Chapter 21 Section 21 Outflanking "Botan"

The Botan Oil Depot was identified as one of the five attack points, firstly because of the detailed information mentioned in the report materials, and secondly because a large number of imported oil tankers berthed at the Bothan Oil Depot, which is a fact that cannot be concealed; Xiamen business people almost unanimously believe that the Bothan Oil Depot is a A stronghold for transiting smuggled oil. On August 20, the investigators entered the company to learn about the situation, but it was disappointing, and the business information was incomplete.Luo Jie, the vice president of the company, Lin Bin, the manager of the oil depot, Lin Qizhi, Wu Chenghang and others were circled by the investigators for a conversation.They confessed: Luo Jie had been instructed by Hou Xiaohu from August to September 1998 to have Lin Bin, Lin Qizhi, and Wu Chenghang use a shredder to destroy all the original fax instructions for the entry and exit of refined oil; Chen Yanxin instructed his subordinates Zeng Ming, Director of the Marketing Department of the Petroleum Group, destroyed the information on the sublease and transfer of refined oil from Xindadi Company to the Petroleum Group.In early June 1999, Lin Bin and Wu Chenghang, according to Luo Jie's instructions, destroyed all the data of all customers who entered and exited the oil depot before June 1998!

The wild goose left a voice.In addition to intensifying the interrogation of suspected smugglers and obtaining materials from insiders, the investigators took the rental income of Botain Company as a breakthrough point for evidence collection.A total of 22 customers were found to have rented oil tanks from the bank accounts and sales revenue sub-accounts, and 7 of them rented tanks to store vegetable oil.However, if you look carefully at Jingwei, only the Petroleum Group and Xindadi (a shell company controlled by Yuanhua) actually paid. The other companies that did not pay were actually customers who purchased oil from oil importers such as Kaiyuan and Xindadi. .

The investigators also asked all the on-duty staff of the company's operation department who went through the formalities on the ship to learn about the situation.They recalled that Kaiyuan's oil was unloaded into tanks by many ships, among which the oil from ships "Ruby" and "Sapphire" was unloaded into tanks 103 and 104. They believed that the operation department should keep these records.As a result, the unloading records of more than 100 oil tankers berthing Botan since 1997 were found in the office of the person in charge of the operation department, among which Xiamen Petroleum Group imported a large amount of oil.

The investigators ordered relevant personnel to organize the information of the oil tanker according to the specified items into a form for future reference, and the gaps were opened one after another.After checking that there are still more than 60,000 tons of imported refined oil products in the inventory, the task force decided to seal them up and order the company to hand over the list of owners of the oil in storage.After verification, these cargo owners are all on the list of customers who rent tanks. The current general manager Reed, after the investigators explained the situation to him through a translator, asked him to cooperate with the task force and provide all the information. He said he would reply after consulting the company headquarters in the Netherlands.The next day, Reid handed over to the task force all the business data of the oil storage and the floppy disk copy of the electronic data sent to the headquarters in the Netherlands.

So far, the raw materials of vegetable oil and crude oil smuggling seized from Botan have been quite abundant, and the true face of Botan as a gathering and distribution base for smuggled oil has been fully exposed. The bonded oil is stored in the Botan oil tank, the customer has to submit the bonded procedures of the customs, and the non-bonded oil enters the warehouse, the customer needs to provide the tax payment certificate of the customs.However, in the past few years, Botan Company has loaded, unloaded and stored 26 shipments of 340,000 tons of smuggled imported vegetable oil and 166 shipments of nearly 2 million tons of smuggled imported refined oil according to the client's instructions without submitting any customs procedures. The smugglers destroyed evidence such as customer loading and unloading instructions.For this reason, on August 23, 1999, the "4.20" task force seized 64,310 tons of refined oil products suspected of smuggling according to law, and was preparing to enter the sale stage; 60 million yuan was ordered to be handed over to the special case team as a deposit, and the case will be dealt with after the end of the case.

Regarding this decision, the Dutch side of Botain Company submitted a "Report Reflecting the Situation of Botain Company" to the Fujian Provincial Government through the Dutch Consulate General in Guangzhou, and the Provincial Government forwarded it to the task force for a reply.The task force refuted the argument in the "Circumstances" that "the company's equipment was misused" on the basis of verified facts, and in accordance with the law, it pointed out that Botain Company is not a "victim" but a suspect involved in illegal smuggling activities. By!