collaborated with others to smuggle wheat and rapeseed. Yang paid a bribe of 2 million yuan to Cao, and Cao accepted it frankly. He also accepted bribes from Li Shen, Zhang Yi and others for more than ten times, totaling more than 400,000 yuan.
Due to the fall of Cao Xiukang, the heads of some key positions of Zhanjiang Customs have also fallen. For example, Zhu Xiangcheng, director of the investigation department, not only showed extra-legal kindness to smuggling gangs, but also revealed to them the deployment of the General Administration of Anti-smuggling. To this end, he accepted a bribe of 2.8 million yuan from smugglers. After the incident, there are still more than 3.4 million yuan in the family that cannot explain the legal source. Peng Fang, director of the Customs Port Office, turned a blind eye to smuggling at the request of smuggling gangs and disclosed the smuggling information of the General Administration to them. He has repeatedly accepted bribes from Li Shen, Zhang Yi, Chunhua Lin and others, totaling RMB 654.38+700,000.
While the customs was out of control, with the help of smuggling gangs, some people in the frontier defense, public security, marine police, commodity inspection, port and shipping departments at Zhanjiang Port also took bribes for their own interests, letting themselves drift, protecting smugglers and escorting them. In more than two years, Li Shen, Zhang Yi, Chunhua Lin and others paid bribes of more than 7 million yuan to public officials. After the smuggling ship is detained by Zhanjiang Frontier Branch, it can be released smoothly as long as it pays a certain sponsorship fee and gives some extra benefits to the director Deng Ye and the political commissar Chen En. After accepting bribes, the person in charge of the port and dock dared to let the smugglers take all the smuggled goods away from the dock for sale without any customs clearance certificate. After being bribed, the salesman of the shipping company took the initiative to change the manifest and bill of lading for the smuggling gang, forged and concealed the name and quantity, deceived the customs, evaded the license management and paid less taxes. A few people in the commodity inspection department issued false certificates for smuggled goods to make them legally sold in China.
65438+1At the beginning of September, 1998, shortly after the Central Conference on Combating Smuggling, the masses exposed the rampant smuggling activities in Zhanjiang. Leading comrades of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to this, and decided that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection would take the lead, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and Guangdong Province would form a leading group to investigate and deal with the extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery cases in Zhanjiang.
Immediately, discipline inspection, public security, procuratorial, customs, auditing and other departments formed a working group with the participation of relevant central and local departments. Groups of case handlers went to Zhanjiang, carefully formulated various action plans, and quickly launched various investigations and evidence collection work, which opened the prelude to the detection of extraordinarily serious cases.
1September 1998 16, according to the arrangement of the leading group, the public security and procuratorial organs of Guangdong province launched the first major action on this case, and arrested the main members of the smuggling gang according to conclusive evidence. The public security organs launched an all-out attack and arrested smugglers such as Chunhua Lin, Li Shen, Chen Lisheng, Zhang Yi and Li Yong in Shanghai, Guangxi and Guangdong. At the same time, the procuratorial organs took compulsory measures against six people, including Cao Xiukang, former director of Zhanjiang Customs, and Deng Ye, former director of Zhanjiang Frontier Branch, which laid an important foundation for a breakthrough in the whole case.
There are more than 300 people involved in the smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang, so it is extremely important to pay attention to the handling strategy. After the working group entered Zhanjiang, according to the actual situation, it adhered to the principle of proceeding from reality and clearly focused on cracking down on gang leaders, backbones and leading cadres among law enforcement and supervision personnel who accepted bribes and colluded with smuggling groups; For most ordinary people who have made such mistakes, as long as they truthfully confess their problems to the organization and withdraw their illegal income, they will implement a leniency policy.
1998 10 10 On 8 October, Zhanjiang Customs held a general meeting of all cadres, and the leading bodies of the political and legal organs of Guangdong Province and relevant responsible persons announced on the spot that they would honor the policy of combining leniency with severity. Zhan XX, deputy chief of the Customs Container Supervision Section, took the initiative to explain the problem and actively returned the stolen goods. Although the amount of bribes was large, he was still treated leniently and was released on bail pending trial. Three other customs officers were found to have serious economic problems, concealed the situation and had a bad attitude, and were announced on the spot to be put into prison according to law. After the meeting, while the iron was hot, the working group held a mobilization meeting in customs subordinate offices, port authority, commodity inspection bureau and other units to publicize policies and urge a large number of people who violated discipline and law to take the initiative to explain the problem. 1998165438+1the climax of the problem of voluntary confession appeared in mid-October, and the case handlers received an average of one million yuan in refund every day. 10 found that the smuggling case was worth more than 300 million yuan. Due to the correct decision to crack down on the minority and educate and liberate the majority, the work has been in place. More than 160 people have voluntarily confessed their problems and collected the illegal money of160,000 yuan, which fully won the time for handling cases and won the initiative.