Ministry of Public Security Announces 8 Typical Cases of New-Type Gang-Related and Organized Crimes

The Ministry of Public Security recently organized public security agencies nationwide to carry out a coordinated crackdown and roundup operation, dismantling a number of criminal gangs and solving a number of cases involving underworld and evil forces. On September 29, it released 8 typical cases of new types of underworld and evilrelated crimes to strengthen their warning and deterrent effect. These 8 cases respectively involve online “loan sharking traps” and soft violence debt collection, malicious claims, publicopinion blackmail, labor scam extortion, traffic scam extortion, forced consumption, nude chat extortion, and online violence “protection money” extortion. They cover Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places. In many of the cases, criminal gangs carried out extortion and blackmail against enterprises, merchants, and individuals by impersonating identities, manufacturing disputes, making threats, and engaging in online harassment. Public security authorities said these cases show that crimes involving underworld and evil forces are becoming more concealed, crossregional, and internetbased. The police will continue to crack down hard on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities involving underworld and evil forces in accordance with the law, safeguarding social order and the security of the public’s property.