In the history of Hong Kong criminals, there is a person who is absolutely unavoidable, his criminal history runs almost throughout his life, and he has done many sensational cases, and he is still often talked about by many people, he is Zhang Ziqiang, who is known as the thief of the century.
The amount of money illegally obtained by Zhang Ziqiang is also the largest in Hong Kong history, and it has been included in the Guinness Book of Records. He has robbed escort trucks full of Rolex watches, robbed bank cash trucks, kidnapped Hong Kong tycoons and their families, Zhang Ziqiang has planned carefully every time he commits crimes, leaving no traces at the scene, so the Hong Kong police have been helpless against him throughout his criminal career.
Although he was arrested and imprisoned after robbing the cash truck, because he was familiar with Hong Kong law, he finally won the lawsuit against Bo Gongtang, and Hong Kong** not only apologized to Zhang Ziqiang, but also compensated him with 8 million Hong Kong dollars.
Zhang Ziqiang, April 7, 1955, was born in Yulin, Guangxi, in 1959, 4-year-old Zhang Ziqiang followed his parents to smuggle to Hong Kong, Zhang Ziqiang's father, after arriving in Hong Kong, relied on selling herbal tea for a living, and his family life was very poor. Cheung spent his teenage years in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, often hanging out with the gangsters in society, and he was a frequent visitor to the police station during this period.
At that time, Yau Ma Tei, various forces were intricate, and there were many gangs, Zhang Ziqiang grew up in this environment since he was a child, and he was naturally contaminated with a lot of bad habits.
When Zhang Ziqiang was 16 years old, he left a record of 15 cases at the police station, but they were all small things such as fighting, stealing chickens and dogs. Later, he was taken by his father to work in a tailor's shop, because he was young and had no education, this job suited him very well, Zhang Ziqiang did a good job here, and he also taught himself English during the work.
Working in a tailor shop, he met two people who changed his life, the first was Wang Fengqi, Wang Fengqi was mixed in Yau Ma Tei all the year round, and his mind was very flexible, instilling in him the idea of committing the earliest big crimes and getting rich, and the second person was Luo Yanfang, who was his right-hand man on the road to crime, and later became his wife.
Zhang Ziqiang was 29 years old in a tailor's shop, during which time he married Luo Yanfang and gave birth to two children. After leaving the tailor shop, Zhang Ziqiang mixed in the society and made some money, but at this time, Zhang Ziqiang thought that the money was too slow and opened the door to his crime.
On February 22, 1990, ** received a report that an escort car containing 40 boxes of Rolex watches worth more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars was missing, **After receiving the report, a large number of police officers were immediately dispatched to investigate and find, and 2 hours later, the escort car's guards called ** to call the police for help.
* After arriving, the escort recounted the experience, they were stopped by a car not long after they started, 5 masked gangsters were well-trained, and quickly hijacked the escort car, after the escort car was driven to a place, 40 boxes of watches were moved to another car waiting, after which the escort car was burned, and the escort personnel in the car were not harmed, **After careful search, no clues were found from the scene.
* Through the entire robbery described by the escort, the bandits are so familiar with the time and route of the escort, suspecting that there are insiders who should cooperate with each other, after a large number of visits and investigations, ** found Luo Yanfang, who works at Rolex, and his other identity is Zhang Ziqiang's wife.
* Through investigation, it was found that Zhang Ziqiang opened a gold shop, and between 1985 and 1990, the gold store was robbed many times and obtained huge insurance claims, which is suspected to be directed and acted by Zhang Ziqiang.
But all this ** is just suspicion, there is no evidence, although the Rolex watch was robbed, but each watch has an independent serial number, as long as the watch appears on the market, ** can be touched by the vine. But strangely enough, Hong Kong** has not found any trace of this batch of watches on the market.
On July 12, 1991, a cash truck loaded with 160 million Hong Kong dollars was robbed again, and the robbery method was the same as last time.
In a year and a half, there were two huge robbery cases in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong ** believed that the two cases were committed by the same group of people, and invested a lot of manpower to solve them.
* increased the investigation of Luo Yanfang and the people around her, and after a thorough investigation, ** arrested Luo Yanfang and Zhang Ziqiang. Zhang Ziqiang was sentenced to 18 years in prison, and Luo Yanfang was acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
After serving three and a half years in prison, the Hong Kong High Court finally ruled that he was not guilty, on the grounds that in the cash truck robbery case, there was only a confession from the escort who saw Zhang Ziqiang's face at that moment, and there was no other evidence to support it, and the confession alone could not conclusively confirm that the case was committed by Zhang Ziqiang.
On June 22, 1995, Zhang Ziqiang was released from court, and he strode out of the courtroom with his head held high, smiling and making a triumphant V-shaped gesture outside the courtroom. After that, he filed a lawsuit against Hong Kong** and obtained 8 million in compensation.
After Zhang Ziqiang was released from prison, he contacted Ye Jihuan, another famous person in Hong Kong criminal history, and conspired to do a big case together. This time their goal is to kidnap the eldest son of Hong Kong's richest man.
On May 13, 1996, Zhang Ziqiang and Ye Jihuan led their horses to return to Hong Kong by boat with the guns they bought, and were found by the patrol police when they went ashore.
Although Ye Jihuan was arrested, it did not affect the implementation of the plan, and more than 10 days later, Li Zeju was kidnapped and kidnapped on the road. After that, Zhang Ziqiang carried a gun and personally went to Li's house to ask for a sky-high ransom of 1 billion, and the two sides calmly discussed the process of paying the ransom after meeting.
The Li family first took out a deposit of 40 million, saying that because the amount was huge, it would take time to raise, and in order to show sincerity, he could take these first, and they would give Zhang Ziqiang the amount he wanted as soon as possible. Zhang Ziqiang thought that this amount was unlucky, took 38 million, and a few days later the Li family handed over 1 billion ransom to Zhang Ziqiang. Li Zeju returned home unscathed, and Zhang Ziqiang's gang won a total of 10 in this case3.8 billion. Among them, Zhang Ziqiang alone shared 600 million of them, and the Li family did not call the police from beginning to end.
The amount of money obtained for ransom from this hostage kidnapping was unprecedented, and it was counted in the Guinness Book of Records. With such a huge wealth, Zhang Ziqiang did not plan to live in peace, but acted more and more high-profile, openly challenging Hong Kong**, throwing petrol bombs at Stanley Prison, where Ye Jihuan was imprisoned, hitting Stanley Prison with a mud truck, and planning to kidnap Hong Kong***
After this series of events, Zhang Ziqiang's reputation was a household name in Hong Kong at that time. Li Ka-shing once gave Zhang Ziqiang advice, let him use this huge amount of money as an investment, and he will inevitably spend his life in a beautiful way, how could Zhang Ziqiang listen to Li Shoufu's advice, and soon he squandered the huge amount of money he received in the casino.
Zhang Ziqiang, who was short of money again, decided to kidnap more wealthy businessmen from Hong Kong and Macao to extort money, and the second target was the gambling king Stanley Ho, but he was discovered by ** and the plan failed. He then targeted Kwok Bingxiang, another real estate tycoon in Hong Kong.
On September 29, 1997, one year after the last kidnapping, Zhang Ziqiang successfully kidnapped Guo Bingxiang again, and Guo Bingxiang began to be fearless and refused to ask for ransom for his family. Later, he was stripped naked and imprisoned in a wooden box, and under the torture of Zhang Ziqiang's gang, Guo Bingxiang finally compromised.
Zhang Ziqiang demanded a ransom of 2 billion this time, and the two sides negotiated at the agreed place, this time Zhang Ziqiang did not carry any ** to go alone, and the final ransom was set at 600 million.
On October 3, the Guo family paid a ransom of 600 million yuan to Zhang Ziqiang, and Guo Bingxiang was returned. These two robberies have put Hong Kong and Macao tycoons at risk. Wealthy businessmen have spared no expense in hiring bodyguards to buy bulletproof cars to strengthen the security of themselves and their families.
After this case, the extremely inflated Zhang Ziqiang decided to get his partner Ye Jihuan out in prison to become bigger and stronger together, how to rescue Ye Jihuan?His method was simple and crude, directly blowing up the prison and snatching Ye Jihuan out, so he bought explosives and guns everywhere. 800 kilograms of explosives illegally purchased from the mainland were stored in a remote stone house. After that, he rushed to Guangzhou, where his other gang members were waiting for him.
At this time, what Zhang Ziqiang didn't know was that his every move in China had already been targeted by the public security department. Public security officers have been monitoring his whereabouts at all times. With years of criminal experience, Zhang Ziqiang soon vaguely felt that some kind of threat was approaching him.
On January 23, 1998, Zhang Ziqiang came to Zhuhai from Shenzhen to live in a high-end residential area, which was not accessible to vehicles outside the community. He quickly drove away, ** lost Zhang Ziqiang in the process of tracking.
1.On the 24th, he found his car parked outside the Zhuhai Department Store, At this time, the public security officers decided to search for Zhang Ziqiang in the mall, but Zhang Ziqiang was not found in the mall. At this time, he had abandoned the car and absconded to the Gongbei port, 1On the morning of the 25th, Zhang Ziqiang's gang members found him, and the two took a taxi to Jiangmen together.
The two were arrested by the public security officers who were investigating when they entered Jiangmen. After Zhang Ziqiang was arrested, other members of the gang were arrested in Hong Kong and the mainland**, and a total of 36 people were arrested.
After Zhang Ziqiang**, he kept asking himself to return to Hong Kong to face trial, and his wife Luo Yanfang also traveled around Hong Kong and sent a letter to **, hoping that Hong Kong** could come forward to extradite Zhang Ziqiang back to Hong Kong to accept legal sanctions.
If Zhang Ziqiang is extradited back to Hong Kong for trial, the result will be completely different, although Zhang Ziqiang has committed many crimes, but he has not left evidence in many major cases, the two major cases of kidnapping the rich, although the sky-high ransom was extorted, but Li and Guo did not call the police, there is not enough evidence, Zhang Ziqiang is likely to be acquitted.
Tung Chee-hwa, the then chief executive of Hong Kong, openly stated that Zhang Ziqiang's arrest in the mainland had violated mainland law and that he would be dealt with in accordance with domestic law.
Soon, Zhang Ziqiang was charged with a number of crimes, illegal trading of ** goods, kidnapping, smuggling ** ammunition and other crimes, and was sentenced to death, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all property in the country.
On October 5, 1998, Zhang Ziqiang was escorted to the execution ground, and his criminal career finally came to an end.