FBIS4-2931
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FBIS-CHI-94-073
Daily Report
15 Apr 1994
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Political & Social
Crime and Punishment in the PRC 29 Mar-15 Apr
Crime and Punishment in the PRC 29 Mar-15 Apr
HK1504083694
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[Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of
reports on crime, investigations, trials, sentencings, and other
judicial- related activities in the PRC during the period 29
March to 15 April. The source and mode of processing are given
in parentheses at the end of each entry. Certain reports deemed
more significant may have been filed separately, in which case
the summary will include the serial number of the separately
filed item.
International
Transnational Drug Trafficking Ring Broken Up
The city of Liuzhou broke up a major transnational drug
trafficking ring, which brought drugs into China from Burma via
Yunnan. Police arrested 13 criminals, of whom two were Burmese,
and seized some 2.8 kg of heroin and 30,000 yuan in drug money,
as well as 280,000 yuan and $500 in counterfeit banknotes
[Summary] [Hong Kong WEN WEI PO in Chinese 27 Mar 94 p a3 --
HK0504115494]
Pakistani Expelled for Traveler's Check Fraud
On 10 April, the Guangdong Public Security Department
escorted a Pakistani called Abud Gehav, who held a counterfeit
passport, to Guangzhou's Baiyun airport, expelled him, and
declared that he is not allowed to re-enter the country for the
next five years. On 28 July 1993 Abud cashed nine U.S.
dollar-denominated traveler's checks (which had been reported
lost), at the Bank of China branch in Guangzhou, receiving 2,395
yuan in foreign exchange certificates. On the same day, he went
to another Bank of China counter at a hotel to cash his six
remaining checks. This time he failed and was arrested on the
spot. On 22 March 1994 he was convicted of swindling. Abud
accepted the verdict and had no plan to appeal. [Summary] [Hong
Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE 0552 GMT 11 Apr 94]
Taiwanese Businessman, Partner Abandon Debt-Ridden Company
Cai Shunming -- owner of the Daguang Paper Product Company
Limited, a Fuzhou Taiwan-capital enterprise -- and his mainland
partner disappeared on 1 April leaving 500,000 yuan in debts
behind them. Police believe they have not left mainland and are
looking for them. The company is a sole-capital enterprise with
$150,000 in registered capital, employing about 300 workers to
produce tin foil used for religious worship, which is exported
to Taiwan and South East Asia. On 31 March, Cai halted
production for six days, claiming them as holidays, but the 60
workers remaining behind discovered that Cai had gone. The
company owed the workers two months' pay, 110,000 yuan in rent,
and some 200,000 yuan of payment in goods. [Summary] [Hong Kong
TA KUNG PAO in Chinese 11 Apr 94 p. 2]
National
Concern Over Secret Societies
An article in the latest issue of ZHONGHUA WENZHAI (CHINA
DIGEST) revealed that the Central Commission on Politics and Law
paid special attention to the activities of secret societies in
China and took them as one of the ten major targets of the
anticrime action. The Ministry of State Security also took
organized crime as a highly dangerous phenomenon to be brought
under strict supervision and control. The ministry has launched
three major campaigns against secret societies: From Shaoyang
in the south, to Harbin in the north. and to Lintong in the
west. The article, entitled "Are There Mafias in China?"
revealed that hundreds of criminal gangs often fought each other
openly in the streets of Shaoyang, western Hunan. The 1991
anticrime campaign solved 4,041 cases, including 1,096 major
ones; eliminated 801 criminal gangs; and arrested 6,175
gangsters, including 1,299 backbone members of the gangs in
Shaoyang. The crime syndicates in Harbin operated as business
enterprises, controlling the construction market in the city.
The article also revealed that crime syndicates in China were
involved in international criminal activities, such as drug
trafficking and counterfeiting. [Summary] [Beijing ZHONGGUO
XINWEN SHE in Chinese 1118 GMT 10 Apr 94]
Provincial
Beijing
Policeman Sentenced for Beating Inhabitant
A few days ago, a policeman named Zhang, of Beijing's
Haiding
Public Security Sub Bureau, was sentenced by the Haiding
People's Court to one year imprisonment, with a one-year
reprieve, for deliberately beating an inhabitant. The accused
also had to pay the economic loss incurred by the injured
victim, who was having a quarrel with the conductor while
traveling on a bus. This is the first sentence passed on a
Beijing policeman for beating another person while on duty.
[Summary] [Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE 0942 GMT 7 Apr 94]
Fujian
Quanzhou Uncovers Illegal Arms Sales
From January this year to the present, the Quanzhou public
security organs cracked 5 cases of illegal arms sales, of which
one was the largest in years. The Quanzhou public security
organs first cracked an arms sales case in Nanan, by
intercepting the ammunition delivered by the culprits via
express mail. The public security organs took note of this
crime and called on post offices throughout the city to heighten
vigilance. By the end of last month, the public security bureau
of Licheng district discovered 50 pellet rifles and 100 boxes of
pellets in a parcel. They immediately arrested both the sender
and recipient. The official in charge of the case said it was
the largest one in the city over the past 45 years. [Text]
[Hong Kong WEN WEI PO 23 Mar 94 p. b14]
Government, Army Join Forces Against Bogus Military Licenses
Recently, Fujian's military command and government have
undertaken joint operations to retrieve all expired military
vehicle license plates. According to sources, the abuse of
military vehicle license plates has been rather serious in
Guangdong, Fujian, and Guangxi in recent years. Some people
spend tens of thousands of yuan to get a military or armed
police license plate "for show," while government officials do
not have to spend even a cent. There usually are two ways to
get license plates from military or armed police units: First,
the Army grants one or two license plates to an enterprise
jointly run by the military and the local government; second,
the license plates are for rent. Beginning 11 April, the public
security department, armed police corps, and various military
units in Fujian began to carry out inspections and to ban the
use of military license plates on non-military vehicles.
[Summary] [Hong Kong MING PAO in Chinese 26 Mar 94 p a13]
50,000 Cases of Counterfeiting Cigarettes Solved in 1993
According to Fujian Tobacco Bureau chief Jiang Chengkang, in
1993, Fujian cracked some 50,000 cases of manufacturing and
selling counterfeit cigarettes, destroying more than 2 million
packs. According to incomplete statistics, more than 120 illegal
cigarette factories and 222 illegal cigarette workshops were
shut down in 1993. Counterfeit famous-brand cigarettes can be
found everywhere in Fujian. Jiang said the reason counterfeit
cigarettes cannot be thoroughly eradicated is that law is not
enforced strictly and that some local governments even shield
illegal cigarette factories because they turn over large amounts
of taxes and profits. He said that the smuggling of imported
cigarettes decreased last year, as people had regained
confidence in Chinese brands. [Summary] [Hong Kong WEN WEI PO
in Chinese 30 Mar 94 p b19]
Guangdong
Shenzhen Handles Corruption Cases
Mayor Li Youwei yesterday disclosed that among Shenzhen
government officials who have absconded with public funds, more
than 40 are still at large. In 1993, 21 people who escaped with
money to places outside the border were brought back. This
batch, plus those who have been brought back over the past
several years, pushed the number to more than 40, half of them
escaping with money. Some of them were brought back from the
countries that have no diplomatic relations with China. He
estimated that all the escapees had traveled through Hong Kong.
He said that the 1994 budget for the police, judiciary, and
procuratorate is 208 million yuan -- a 32.5 percent increase
over 1993 -- and this sum does not include wages and equipment
fees for the personnel in these departments. [Summary] [Hong
Kong MING PAO in Chinese 24 Mar 94 p a10]
Last year, the supervision organ in Shenzhen handled 118
cases of malpractice and corruption involving state
functionaries, and 17 people were brought to the judicial
organs. In order to effectively prevent corruption, governments
at various levels in Shenzhen have established an anticorruption
responsibility system. [Summary] [Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN
SHE in Chinese 0750 GMT 22 Mar 94]
Criminal Arrested for Stock Transactions Using Stolen Codes
On 22 March, a stock organization in Guangzhou used a newly
designed alarm program to solve a case of using high technology
to steal secret codes in order to steal and sell stocks. The
case occurred on 14 March in the Guangzhou Stock Business
Department of the Shenzhen International Credit, Trust, and
Investment Corporation. When a stock trader made phone call
entrusting the department with a transaction in Shenzhen stocks,
he discovered that his secret trading code had been changed and
that someone had bought on his behalf 10 lots of "Shenbaoheng"
at 10.9 yuan per share and sold them later at 10.85 yuan per
share. Within a dozen days or so, eight similar cases occurred.
The department installed a monitoring and alarm system for the
buying and selling of stocks by phone, and carried out overall
monitoring of various internal business links. On 22 March, the
criminal entered the trading hall to commit crimes, and the
monitoring and control system at once accurately indicated his
location. He was arrested at the telephone and has admitted all
his crimes. However, whether the criminal committed the crimes
alone or with others remains to be investigated. [Summary]
[Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE in Chinese 1138 GMT 27 Mar 94]
Daya Bay Kidnapping Case Ends With Hostage Killed
In the small hours of 24 March, Huizhou's Daya Bay Public
Security Bureau cracked a kidnapping case in which the hostage
was killed. Four criminals were arrested, and 320,000 yuan in
illicit money, a pellet pistol, and a fruit knife were seized.
On the morning of 3 March, the No. 1 Criminal Investigation
Team of the Daya Bay Public Security Bureau received a report
that on the evening of 28 February, self-employed businessman
Zhou Yanming, 31, had been kidnapped and a ransom of 3.6 million
yuan had been demanded. It was agreed that the ransom would be
paid and the hostage released at midnight on 2 March. At 0030
on 3 March, following negotiations with the kidnappers, Zhou's
relatives put 430,000 yuan on the roadside of the Aoxia Highway,
as demanded by the kidnappers, then drove away. At 1900 that
day, the Zhou's body was discovered in the river below the Dutou
Bridge. On the basis of the clues provided by the victim's
family and the results of on-the- spot analysis, the Daya Bay
Public Security Bureau carried out an investigation. After 20
days, kidnappers Yuan Yongfa, Chen Kejian, Chen Jintian, and
Chen Dongyi were arrested. [Text] [Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN
SHE 1138 GMT 27 Mar 94]
Province-Wide Crackdown on Vehicle Theft
Between January and February, 263 motor vehicles were stolen
or hijacked in Shenzhen, representing a 11.4 percent increase
over the same period last year. According to Shenzhen's public
security authorities, 92 percent of the hijackings occurred on
remote roads on the outskirts, while 86 percent of the thefts
occurred in the vicinity of residential areas, hotels, and
restaurants. It is said that criminal syndicates hire thieves
from Hong Kong who often succeed in stealing a car in 10 minutes
or so. [Summary] [Hong Kong MING PAO in Chinese 26 Mar 94 p a13]
A total of 2,246 cases of car theft and carjacking occurred
in Shenzhen in 1993, inflicting losses amounting to 430 million
yuan. [Summary] [Hong Kong TA KUNG PAO in Chinese 30 Mar 93 p 4]
Shenzhen police recently set up a special operational group
and office to combat car theft. This morning, a large-scale
operation was launched to hunt down car thieves after statistics
-- 105 vehicles and 150 motorcycles stolen in the first two
months of the year -- showed that car theft has become a major
problem for the city. According to concerned officials, during
the operation, first they will issue notices urging citizens to
report crime, set a deadline for criminals to surrender
themselves, and ban illegal car transactions and changing car
colors or license plate numbers. Investigations then will be
stepped up, leading to the arrest of identified gangs that
steal, ship and sell stolen cars. Roadblocks will be set up in
Baoan and Longgang Districts on nine highways leading to Huizhou
and Dongguan Counties, and 600 officers from the police and
armed police corps -- including PLA soldiers -- will be deployed
to mount a 24-hour guard in interception operations. The city
also will launch a full cleanup of the auto trade and repair
industry. Auto maintenance plants that refit and handle stolen
cars must be shut down to await rectification, and some with
serious involvement may see their licenses revoked.
Unauthorized remodeling of car engines and changing of license
plates also will become punishable by law. [Excerpts] [Hong
Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE in Chinese 1203 GMT 29 Mar 94]
At a news conference on 30 March, the Guangdong Public
Security Department said that a province-wide campaign would be
launched to combat car theft. The campaign will include 28
roadblocks on major highways to intercept stolen cars and
fugitives. Car thieves are required to turn themselves in by 31
May or face sever punishment. Last year, more than 4,000 cars
and more than 26,000 motorcycles were stolen or hijacked. Cases
of vehicle theft in the first two months of this year show an
increase of 45 percent over the same period last year.
[Summary] (Hong Kong TA KUNG PAO in Chinese 31 Mar 94 p 3]
At a news conference on 9 April, Guangzhou Public Security
Bureau Director Zheng Guoqiang disclosed that since the
publication of the provincial government circular instituting a
crackdown on vehicle theft, Guangzhou has solved 457 cases of
vehicle theft, destroyed 45 criminal gangs, arrested 243
culprits, and recovered 36 cars and 221 motorcycles. The
director demanded that those who have committed such crimes
surrender themselves to public security organs before 31 May as
stipulated by the circular. [Summary] [Guangzhou Guangdong
People's Radio Network in Mandarin 0400 GMT 10 Apr 94]
Zheng said that following the crackdown, the number of cars
reported stolen in the city dropped from an average of three to
eight, to an average of one to two. The crackdown included
inspections of parking lots, auto repair shops, and car rental
agencies. The public security sub bureau in the town of Xicheng
arrested four gang members who confessed to 13 car theft cases
in Xintang, Baoan, and Dongguan. A small-gauge shotgun and
10,000 yuan also were seized from the gang. [Summary] [Hong
Kong TA KUNG PAO in Chinese 10 Apr 94 p. 4]
Public security organs in Huizhou have installed a telephone
hotline for people to report vehicle thefts. Statistics show
that more than 1,800 vehicles were stolen or carjacked in
Huizhou's downtown areas, accounting for more than 50 percent of
the city's total. [Summary] [Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE in
Chinese 0717 GMT 11 Apr 94]
According to information from the Guangdong Public Security
Bureau's Command Post Against Car Theft, on 10 April, Maoming
City's public security organ cracked a serious case of murder
and car theft, arresting all four culprits, among whom were two
women. Investigation reveals that it was a case of seduction and
premeditated murder. One week ago, Lin Yongwen, a driver with
the Maoming City Grain Bureau Materials Trading Company, met
dancing companions Li Moping and Hong Jinwen in the Maoming
Building. The women got his pager number and later arranged a
meeting with him. After getting him drunk, Chen Hong and Xu
Ming, the other two culprits, strangled Lin with electrical
wire. They put him in his vehicle and tried to drive away, but
were found and arrested by patrolling police. [Summary] [Hong
Kong WEN WEI PO in Chinese 12 Apr 94 p a3]
Shenzhen Breaks Up Drug, Burglary Gang
Based on the confession of an arrested burglar, a police
unit
of the Luohu sub bureau of the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau
smashed a drug and burglary gang, arrested 44 addicts and
thieves, and seized drugs and such stolen goods as wallets and
bracelets. The burglary occurred on 24 March when owner of a
house caught the burglar red-handed. All the 44 who arrested
hailed from Sheungde County, Hunan Province. [Summary] [Hong
Kong WEN WEI PO in Chinese 2 Apr 94, p a3]
Fugitives Returned to Guangdong
The recently concluded Third Plenary Session of the
Guangdong
Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission disclosed that since
last September, Guangdong has successfully waged an
anticorruption struggle and adopted resolute measures to clamp
down on economic crimes, with the result that a total of 55
fugitives involved in many major economic crimes have been
captured and repatriated from foreign countries, foreign
regions, as well as other Chinese provinces. The successful
arrest and repatriation of these criminals has made significant
contributions to the province's work in investigating and
handling major and serious cases. [Text] [Guangzhou Guangdong
People's Radio Network in Mandarin 0400 GMT 4 Apr 94]
On 9 April, three scoundrels were returned under escort from
Beijing to Guangzhou. They had been involved in a murder and
been fugitives for eight months. Armed with knives, the three
-- including Yu Pei and Zhang Lixin -- broke into a public
lavatory at the junction of the Huangshi Center and Tongxin
Roads on 1 August 1993. They ordered a Mr. Chen to surrender
his belongings. When he put up a struggle, they stabbed him to
death and fled the scene with Chen's mobile telephone.
[Summary] [Guangzhou Guangdong People's Radio Network in
Mandarin 0400 GMT 10 Apr 94]
Guangxi
Two-Year Antismuggling Campaign Yields Results
Following an intense two-year effort, the Guangxi
antismuggling force has gained control of smuggling activities
once rampant along the coast. Antismuggling force officers said
they had solved 236 smuggling cases involving 540 million yuan,
and had seized 1,369 cars, 1,874 motorbikes, and 8,121
television sets. The recent smuggling activities display three
characteristics: 1) They concentrated in economically open
areas like Beihai, Qinzhou, Dongxing, and Fangchenggang, with
cars and electric machinery as the main items; 2) Drug and gun
smuggling occur mostly in border areas, exploiting the
complicated terrain there; 3) Smuggling is run by individuals.
Guangxi has adopted the tactic of "making arrests at sea,
intercepting on the coast, carrying out inspections on land, and
tightening up controls over markets." Last year, Beihai Customs
solved 47 smuggling cases involving 180 million yuan, seizing
350 cars, 8,600 air conditioners, 4,523 color televisions, and
5,992 compressors. A particularly serious car smuggling case
that was solved in Qinzhou straddled four provinces, three
regions, and one city, and involved some $11.2 million.
[Summary] [Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE 1022 GMT 2 Apr 94]
Large Number of Abducted Women, Children Rescued
Miss Liu, 18, has left her 57-year-old "husband" and
returned to her native place in Jingxi County, thanks to rescue
efforts by the police. One year ago, she was sold by human
traffickers to Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which is
thousands of kilometers from her hometown. A person in charge
of the Guangxi Office for Cracking Down on the Abduction and
Sale of Women and Children said that Guangxi is one of the
country's major disaster areas for the abduction and sale of
women and children, and that according to statistics, the number
of women and children abducted and sold in Guangxi ranks second
in the country, just after Sichuan. In order to crack down on
the abduction and sale of women and children, Guangxi's public
security organs have adopted many measures simultaneously, and
have tried their best to rescue abducted and sold women.
According to reports, since 1991, public security personnel
have rescued thousands of women and children every year. From
August to September 1993, Guangxi carried out a special campaign
to crack down on the abduction and sale of women and children,
and the whole autonomous region transferred more than 60 public
security personnel from nine cities and prefectures, organized
them into six work teams, and sent them to Hebei, Shandong,
Anhui, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, and other places, to verify
and rescue women and children who had been abducted and sold.
During the campaign, 84 women and children were rescued. In
1993, Guangxi cracked more than 1,740 cases of abduction and
sale of people, detected 1,928 human traffickers, crushed 292
criminal gangs, and rescued 997 women and 72 children. At the
same time, Guangxi's public security organs and women's
federation launched extensive propaganda throughout the region
against the abduction and sale of women and children, and also
strengthened education for women, so as to achieve the effect of
prevention and rectification by the masses. [Text] [Hong Kong
ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE 10 Apr 94]
Hainan
Campaign Against Fake, Substandard Products
Since last year, Hainan industrial and commercial
departments
have launched many operations against fake and substandard
products. Personnel numbering 17,000 were deployed to inspect
shops, guest houses, restaurants, and so on in townships and
towns. Of these businesses, 904 were found to be operating
illegally or without proper authorization, 33 factories
producing fake goods were broken up, and 1,126 offenders were
investigated. Fake goods included 3,300 cigarettes, 23,316
bottles of wine, 60,000 items of medicines, 88,000 food and
beverage items, and 41,000 household appliances, as well as
wire, trademarks and logos, and so on. Vice Governor Mao Zhijun
said that fake goods still remain a serious problem, exhibiting
four characteristics: 1) Many brandname goods are still being
copied on a massive scale; 2) Trademarks are still being traded
without authorization, and with increases in quantity and
variety; 3) Fake and substandard household electrical appliances
can still be seen frequently -- the 260 National color
televisions imported last year to Keshan County, Guangdong, were
found to be home products; 4) There are many fake brandname
cigarettes. Public security forces and coast guards seized
4,500 cartons of fake cigarettes last year in Haikou, Lingao,
and other places. [Summary] [Hong Kong WEN WEI PO in Chinese 4
Apr 94 p. b5]
Heilongjiang
Three Arrested for Stealing Capital Gains Tax Invoices
In close cooperation with taxation departments, Harbin
public
security organs recently solved a case of stealing capital gains
tax invoices. They arrested three culprits and recovered all
the invoices. In March this year, Harbin's Hulan county
taxation bureau was robbed of 1,600 books containing a total of
40,000 copies of invoices. The three robbers included Deng
Yucai, a Harbin inhabitant, who remained in post with his salary
temporarily suspended; Yu Min, who was sentenced to 18 years
imprisonment for robbery and looting; and Sui Guohua, who was
sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for robbery and injuring
others. The police recovered 23,000 yuan of stolen money. The
case is still in progress. [Summary] [Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN
SHE 1226 GMT 1 Apr 94]
Hunan
Procuratorial Sector Cracks Down on Economic Crime
Since the beginning of the year, Hunan's procuratorial
sector
has done a good job in investigating and handling major and
important cases of economic crime, such as graft and bribery.
In the first two months of the year, a total of 211 major and
important cases were investigated and handled, accounting for
64.3 percent of the cases filed, an increase of 85.1 percent
over the same period last year. Some of the special
characteristics of processing major and important cases are: 1)
New breakthroughs have been made in cases related to such key
sectors as party and government organs, judicial organs,
executive and law-enforcement sectors, and the economic
management sector, with a total of 273 cases involving these
sectors handled in the first two months this year. Parties
involved in these cases included eight cadres at or above the
county and office level. 2) There are imbalances between
different areas in terms of the processing of cases. For
instance, in less than a month and a half, from 28 January to 4
March, the procuratorial body of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture,
a remote impoverished area in the west, solved five cases of
graft and bribery involving cadres at or above the county and
office level. [Text] [Changsha Hunan People's Radio Network in
Mandarin 2300 GMT 4 Apr 94]
Jiangxi
Couple Executed for Abduction, Sale of Children
Li Wenchu and Luo Zhenlan, a peasant couple from Xiafu
township's Hushan village, in Jiangxi's Pingxiang city,
collaborated with Lai Changjian to kidnap children. From the
August 1989 to April 1993, they abducted nine children aged
between four and eight from the city's Xiangdong, Laoguan,
Quantian, Futian, Mashan, and Nankeng townships, making a profit
of 36,000 yuan by selling them in Changding and Sanming, in
Fujian. The local public security organs arrested all the human
smugglers and sent all the children back to their parents. The
two principal culprits were sentenced to death, and other
culprits also were punished by law. [Summary] [Hong Kong
ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE 0747 GMT 1 Apr 94]
Jilin
Peasant Arrested for Passing Counterfeit Money
In the latter half of March, after three months of
investigation, public security organs in the city of Jian solved
an exceptionally large case of counterfeit bills and arrested
culprit Qu Changjiang, a 27-year-old peasant from a village in
Baishan City. Late last year, he bought 500 kg of ginseng from
a trader for 19,900 yuan. After Qu had gone, the trader
discovered that the same number was printed in all those bills
he had received, which later were proved to be counterfeit. Qu
said following his arrest that the counterfeit bills had been
purchased on the black market in Guangzhou and that the batch of
ginseng had been sold at a low price and all the proceeds spent.
[Summary] [Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE in Chinese 1024 GMT
10 Apr 94]
Liaoning
Peasant Wins Lawsuit Against Township Government
While handing a dispute between Wen Shixia, a peasant
businesswoman, and another person in early 1993, the Xiliu
township government in Liaoning illegally detained the
plaintiff's license and 91 jackets, which caused a serious
economic loss. The Haicheng People's Court re-examined the case
and passed a verdict, urging the accused Xiliu township
government to withdraw the decision to illegally detain the
property and to repay economic losses of 9,775 yuan to the
plaintiff. [Summary] [Hong Kong TA KUNG PAO 27 Mar 94 p. 3]
Ningxia
Public Security Organs Crack Down on Crime
Public security organs at all levels in Ningxia have
seriously implemented the guidelines of the National Politics
and Law Meeting and the National Meeting of Directors of Public
Security Departments and Bureaus, closely linked the guidelines
with local reality, sternly cracked down on crime, conducted
different forms of special anticrime struggles, improved social
order, solved conspicuous public security problems, and
effectively safeguarded stability and social security throughout
the region. In view of the increasing crime in some localities
since last winter, the public security organs at all levels have
severely and quickly punished criminals who have committed
serious crimes; focused efforts on cracking down on crimes that
seriously endanger public security, such as murder, robbery,
rape, serious theft, and swindling; and gone all-out to
safeguard social stability. In November 1993, three
dagger-wielding criminals entered a house in Zhenan,
Qingtongxia, stealing more than 10,000 yuan's worth of property.
The Qingtongxia Public Security Bureau solved the case in only
10 hours. Since the Yinchuan Public Security Bureau started to
conduct activities to "ferret out criminal gangs and crack down
on roving bandits" in December last year, it has wiped out more
than 30 robbery or roving criminal gangs, and has recovered
stolen money and property amounting to more than 700,000 yuan.
In February this year, the Xiji County Public Security Bureau
arrested a criminal involved in a serious ambush case. The
bureau also succeeded in arresting 11 other robbers and thieves
and solving more than 40 other cases. In January, the
Shizuishan Mining Bureau cooperated with the public security
organs to arrest a thief. This led to the solving of nine
criminal cases. From December last year to the end of February
this year, public security organs throughout the region solved a
total of 1,082 criminal cases of various kinds, of which 291
were major cases, and seized stolen money and property amounting
to 1.749 million yuan. Various localities also have conducted
different forms of special struggle in light of conspicuous
problems in social order. People complained about bicycle
thefts, so Yinchuan organized a 100-day special struggle against
the stealing of bicycles. As a result, 1,217 bicycles were
retrieved and most were returned to their owners. Yinnan and
Guyuan Prefectures focused efforts on activities to crack down
on encroachments upon the interests of peasants. Since January
this year, the public security organs have retrieved returned to
the collective or peasants 500,000 yuan's worth of property and
livestock for agricultural production. At present, the Ningxia
Regional Public Security Department has made arrangements for
conducting a region-wide "spring struggle" to continue to
sternly crack down on various kinds of crimes, and to organize
the police forces to strengthen control over social order and
precautions against crimes. It wants to provide a good social
environment for the opening of the meetings of the region's
people's congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference. [Summary] [Yinchuan NINGXIA RIBAO in Chinese 31 Mar
94 p. 1]
Qinghai
Major Drug-Trafficking Case Cracked
Recently, the Qinghai public security organ cracked a major
drug- trafficking case, in which 6,220 grams of heroin were
seized. It was the most serious case in the province ever. The
culprits, Chen Ziyong and You Yutai, two peasants from
Zhejiang, were apprehended according to the law. [Text]
[Beijing FAZHI RIBAO in Chinese 18 Mar 94 p 3]
Anticorruption Campaign Successful
Qinghai Province has scored initial success in fighting
corruption, as more than 94 percent of cadres at and above the
county level have undergone self-examination and
self-correction. A number of cases of violation of law and
discipline have been investigated and handled, and new progress
has been made in the operation to rectify unhealthy tendencies
in different trades. An anticorruption campaign was launched in
last August. By the end of last year, most leading bodies at
and above the county level throughout the province had called
self-examination and self- correction meetings for cadres. To
cope with the issues exposed, party and government organs at all
levels have formulated and revised regulations to promote
honesty and clean government. Meanwhile, discipline inspection
and supervisory organs at all levels have intensified the system
for processing letters of complaint and handling visits from
complainants. The numbers of letters and of visits received
have been increasing remarkably since last August. The
provincial discipline inspection commission and supervisory
department alone processed more than 1,000 complaints lodged by
letter or visit from September last year to February this year.
Last year, discipline inspection and supervisory organs
throughout the province placed on file and processed a total of
559 cases of violations of law or discipline, and disciplinary
actions were taken by the party and the government against more
than 200 offenders. Cases involving criminal violations have
been transferred to judicial organs for further processing. So
far in the province, more than 1,000 service charge items have
been sorted out and reviewed, of which 206 classified as
arbitrary and unreasonable have been sorted out and revised.
Most localities and government departments now are studying to
learn methods of disconnecting the managerial relations of
economic entities from their related party and government
organs. [Summary] [Xining Qinghai People's Radio Network in
Mandarin 2300 GMT 5 Apr 94]
Shaanxi
14 Major Corruption Cases Solved
Courts in Shaanxi recently cracked 14 corruption cases
involving 27 state workers. This was announced by a provincial
court chief. Of the 27 criminals, three were sentenced to death
for embezzling public funds, three to life imprisonment, and the
remaining 16 to three to 15 years' imprisonment. [Summary]
[Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE in Chinese 1342 GMT 31 Mar 94]
Shanghai
Success in Uncovering Tax Evasion
In the first three months of this year, following the
adoption of the new taxation system, Shanghai's taxation
department followed the clues in 208 tax evasion cases, solving
104 of them, in which the taxes evaded amounted to more than 6.9
million yuan. There were 17 serious cases in which the amount
of taxes evaded exceeded 100,000 yuan, while cases involving
legal persons numbered eight. [Summary] [Hong Kong ZHONGGUO
TONGXUN SHE in Chinese 0916 GMT 22 Mar 94]