Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, April 18 (reporter Ma Jian Xiongfeng) announced that "special channels provide liquor directly", mobile hard disk stores a large number of customer rating lists, and "special" high-end fake liquor is actually low-cost bulk liquor, with an average illegal profit of thousands of yuan per bottle... Recently, the public security organ in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province cracked a case of illegal production and sale of "special" and "special" fake liquor, and destroyed 11 dens, Fifteen suspects were arrested, and more than 1300 boxes of more than 20 kinds of fake liquor marked with the words "Party, government and military organs" were seized.
Does "special channel" really exist? How deep is the "routine" in the "special" wine? Why does "special" liquor exist in the market? Xinhua News Agency reporters conducted an investigation.
The driver who produces "special wine" is a net taxi hailing driver
In August 2022, Zhejiang Yuhuan Public Security received a report from Mr. Li that he had purchased Maotai liquor worth more than 1.4 million yuan from somewhere in Huangmou in many batches since 2018, which was identified as fake liquor. After receiving the police, the public security organs at Taizhou and Yuhuan levels transferred business backbones to set up special teams to carry out research, judgment and investigation.
After investigation, the criminal suspect Huang met Sun who sold fake wine when he was working outside. After returning to Taizhou, he often claimed that he had "access" in the circle, so as to create a "set of people". "He said that he has' special channels' in other provinces, and can buy 'special' wine, which is cheaper than the market." Mr. Li, who likes to collect high-end liquor, believed it and began to place orders in succession.
In this way, Huang sold fake wine to more than 40 people, making huge profits. Through information verification, the police gradually found out the online seller Sun in other provinces, as well as the producers Zhang, Tang and Bai. Sun is ostensibly a legal person of a liquor research company, but secretly he is engaged in reselling fake liquor. Zhang and Tang are online taxi drivers in the daytime. At night, they produce fake wine in a private house and sell it to the whole country through the convenience of Bai's work in a logistics company.
On May 8, 2023, Taizhou Public Security Bureau carried out network closing operations in many places across the country simultaneously, captured several criminal suspects, and seized more than 30 boxes of "special" fake liquor at the production dens.
After the principal criminal arrived at the case, the police dug deeply along the line, and developed another upstream counterfeit liquor production gang headed by Song, and packaging material supplier Zhu. In August of the same year, after the second time of unified collection, all the people involved were arrested, and a fake alcohol industry chain integrating production, supply and marketing was completely destroyed.
According to the investigation, since 2017, Mr. Huang, knowing that the liquor he bought was illegally produced, has linked up with Mr. Sun to obtain the source of goods, specifically ordered "special", "internal" fake liquor and counterfeit well-known brand liquor, and used his circle of friends and business relationships to promote a large number of them to local business operators.
"Special Maotai" liquor cost less than 50 yuan
The criminal act of producing and selling "special supply" liquor discovered in the case has aroused great attention of the public security organ. Wu Yuanfei, head of the Food, Drug and Environmental Crime Investigation Detachment of Taizhou Public Security Bureau, said that criminals, in the name of "special supply" and "special supply", deceived and misled consumers and fostered a bad social atmosphere.
The reporter saw in a warehouse of the Taizhou City Property Management Center involved in the case that the seized counterfeit Maotai, Wuliangye and other brand liquors were stacked in boxes, including some "special" counterfeit liquors printed with the words of the party, government and military units. "The 'special' liquor is mainly produced according to the customized requirements of customers." The suspect Zhang confessed that such customers would customize some 'special' liquor with the name of the relevant unit for the purpose of selling, entertaining or giving gifts.
Lv Zhang, the police officer in charge, said that the cost of a bottle of "specially provided Maotai" liquor was less than 50 yuan, and it was fake through layered distribution, and the end price was only slightly lower than the market price of real liquor. "Criminals follow the customers' psychology, and the price of fake wine fluctuates with the market, but always keeps a little lower than the real wine." He said that only in this way can the "special" channel be highlighted.
According to the analysis of the cases uncovered by the public security organs in the past, private entrepreneurs accounted for a certain proportion of the group buying "special" fake alcohol. "What does it mean to get the 'special' wine? It's just to prove that there is a special way." A grass-roots cadre admitted that vanity is actually the cause, trying to mystify.
Gao Chuan, the leader of the Public Security Action Team of Yuhuan Public Security Bureau, said that this kind of crime is often covert and sold through small internal circles or acquaintances. The criminals have obvious regional characteristics and strong anti investigation ability. In this case, Zhu is a habitual offender of "entering the palace several times".
The "special" liquor found in this case is all fake high-end liquor, and the bottled low price Maotai flavor bulk liquor is shoddy. In this industrial chain of illegal production and sale of "special supply" and "exclusive supply" of fake alcohol, criminals perform their own duties and have systematic marketing means. A rating list for customer groups was also found in the mobile hard disk of the fake wine sales gang for "precision marketing".
Sun, who links upstream production and downstream sales, is an important link in this case. "He has set up a special company to sell fake liquor and make an online sales platform, and has been engaged in activities in this field for a long time." The police handling the case introduced that the production and sales of "special" liquor in this case are characterized by professionalism and professionalism.
At present, the "special" liquor circulating in the market is fake liquor
In recent years, some lawbreakers, in the name of the central government, state organs and the people's army, have made huge profits by filling low-grade liquor, blending production, selling so-called "special" and "special" fake liquor. In response to the prominent problem of such crimes, the Ministry of Public Security has recently deployed the national public security organs to carry out the "clean wind" special action to curb the illegal production and sale of "special wine" crime, purify the social atmosphere, maintain the good image of the party, the government and the people's army, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the relevant departments issued a notice in 2013, forbidding the central and state organs to use such marks as "special offer" and "special offer". In 2022, six departments including the Logistics Support Department and the Ministry of Public Security of the Central Military Commission issued the Notice on Prohibiting the Sale of "Military" Brand Cigarette and Alcohol and Other Commodities, which prohibits the sale of "Military" brand cigarettes and alcohol and other commodities online and offline.
The police remind that all the "special" wines in circulation on the market are fake, so please don't be fooled. If you find someone selling "special" liquor, you can report it to the market supervision, public security organs and other departments in a timely manner.
"If there is no demand, there will be no market. If everyone knows that there is no 'special supply' wine, and you treat them with 'special supply' wine, people will not think you have connections and connections, but rather that you are a liar." A grass-roots cadre in Zhejiang said that the management of "special supply" wine depends on both cracking down and publicity, effectively improving the public's awareness and ability of fraud prevention.
It is reported that the public security organs will actively carry out joint law enforcement with relevant departments, strengthen the supervision and inspection of key places, and dig deep into the criminal clues of using the Internet, logistics and delivery to sell fake alcohol, in view of the intertwined characteristics of such crimes and administrative violations such as false publicity, trademark infringement, Internet sales of fake alcohol, endangering food safety and illegal printing; According to the crime situation of manufacturing and selling counterfeit goods in key areas, we organized a cross provincial cluster campaign to completely cut off the criminal chain of "production, supply and marketing".
