Sand mining gangs are crazy about stealing river sand and have a strong sense of anti-investigation. They use mobile phone ＂black cards＂ to escape punishment.

　　CCTV News:Recently, the police in Chizhou, Anhui Province successfully cracked a "mega-Yangtze River mining case" supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, and arrested 39 suspects. These criminals illegally mined river sand in the Yangtze River for a long time, destroying the ecological defense line of the Yangtze River.

　　During the patrol in June last year, the police of the Water Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Chizhou City, Anhui Province found that ships often worked at night in the 243 red floating waters of Meilong section of Chizhou, the Yangtze River.

　　Liu Daoming, police officer of Chizhou Public Security Bureau’s "609 Yangtze River Illegal Mining" task force: "When our patrol boats approached this area, the equipment and lights on these boats immediately went out. When we got nearby, these boats were already dispersed in a hubbub, so we suspected that there were illegal sand mining activities in this area."

　　Illegal modification of cargo ships and crazy exploitation of river sand

　　Illegal mining of river sand is a serious hazard. A local task force was set up. Through investigation of the police, it was found that there were two illegal sand mining gangs in Chizhou section of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province.

　　Liu Daoming, police officer of Chizhou Public Security Bureau’s "609 Yangtze River Illegal Mining" task forceThrough investigation, we found that there are about four or five sand mining boats carrying out illegal sand mining activities in the 243 waters behind me. They usually choose to sand around two or three o’clock at night, and each sand mining time usually lasts about two to three hours.

　　After investigation, these two illegal sand mining gangs, without the permission of the relevant departments, ignored the ecological environment balance of the Yangtze River and the national regulations on mineral resources management, and used illegally modified sand mining boats to steal river sand in this water area.

　　Hu Xiaohua, Deputy Director of the Water Branch of Chizhou Public Security Bureau and Deputy Head of the "609 Yangtze River Illegal Mining" Task Force.: "Four or five thousand tons of river sand can be hit every night. Sand hitting at night has an impact on the waterway, and passing ships can only collide. Criminal suspects who illegally play sand often steal river sand by the river embankment, which is easy to cause the river embankment to collapse. "

　　Gangs have a strong sense of anti-investigation and use cash transactions.

　　The police investigation found that the two criminal gangs, headed by Shi Moumou and Zhou Moumou respectively, had a clear division of labor, some were responsible for piracy, some were responsible for contacting transportation, and others were responsible for lookout, and they had strong anti-investigation awareness. Most of them used cash transactions when selling river sand, which made it difficult for the police to handle cases.

　　Chen Lei, police officer of Chizhou Public Security Bureau’s "609 Yangtze River Illegal Mining" task force: "When lookouts find out that our law enforcement boats or law enforcement officers are out of the law enforcement base, they will use flashlights on the shore and pass ‘ Sweep the lamp ’ The way to inform the accomplices on board and let them evacuate in time. "

　　Fang Rui, a policeman of the "609 Yangtze River Illegal Mining" task force of Chizhou Public Security Bureau.: "They often buy some phone cards that are not registered with their real names on the Internet, and then insert them into the mobile phones of the elderly, so that they can contact each other when committing crimes. Once law enforcement officers and law enforcement boats get on board and staff members board the ship for inspection, they will quickly and promptly throw the old mobile phones into the river in order to avoid punishment."

　　The main members of the gang were brought to justice and the money involved was more than 1.2 million yuan.

　　After nearly half a year’s investigation, the task force grasped a large amount of evidence and information. In September and October last year, respectively, the suspects Zhou Moumou and Shi Moumou and the main members of their criminal gangs were arrested and brought to justice, and more than 1.2 million yuan of money was seized, and four ships were seized. Each of these sand dredgers has a pipe leading to the bottom of the river.

　　Chen Zhou, a policeman of the "609 Yangtze River Illegal Mining" task force of Chizhou Public Security Bureau.: "We see that the diameter of this pipe is about 40 cm. Like a relatively small boat behind me, it can reach the bottom of the river and collect more than 100 tons of river sand every hour. Like some more powerful sand mining boats we seized, it can collect more than 1,000 tons of sand every hour."

　　In January this year, He Moumou, the last suspect of the illegal sand mining gang, was arrested and brought to justice. At present, 33 of the 39 suspects arrested in this mega-Yangtze River mining case have been transferred for suspected illegal mining.