Chapter 40 Section 40 Obtaining documentary evidence

Since then, from June until the end of early 1998, a total of 10 ships including Haifengshan exported more than 1,300 containers on 39 voyages from Tongyi Wharf.The operation process is as follows: Three or four days before the ship arrives at the port, Tang Zilan calls Huang to arrange a berth, and informs Li Zhonghua one day in advance to make preparations.After the ship arrived at the port, Chen Bin, a clerk in the Xiamen office of Futian Shipping Company, sent a fake pre-allocation list and a fake cargo list.The ship docked, and the container truck entered the site.Li Zhonghua arranges the loading of the ship, and when the loading is completed, Chen Bin takes the customs "release form" to go through the "export" procedures, and sends the "vessel departure permit" to the ship, and the export ship leaves the port.After each voyage, Ren Jun sent money ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 yuan to Huangshan Eagle, depending on the number of empty cabinets on board.Huang gave Zhang Fumin 2,000 yuan, Li Zhonghua 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, and Li Zeping 2,000 yuan each time.The rest of Huang left for himself.Within a year and a half, Huang received about 2 million yuan from Ren Jun, gave Li Zhonghua 400,000 yuan, distributed the rest to Li Zeping, Zhang Fumin and others, and Huang himself got more than 1 million yuan.

In June 1999, Ren Jun came to Tongyi to find Huang Shanying again, and informed the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that the task force was coming to Xiamen. Huang absolutely could not admit the fact that "empty" was used instead of "heavy" for export, and insisted that it was "heavy box". The breakthroughs of Huang Shanying, Li Zeping, and Li Zhonghua made the context of the counterfeit cigarette smuggling case more clear.They not only explained the facts involved in the smuggling case involving Tang Zilan, Chen Bin, former customs inspector Ren Jun and others from Futian Shipping Company and Lai Changxing smuggling group, but also basically and completely outlined the smugglers' operating methods at Tongyi Wharf. Moreover, it also identified the 39 voyages exported from Tongyi Wharf as the criminal fact that empty containers were reported as heavy containers for export.

Which company owns the ship for re-export cigarettes chartered by Futian Company?The manifest provided by the foreign agent shows that the container numbers used to pack cigarettes for export have obvious characteristics, that is, they start with "SAXU" and are followed by 8 Arabic numerals.The investigators learned that the container represented by this container number belonged to the Hong Kong Central Asia Shipping Company. The results of the inspection of Zhongya found that Futian Shipping Company used ships leased from Zhongya Company to load cigarettes for export, and the leased ships included Luo Jiang and others.However, the container dynamic data retrieved from the computer showed that the containers containing cigarettes were all exported from Xiamen in the form of heavy containers.But there are also important gains: After looking through the paper documents and faxes kept by the Xiamen Office of the Central Asia Company, it was found that in the Busan "voyage report" of the five voyages of Tongxing 9608 and 9618, there were some documents that had been altered by correction fluid. Looking at the light, it is a line of small characters printed in English, which means "XX ship ×× voyage unloaded the empty box ×× box in Busan, South Korea on a certain day of the year, and loaded the heavy box ×× box at the same time. ".After checking the customs declaration form, manifest, cargo manifest and other materials, it was found that the number of empty containers unloaded was consistent with the quantity declared for export in Xiamen, and the time was also consistent with the export time plus the sailing time.This is the second time investigators have found paper evidence confirming the export of empty boxes.

Chief representative Wu and manager Liu of the Central Asia Representative Office in Xiamen were taken back to the task force for questioning.Wu, a Taiwanese resident, works in Central Asia, Hong Kong, and is assigned to take charge of business at the Xiamen Representative Office.Both Wu and Liu expressed their willingness to cooperate with the task force to clarify the issue. Wu and Liu were respectively ordered to translate and restore the altered content. After listening to the report on the progress of the case, the leaders of the task force decided that Wu and Liu should notify the Hong Kong headquarters that their office in Busan must fully report the real situation of loading and unloading cargo on the voyage of the Central Asia ship chartered by Futian from Xiamen to Busan. It was disqualified from operating in the mainland due to its alleged involvement in smuggling activities.

Central Asia’s Hong Kong headquarters attached great importance to conveying the information of the central “4.20” task force in the past, and sent personnel to Busan to handle matters assigned by the task force.A week later, Wu and Liu submitted a faxed copy of "Statistics of Tongxing Ship Unloading and Loading at Busan Port from 1996 to 1998" to the cigarette group.In the fax, it was stated that Tongxing had unloaded empty containers on 12 voyages at Busan Port in the past three years, one voyage unloaded empty containers at Naha Port in Japan, and one voyage unloaded empty containers while transiting in Hong Kong.After checking other information (including the logbook searched from the Tongxing ship), the berthing time at Busan Port and the number of containers are exactly the same.This is a documentary evidence that proves the export of empty containers with the largest amount of information.