Fishing is an activity that many people like very much in their leisure time, but in a fishing ground in Wuhan, Hubei Province, there was an abnormal scene. Here, catching a fish can be exchanged for 600,000 yuan in cash. Not only that, but the ticket price of this fishing ground is as high as several thousand yuan, and you must be introduced by an acquaintance. What kind of fishing is this?
Incredible! A fish can be exchanged for 600,000 yuan.
In the spring of 2023, the police of the Huangpi District Branch of the Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau arrested more than a dozen criminal suspects in a seemingly ordinary fishing ground, and the gang labeled the fish in the pond with various labels, the most expensive of which turned out to be as high as 600,000 yuan.
Things have to start with a short **, ** filmed in this fishing ground, several large transport trucks parked by the fish pond, and the big fat fish pouring down lively, quite eye-catching. The short ** is also full of eye-catching words such as a total price of 4 million yuan.
The police quickly found the fishing ground according to the clues, and when the police planned to disguise themselves as anglers and go to know more about the situation, they were told by the staff in the fishing ground that they were refused to enter the fishing ground.
Yuan Quan, police officer of the Public Security Management Brigade of the Huangpi District Bureau of the Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau: This fishing ground is not open to strangers, only to acquaintances or introduced by acquaintances, so we disguised ourselves as nearby villagers and squatted nearby, and found that there were a lot of people in the fishing grounds. One in the morning and one in the afternoon, each of which was close to more than 50 people, and people drove private cars one after another to fish in this fishing ground. After our visit and investigation, we found that the ticket price of the fishing ground was as high as 2480 yuan.
The fee for a fish fishing is 2480 yuan, and the time limit for fishing is also specially marked for 5 hours. With such a high threshold, there is an endless stream of people who come to fish, and all kinds of abnormal behaviors have increased the suspicion of **.
Yuan Quan: The follow-up investigators disguised themselves as anglers and entered the fishing ground through some methods. When you enter the fishing ground, you will find that the area is very large, 400 meters long and 50 meters wide, with a whopping 128 fishing positions. There are a lot of staff patrolling the area, and there are monitoring probes on top of each fishing spot.
Fishing grounds become "casinos".
Fish become "gambling equipment".
Huang Pi** dispatched more than 110 police forces and formed 10 arrest teams to go to the scene to carry out arrest operations. **86 people were arrested at the scene, and more than 10 yuan of gambling-related cash, lottery machines, walkie-talkies, account books and other related evidence were seized in the fishing ground, and the main suspect Zheng and others were also arrested.
According to Zheng, in order to attract more people to participate, they also launched a herring gift package at the fishing ground, claiming to have put about 15,000 herring into the pond, of which more than 700 herring fish have plastic signs tied to their fins, red and yellow, and the number of shares marked on the sign corresponds to the amount.
When the gambling game begins, the fishing ground organizes gamblers to draw lots, and the fishing position can not be changed in the future, and the fishing time limit is 5 hours, and the fish caught cannot be taken out of the fishing ground, and can only be exchanged for money in accordance with the rules of the casino.
In this fishing feast, after the angler paid the ticket of 2480 yuan, he had to catch at least 9 ordinary fish to return the capital, and Zheng and others in the gang involved in the case came up with all kinds of methods, so that the fishermen could not return the original at all.
Zhang Xu, police officer of the Huangpi District Bureau of the Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau, Hukou Street Police Station: For example, in the first one, anglers need to choose their own fishing positions by lottery, not where they want to fish. After the lottery is selected, you cannot leave your fishing position, and if you leave your fishing position, the fish you catch will not count. The second pond is 400 meters long and 50 meters wide, but the fishing grounds require that the rod must only be 18 meters long. At 18 meters, it is very limited for such a large fishing ground. Thirdly, the fish they catch must be honest to be effective, and it doesn't count if they catch it from the side or from the outside.
Under various restrictions, most people actually catch only two or three fish, and the so-called red label carp worth 600,000 yuan only exists in short ** advertisements, and anglers who want to fight with a winning mentality can only end up with no return. But even so, there are not many people who come here to fish, and there are even many repeat customers.
Zhang Xu: After we arrested the suspects, we seized their account books, and in just over 20 days, their turnover was as high as more than 3 million yuan, and more than 100,000 yuan of gambling funds were also seized at the scene.
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