This is just one bottle of100000 slimming products.
▲ Fake weight loss products retired by the police from production dens.
According to the preliminary investigation, the case of manufacturing and selling toxic and harmful food involving hundreds of millions of yuan was cracked by the police and food and drug supervision departments in Loudi, Hunan Province after several months of investigation, and there were victims in all provinces and cities across the country.
A few days ago, the reporter sampled and tracked the terminal consumption market of these slimming products, and found that many female dieters were still unaware of the news that these slimming products they ate were classified as toxic and harmful foods.
"Ah, am I eating fake diet products?" It was not until the reporter came to the door that Liu Xi (a pseudonym), a chubby woman in her early twenties, realized that all she ate were fake and inferior products produced by black workshops.
Draw the snake out of the hole-draw the devil out
In order to gain the trust of the seller
Male investigators disguised themselves as women and chatted with them.
In fact, these slimming products enter the market in the form of health food with slimming effect. The biggest harm of this batch of products is the addition of a toxic and harmful banned chemical-sibutramine.
Hou Difan, director of the US Food and Drug Administration in Loudi, said that sibutramine is a central nervous system inhibitor, which has the effects of excitement and food inhibition, and may cause serious side effects such as increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, anorexia, insomnia and abnormal liver function. 20 10 China stopped producing, selling and using sibutramine preparations and raw materials, and listed it as an illegally added chemical substance in slimming products.
The case clue was discovered by Alibaba Group in its daily risk control investigation. At the end of last year, Hunan Provincial Public Security Department and Hunan US Food and Drug Administration handed over this clue pushed by Alibaba Platform Management Department to Loudi Public Security Bureau and Loudi US Food and Drug Administration. After preliminary investigation, the case was filed in April this year.
Liu Liang, instructor of the Food and Drug Crime Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Detachment of Loudi Public Security Bureau, is one of the persons in charge of the case. He told Red Star News that the initial clue was single, except for a Taobao shop selling weight-loss products, whose registered address was in Shuangfeng County, Loudi City, but the food had been removed from the shelves.
The seller in Shuangfeng County is a pair of sisters, and the online contact name is "American Man-made". Liu Liang then registered a micro-signal, using various photos of the same lady's life as her avatar, and sent a circle of friends one month in advance before she came into contact with "Beauty Makeup".
"Network cases have two characteristics. First, information is virtual, and most of it is false; Second, it spreads quickly. If any link is leaked, the entire criminal network will be alarmed, so it must be investigated secretly. " Liu Liang said that in order to avoid the suspicion of "honey trap", he sometimes had to ask his wife to have a voice chat with each other.
Camouflage tracking
Shenshan simple workshop specializes in processing
One hour can produce 10000 capsules.
Until July, the task force discovered that Wu Qiong (pseudonym) lived in Huaibei, Anhui Province through a picture of "Beauty Made" QQ space.
Further investigation by the task force found that Wu Qiong did not deliver the goods directly to "Beautiful Manufacturing". She was actually an agent, and the real consignor was Zhang Feng (a pseudonym) in Weishi County, Henan Province.
On March 23 this year, "Beautiful Manufacturing" sent a message in a circle of friends saying that "I don't know how many packages have arrived", and the picture was accompanied by the name of the logistics company. The task force then found the relevant logistics list of this logistics company, and then grasped Zhang Feng's real address.
The task force also found out that on May 3 1 day, Zhang Feng entered an order from Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, and the shipper was Wu Yuan (a pseudonym), a man from Anhua County. The task force rushed to Anhua County and found that Wu Yuan often changed his identity and mobile phone number and delivered goods from the same logistics company to Weishi County, Henan Province.
▲ An unannounced visit by the police found that Wu Yuan often delivered goods from the same courier company in Anhua County. The package in the picture is the goods of Wu Yuan and others.
Peng Leping, deputy detachment leader of the inspection detachment of the US Food and Drug Administration in Loudi, told reporters that Wu Yuan was very cunning. He sleeps during the day and goes out to play cards and drink or go to Internet cafes at night. "He lives in a relative's house selling paint in the county. Once the investigation team followed him to a building materials market and found that he played cards until four in the morning and then slept until five in the afternoon. "
After a month and a half of secret tracking of Wu Yuan, the task force finally found its production den-probably a four-story building 20 kilometers away from the county seat.
"Sometimes we dress up as lovers to fetch water from the mountains, and sometimes we dress up as geological prospectors to ask for directions, and finally determine that this is the production den." Liu Liang said.
The production den is located in the garage on the ground floor of this four-story building. Wu Yuan separated a room with wooden boards as a production workshop. His simple production tool can produce10,000 capsules in one hour. There are buyers who want goods, and Wu Yuan only comes here to produce, which can be completed in a few hours at a time.
Further investigation by the investigation team found that Zhang Feng had more than one purchase channel, and his other purchase channel was in Nanjing. After receiving the goods from these two channels, Zhang Feng packaged and processed them and sold them all over the country.
On July 19, Loudi Public Security Bureau and US Food and Drug Administration closed their nets at the same time in three provinces and four places, and all the main suspects were arrested.
▲ The scene where the police arrested Wu Yuan.
The amount involved is hundreds of millions
A box of 30 capsules, 90 times profit per capsule.
More than 100,000 boxes of nearly 100 kinds of "brands" flow to the market.
"Hundreds of millions of consumers in China are taking slimming products. In recent years, the sale of toxic and harmful weight loss products in WeChat business has developed into a black and gray industry. Supervision is out of control and getting worse. It needs to be severely cracked down and will not be tolerated. " Wang, deputy mayor of Loudi City and director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, said.
Wu Yuan confessed that he started selling slimming products on WeChat business two years ago, and then bought semi-automatic capsule filling machines, fillers, capsule shell and sibutramine from Guangdong and Zhejiang to make slimming capsules.
Loudi police said that criminal gangs have existed for about two years. In this case, nearly 100 kinds of "brands" and more than 100,000 bottles of slimming products have flowed to the whole country. The cost of manufacturing and selling is less than 1 cent per capsule, and the finished products are mostly packed in 30 capsules, and the price is 288 yuan. After calculation, each capsule can get 90 times the profit.
In Liu Liang's office, the reporter saw some slimming products. "Gang insiders and consumers call these products' Little Green' or' Little Red', which means green packaging and red packaging." Liu Liang introduced that Zhang Feng, as a processor, sells his own brand. The following agents are divided into several levels, and the sales are increased at different levels.
▲ Counterfeit slimming products and their packaging
Ironically, the packaging of these fake and shoddy products is full of loopholes. On the "Little Green" packaging box, there is a statement that "it is not recommended to take this product under 16 and over 50 years old". Its counterfeit manufacturer does not produce slimming products at all, and the so-called anti-counterfeiting QR code on the packaging box cannot be queried at all.
Liu Liang told reporters that at present, six suspects have been arrested in this case, five of whom are post-90s. This is a typical case in WeChat business. "These suspects don't know each other. They contact through the internet, and the transaction may be through Alipay or WeChat red envelope. All aspects are isolated from each other. "
Through this illegal means, Zhang Feng completed the accumulation of wealth in two years. Peng Leping revealed that Zhang Feng has been in the business of slimming products for two years. He bought a house of 160 square meters in the county town, a car worth more than 300,000 yuan, and there are more than 700,000 cash on the books.
Where to go for weight loss products?
Flowed to all provinces and cities across the country.
Five suspects have been transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution.
At present, the task force has mastered more than 40 thousand sales records. According to these clues, it can be preliminarily determined that these slimming products have flowed to various provinces and cities across the country.
Liu Liang said that it takes a lot of manpower to sort out these clues. Next, they will unite with the local police to further track the whereabouts of these weight-loss products and find out which of these transaction record terminals are intermediary agents and which are the ultimate victims. So far, thousands of victim messages have been fed back. 10 year125 October, five of the six suspects in this case have been transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution.
A preliminary survey shows that beauty institutions account for a large proportion of the flow of these weight-loss products. The reporter's field visit confirmed that a health food store on Xinhua West Road, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, bought an "oil-expelling pill" that can "burn at night, consume fat, promote absorption and control appetite".
The victim Liu Xi bought Little Green on the recommendation of her colleague Huang Xiao. Liu Xi has fair skin and a good face, but she gained weight after giving birth. She tried massage to lose weight in the past, but the effect was not obvious. In March and April this year, she began to take a little green. First I bought a fitting, and then I took it according to the course of treatment. She described that after eating these products, she felt anorexia, irritability and insomnia, accompanied by palpitations and chest tightness, but later she felt ineffective and didn't finish eating.
At present, the task force has mastered more than 40,000 sales records (the total sales volume exceeds 654.38+10,000 bottles). "Consumers are mainly women, and the feedback from agents has made them dizzy." Liu Liang said.
Liu Xi and many other victims told reporters that they still don't know the true identity of the merchants selling slimming products, but the routine is basically the same. At first, it was in Taobao, and later merchants added it to WeChat direct sales. "The seller is a young man, who is very enthusiastic. I can't see how bad it is, but I haven't heard from him for a long time recently. "
Yao Hongmei, a woman from mangshi, Yunnan Province, said that this slimming product has a good effect, and her weight has dropped sharply from 65 kg to 45 kg. But now "the seller can't be contacted".
"These weight-loss products are foods with weight-loss effects, which belong to the health care category of special foods and need to be clearly marked with nutrients. But these are fake diet foods, which will rebound once they are stopped, so they will lose weight at the expense of health. " Peng Leping said that the correct way to lose weight is exercise and healthy diet.
The working group will also investigate the source of the illegal additive sibutramine. "However, this task is too arduous." Peng Leping said.
Fake and shoddy products kill people. We really need to crack down on them to protect people's health.