According to a recent report by Red Star News, the police in Wuwei, Gansu successfully cracked a case involving the production and sale of counterfeit e-cigarettes, dismantling a criminal gang located in a certain location in Shenzhen and arresting 22 suspects. The case involved a total amount of 110 million yuan (about 15 million USD).
In mid-September 2023, the Economic Investigation Detachment of the Wuzhou Public Security Bureau received a tip and quickly established a special task force to investigate a full-chain production and sale of counterfeit e-cigarettes. Through detailed analysis, the police discovered that the case involved a large amount of money and a large number of suspects, prompting immediate action to file a case for investigation.
According to the Wuwei police, the special task force has investigated a complete criminal gang in a certain area of Shenzhen through a large amount of information and evidence collection in various parts of the country. The gang members have clear division of labor, do not meet in person, use illegal overseas chat software to convert large transactions into virtual currency accounts in order to evade detection.
The special task force conducted a series of targeted operations across dozens of provinces and cities nationwide, successfully capturing the criminal suspects and dismantling 3 illegal e-cigarette production sites, 3 storage sites, and 6 sales points. The items seized from these sites included 0.28 million e-cigarettes, 293,400 vape cartridges, 165 kilograms of e-liquid, 3.21 million packaging boxes, 2 computers, 1 e-liquid filling machine, 1 e-cigarette mold, 2 manual presses, 10 bank cards, 27 mobile phones, and over 10,000 RMB in illicit funds. The seized e-cigarette products were valued at over 8.83 million RMB.
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