Chapter 1032: If you want to punish the bad guys, you must be worse than the bad guys.
After taking office at the headquarters, many things that need to be dealt with are different from those at the grassroots level. Meetings are completely unavoidable.
Wang Yaozu inevitably took the road of calling everyone for a meeting.
There is no way, this kind of action cannot be handled by one department and two departments.
In the large conference room, Wang Yaozu was sitting at the head of the table, surrounded by officers above the superintendent level from the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau, the Criminal Intelligence Bureau, the Organized Crime and Triad Investigation Bureau, the Criminal Support Bureau, and the Criminal Division Headquarters.
"I don't like to procrastinate in meetings. If I have something to say, I'll talk directly."
What is good at the top must be done by the people below. What is the style of leadership and what is the natural style of work for subordinates? If Wang Yaozu wants to make the Criminal Department look like him, he must show his own things as soon as possible.
"Today we are going to talk about tobacco smuggling and summarize all the tobacco smuggling cases involved in your departments."
"Start from the club side."
The Chief Superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Investigation Bureau twitched his lips, "We are not a society, we are a responsible society!"
"Basically all major organizations are involved in tobacco smuggling. Take He Shenghe as an example. They smuggle a large amount of mainland cigarettes from the mainland into the Hong Kong Island market every year. Dongxing has smuggled cigarettes from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand.
There are also some other small societies, but they are just piecemeal, and that one is too much." He didn't say anything about Hongxing. Who didn't know that Chen Yaoqing, the most popular person in Hongxing, was a member of Wang Yaozu, and if he wanted to know any news, he just made a phone call.
"Why haven't you heard about the police arresting these groups for smuggling tobacco? According to the information I got from above, there is a lot of profit in it, right?" Wang Yaozu asked directly. This was something he didn't understand. It seemed that he had an impression.
Compared with tobacco smuggling, which has a larger market, the society pays more attention to the drug market.
It's very strange.
"It's actually not very profitable."
"How to say?"
"Smuggling is precisely because the tobacco tax is too high. A pack of the cheapest cigarettes costs more than 50 yuan, and the better ones cost more than 80 yuan or more than 100 yuan a pack if purchased through formal channels. And those smuggled cigarettes end up on the street.
The actual prices sold in side shops and alleys are much cheaper than those sold in regular stores. Let’s say a pack of cigarettes costs 50 yuan. In fact, the tax is nearly 40 yuan. The price in regular stores is the same, but those sold at roadside stalls
For cigarettes, these cigarettes only cost more than 20 yuan, and the price difference of 30 yuan less is actually a profit to the buyer, and you don’t make much money.”
"That is to say, everyone buys smuggled cigarettes because they are cheap. In fact, the profits from smuggling cigarettes are not that big. The Hong Kong government has lost 10 billion in tax revenue. Maybe smuggling cigarettes can actually bring only benefits to people in this line.
Half, or less." Wang Yaozu immediately remembered the streetside cigarettes he had seen, just like those in old Shanghai, where a wooden box was filled with cigarettes, and they were sold holding or squatting on the street.
"Yes, the cost of the cigarettes themselves, transportation, opening up smuggling links, warehousing, and distributing them layer by layer to the people selling cigarettes on the street, is definitely not the 10 billion reported by the tax bureau."
"Okay, since there is news, let's go catch it. I want to see the results." Wang Yaozu waved his hand.
"This, I'm afraid, will cause trouble. Cigarettes are an important source of income for any large organization."
"Trouble?" Wang Yaozu's eyes were sharp, "What kind of fucking trouble? Whoever dares to cause trouble to me, I will let him never have a chance to make trouble in his life!"
"Tell a big club that this is what I, Wang Yaozu, said!"
"Okay, Brother Yao, I got it."
"In other departments, who has any cases related to tobacco smuggling?" Wang Yaozu asked again.
"The Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau has a case related to tobacco smuggling." Liu Baoqiang raised his hand and said.
Seeing Wang Yaozu's signal, Liu Baoqiang began to say: "We have been pursuing the Charida Trading Group. This group is engaged in tobacco import and export. We have been pursuing them for a long time. We seriously doubt that this company has refunded taxes from the customs.
Turn exports into domestic sales.”
"Oh, is this company very big?" Wang Yaozu suddenly became interested. The club was a problem. It would affect the whole body and cause trouble. But this kind of company was very good, so he was sure of it.
It's very manageable.
"It's very big, the second largest tobacco import and export company in Hong Kong." Liu Baoqiang nodded and said.
"That's him." Wang Yaozu made a decision directly. During this period, all his work focus will be on this company. He must win it and give an explanation to his superiors.
As for the societies, the most is to give them a blow and make them lose some manpower and property. It won't take long for them to recover as before. In the final analysis, the societies are the foundation. As long as the societies still exist, these black industries will definitely exist.
Everyone knows this.
"Tell me, what difficulties have you encountered now?"
"The biggest difficulty is not being able to find evidence." Liu Baoqiang said with a wry smile.
In fact, Liu Baoqiang and the others had already guessed the other party's method of smuggling. It was most likely that they were substituting cigarettes for export. The container was clearly reported to be tobacco for export, but in fact it was not. As for what was inside and what to do with it after it was shipped out to sea, then
In fact, it doesn't matter anymore. Since the original tobacco was not exported, it naturally turned into black smoke and flowed directly into the local market.
As for the large sums of money that are realized after flowing into the local area, they only need to flow abroad through the foreign exchange market, and then be paid back from abroad in the name of overseas companies. In theory, this money, earned from exporting cigarettes, is completely reasonable and legal.
Of course, how the extra profits will be distributed is beyond Liu Baoqiang's guess.
"Have you checked their containers?" Wang Yaozu asked with a frown.
"We checked once, but found nothing. Not every export of tobacco is fake. Before we know the pattern, we can't apply for a search warrant every time. And it doesn't matter even if the result is empty, as long as
If it hasn't gone out of the customs, it doesn't constitute an illegal act. At worst, it's just tobacco." Liu Baoqiang said with a depressed look: "As for the funding issue, we can only check the ones in Hong Kong Island. We didn't ask any questions. If there are problems, they are abroad.
, but we have no rights, except for the sea, let alone our rights."
"Haha, you are still too gentle. Give me all the information about this company and let me take a look." Wang Yaozu snorted and took a document and started to read it. The conference room fell into silence for a while.
The sound of rustling documents being flipped through.
After a while, Wang Yaozu paused with his fingers, suddenly turned back to the previous two pages and took another look, then raised his head and asked: "Is this legal person Chen Chaoqun of the Lida Trading Group a puppet?"
"Yes, Chen Chaoqun doesn't care about Lida's affairs. It's most likely that he used it to jack up the tank if something went wrong." Liu Baoqiang was stunned for a moment and then agreed.
"Then it's him!" Wang Yaozu slapped the document on the table, "Let's break the fortress through him!"
"How to break it?" Liu Baoqiang's face flashed with excitement, knowing that Brother Yao had a solution.
"You don't have to worry about it. Just wait. In a few days, he will go to you to surrender and become a tainted witness to the police." Wang Yaozu had a weird smile on his lips.
Lu Xun once said that if you want to punish bad people, you must be worse than the bad people.