Chapter 37 Chapter 37

At the same time as the "New Central Plains", there was also a "Xiangyu Xindadi Import and Export Company", which was also established with the participation of military enterprises. After the "New Central Plains" signboard was discarded, "New Land" was used to continue to act as an agent for Lai Changxing's cigarette re-export business. It operated until the end of 1997. A total of more than 50,000 boxes of cigarettes were smuggled, and the agency fee was 1.8 million yuan.These three units are actually shell companies, and Wang Yandi's role is only to seal them.He confessed: "All these re-exported cigarettes are controlled by Lai Changxing." "The import and export contracts and related documents are all made by Hou Xiaohu and Wang Qian of Yuanhua, and the seal of the foreign company is on them. Take it anytime you want."

The sudden trial of Wang Yandi led to the discovery of another veteran figure who created a "foundation" for Lai Changxing's cigarette smuggling.The culprit was Bi Ronglu, a classmate of Wang Yandi, and the person who helped Wang and Lai "marry". In March 1995, when he was planning to smuggle cigarettes in the form of entrepot trade, it was Bi who got in touch with Chen Zigeng, vice president of Xiamen Tobacco Company, and asked Chen to transfer the plan of Hong Kong British American Tobacco Company to Yuanhua. In June 1995, Bi and Chen went to Hong Kong to find the agent of British American Tobacco Company, the general manager of Hong Kong Weidahang, and signed a general contract. For the Chinese department of the company, 30% of the deposit will be paid to "Weidahang".Only then did the smuggling of cigarettes in the form of entrepot trade begin in the second half of 1995.Wang and Bi's confession brought several clear and important information to all the investigators of the newly established cigarette team: first, it was confirmed that the main method of cigarette smuggling was counterfeit re-export; For the first time, Xiaohu and Wang Qi came into the eyes of the investigators; third, Yuanhua borrowed other companies as import agents to cover up its smuggling face, and such agency companies were definitely not these three.

These three aspects of information suddenly saw bright spots in the search for a breakthrough in the cigarette group and in the exploration of clarifying the main direction of attack. The cigarette team divides its personnel into two groups according to the established strategic decision-making, and divides the troops into actions, so as to obtain as much information as possible to determine the main attack direction.A group of personnel went to the customs, foreign agents, port supervisors, shipping agents, and tally to obtain all documents and computer data related to the import and export of cigarettes.The Xiamen agency of Hong Kong Futian Shipping Co., Ltd. alleged in the report letter has begun to show its flaws.Another group of personnel started with the interrogation of Wu Yubo, who had been detained by the customs for suspected violation of the law and destroyed smuggling evidence, sorted out the major suspects in important positions, and brought them to the special case team for questioning.The suspect at the customs confessed that there are about three methods of smuggling cigarettes—falsely declaring the name of the product; exporting on a false ship with false voyages; and falsely exporting empty containers.

According to the investigation plan, the cigarette group decided to start the investigation from the confirmation of false exports.But where to start? At that time, the materials transferred back from WAI, WLI, Shipping Agency and Customs all recorded that the re-exported cigarettes were exported in heavy boxes.The export declaration form and the records of the customs inspector annotated on the form, the tally list of the foreign agent, the cargo list of the foreign agent, and the manifest records are all heavy container exports.There are only two sources of clues: the clues of the report letter claiming that the goods are not taken out of the container, and the two ways of false export claimed by the customs inspectors: false ship, false voyage and false export of empty containers.

If it is a false export of empty containers, the content of the investigation is more complicated and there are many links.As for the key unit, the representative office of Futian Shipping Agency in Xiamen (the clue to the report letter), which operates the fake export of empty containers, has been emptied, and Tang Zilan, the manager of the representative office, has fled. If it is a false ship, false voyage and false export, the investigation is relatively simple: if the customs declaration form re-exports the transport ship and voyage records, if the arrival record cannot be found in the joint inspection units such as port supervision, health inspection, animal and plant inspection, and border defense, it will be inspected. It can be confirmed that false ships, false voyages and false exports are established.

The case-handling personnel sorted out the "ship and voyage table for exporting cigarettes" by using the computer to sort out the names, voyages and date of departure of the ships that carried cigarettes for export in the past three years.Among them, the ships represented by Futian Shipping were listed as the key investigation objects, and then they went to the foreign agency, health inspection, animal and plant inspection, and port supervision to ask these units to retrieve the archived data according to the statistical table, and check whether they have arrived at the port or left the country. record of.