Chapter 732: Black Account
It's rare to come to Hong Kong once, Li Xiaolei naturally wants to have a good time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Not only did he play by himself, but he even called his two sisters Li Xiaohui and Han Fang, who were far away in BJ and Donghai, to pull over, three women in one play, plus he accompanied them to go shopping on the street and sweep Jiang Yanan whenever he had time, and had a lot of fun in this "shopping paradise" and "food paradise".
Han Bo didn't have time to accompany them, and they didn't need anyone to accompany them.
On the day that my sister-in-law and sister arrived in Hong Kong, they rushed back to Shenzheng, asked for the assistance of the Shenzheng Municipal Bureau, and studied the case with Li Shuo, the deputy head of the detachment, and other investigating policemen who were investigating the case in Shenzheng, and adjusted the investigation deployment in a timely manner.
After staying in Shenzheng for two days, he crossed the border again through the Lo Wu Port to inform his "brother-in-law" Kwan Xingwei and Senior Superintendent Yu Kwok-ching, the deputy head of the CCB (Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau), who was in charge of following up on the case, and to learn about the progress of the investigation in Hong Kong.
Running on both sides, I was very busy.
The hotel room not far from the police building has almost become an accountant's or auditor's office, with case materials and various account books piled up in the corner, on the desk, and even on the bed.
Many enthusiastic young people who aspire to be police officers want to be criminal policemen, and they feel that criminal police officers are real policemen.
In the opinion of Han Bo, who has successively worked in public security, criminal investigation, economic investigation, technical investigation and even anti-narcotics, it is difficult to become a competent criminal policeman, but it is even more difficult to become a qualified and competent economic investigation policeman!
Not to mention anything else, just the money laundering case that is being investigated in front of you.
The crime of money laundering is becoming more and more rampant, and almost everyone knows that there are many underground money banks, and tens of billions of dollars of funds are illegally flowing out of the country every year, and although the crime of money laundering was written into the criminal law as early as 1997, no more than 30 people have been sentenced for money laundering in various provinces in the interior to this day. In Hong Kong alone, there were 217 last year alone.
This data is embarrassing, there is no experience, no resources, and even the relevant laws are not perfect.
Compared with the shortcomings of the legislative concept, there are also institutional fetters.
If the investigation department files a case against the crime of money laundering, the intensity of its work will be particularly great, because there are many departments involved in money laundering, involving banks, taxation and customs, and there is no specific victim of the crime of money laundering. To put it bluntly, the public security organs, especially the economic investigation departments, can only play a certain role in "intimidating" money launderers.
Moreover, a perfect credit reporting system has not yet been established in China.
Even within banks, there are some difficulties in cooperating with anti-money laundering investigations.
Anti-money laundering investigations often need to inquire about the accounts opened by entities and individuals in commercial banks in the RMB account management system, the credit status of loans in the credit management system, the foreign exchange receipts and payments of enterprises and individuals in the balance of payments reporting system, and the foreign exchange purchase and settlement of domestic residents in the individual foreign exchange settlement and sales system, etc., and these systems are managed by different departments.
In addition, the AML regulatory framework is also seriously incompatible with the current AML situation.
The year before last, the PBOC established the Anti-Money Laundering Bureau and began to assume the coordination responsibilities for anti-money laundering work, which was previously the responsibility of the Ministry of Public Security. Last year, the Central Bank's Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring Center was established, which is a special analytical and intelligence agency set up by the Central Bank to perform its anti-money laundering duties, which is responsible for receiving and analyzing reports on large-value and suspicious fund transactions and handing over suspicious clues on suspected money laundering to relevant departments.
The nature of this agency is similar to that of the Hong Kong Joint Financial Intelligence Unit (JFIU), which is headed by my brother-in-law. However, it is only a public institution under the department level unit (Anti-Money Laundering Bureau), and it is obviously difficult to ask other departments to cooperate with it in the performance of its duties.
What's more, the anti-money laundering department of the central bank's primary institutions is not independent and is often attached to other departments. In particular, when it comes to cracking down on specific issues, it is absolutely inseparable from the economic investigation departments of the public security organs.
It can be seen that the frequent occurrence of important cases involving money laundering has put the unsound anti-money laundering legislation and the imperfect law enforcement system to what kind of severe tests are being faced. If he had a choice, Han Bo would rather investigate ten murders than investigate one such money laundering case.
Just thinking about it, the phone suddenly rang, and the "brother-in-law" called.
"Sir Han, did your wife come back and eat together at noon?"
"No, they won't be able to come back until they don't play until dark," Han Bo put down his pen, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window with his mobile phone, looked at the police headquarters building not far away, and asked rhetorically, "Have dinner together at noon, do you have time?"
Guan Xingwei packed up the documents in his briefcase, and said to the hands-free landline: "There are 45 minutes at noon, I went over, and the CCB just found some eyebrows, and we ate together, and chatted while eating." ”
"Well, I'll ask if there's a place in the restaurant. ”
"It's not convenient to talk in the restaurant, I'll buy it, buy it and bring it over." ”
"Okay, I'll wait for you to come over. ”
There was nothing polite to his "brother-in-law", Han Bo hung up the phone and quickly cleaned up the coffee table.
Cracking down on money laundering in general is really a bit of a "public prosecution and no accountability" for the Financial Intelligence Unit and even the Hong Kong Police Force. First, Hong Kong is an international financial center, and although no one has explicitly stated it, everyone is worried that "the water is clear and there are no fish"; second, it is also faced with the problems of insufficient resources and insufficient police force; although a relatively perfect anti-money laundering system has already been established, it is still unable to catch money laundering in the face of the grim situation of money laundering.
Although the supervision of the financial sector is relatively in place, there are still many shortcomings in some other sectors and some fields, such as real estate.
However, the Hong Kong police have been ruthless in dealing with drug trafficking syndicates, terrorist organizations, and triads in money laundering, and have always maintained a high-pressure posture.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Guan Xingwei arrived.
Han Bo took the plastic bag, took out the lunch box from it, and asked with a smile: "CCB has made progress, what have you found?"
"The CCB found that the list of persons you provided included a Hong Kong citizen with a triad background, who was a core member of the 'Harmony Harmony Group', and that there were indications that he was engaged in the sale of other people's bank accounts for money laundering, and that the profits from the sale of those accounts ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. ”
This kind of thing also exists in mainland provinces, and to put it bluntly, it is to use other ID cards to open a personal account in a bank.
Han Bo didn't think it would be so simple, so he picked up his chopsticks and listened.
Guan Xingwei didn't care about eating, took out a stack of documents from his bag and handed them over: "We found that the suspect helped the person you want to arrest set up a trading company in Hong Kong with another person's ID card, and the person you want to arrest will continue to transfer illegal himself to Hong Kong through an underground bank, and then transfer it to the trading company through dozens of bank accounts."
Since the trading company's bank account transferred between $5 million and $10 million, but the company's customer identity information on the bank was not able to support such a large amount of trading activities, the bank reported it to our Joint Financial Intelligence Unit as a suspicious payment transaction. ”
"So, you just need to find out which underground bank it is?"
"It's an underground bank for you, but it's a finance company for us. ”
"It doesn't matter whether it's an underground bank or a finance company, the important thing is that they have violated the laws of both places at the same time, and I have the right to investigate and you have the right to investigate. ”
"Therefore, Deng Sir just convened a meeting of various departments to let O Kee jointly investigate with the Commercial Crime Bureau and the Regional Crime Bureau of New Territories North, and I believe that in the next two days, many locations in Hong Kong and Kowloon will be searched, and the target gangsters and money laundering accomplices will be arrested, and it is estimated that a group of people will be arrested. ”
Hong Kong's counterparts have a clear division of labor.
As long as gangs are involved, regardless of the case involved, the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau, which has the most experience in combating gangs, will take the lead.
Han Bo nodded, held up the document and asked with a smile, "Can I bring these back?"
"Of course not, you can only watch, watch here. ”
Guan Xingwei gave him a roll of his eyes, and said angrily: "And it's useless for you to bring it back, even if you secretly take it to court, as long as my boss makes a statement, these documents will become a pile of waste paper and cannot be used as evidence." ”
This is evidence, but if Hong Kong counterparts do not admit it or endorse it, it is really a pile of waste paper.
Everything had to be done according to the procedure, Han Bo was just joking, put down the file and took a few bites of food, and asked pretending to be unhappy: "By the way, why don't you let me go to your place to sit down." Sir Deng won't turn me away, what do you mean, is it that you have an unusual relationship with a female policeman, and you are worried about being discovered by me?"
"Policewoman, how is it possible!"
"Then why?"
There are many things that people who have not reached a certain level do not know, and as a high-level police elite, Guan Xingwei is qualified to know some things that most police officers do not know.
This matter is very sensitive, but there is nothing to hide from the person in front of me.
He took a small bite of food and asked with a wry smile: "Before the return, the police force had a political department, have you heard of it?" ”
"Please, I grew up watching Hong Kong police movies, and when I didn't know what internal organs the public security were, I already knew about CID and the Flying Tigers, and I knew that 'you have the right to remain silent, and what you say will become evidence in court'. ”
"Well, you know more than I do. ”
Guan Xingwei smiled, put down his chopsticks and explained: "That department is actually not under the control of the police department, it is directly under the orders of London, and it also serves the United States. Before the return, it had been acting under the secret orders of MI5 (MI5), and counterintelligence also collected mainland intelligence for MI5, and it is said that it was also in contact with the CIA and FBI. ”
It's no secret either, Han Bo asked with a smile, "Wasn't it disbanded earlier?"
"Looks like you're just a cop. ”
"What do you mean?"
Guan Xingwei sighed lightly and said with a wry smile: "On the surface, it was disbanded, but it is rumored that London did not stop there, and secretly trained and installed a group of agents who adapted to the new situation after '97' and continued to engage in intelligence activities in Hong Kong; it is said that some backbone personnel secretly transferred overseas more than ten years ago, went into secret training for several years, and infiltrated Hong Kong with the return of immigrants in 97.
Some of them have joined the government, some have infiltrated the security agencies, and no matter how they come back, no matter what activities they are engaged in, they cannot go without funds. As long as there is a flow of black money, it can be detected by the FIU (Joint Financial Intelligence Lease), so I have to find out if my department has been infiltrated. ”
Hong Kong has long since returned to the motherland, and the special capital was appointed by the central government, and law enforcement personnel should worry about this and that, and they will even be criticized for getting too close to mainland officials.
Han Bo felt ridiculous, and asked quietly, "Those people want to make trouble?"
"When did you make a mistake without the backs of those people?"
"No matter who was in charge back then, they stayed in the police force after all, don't they have files?"
"No, in 1996, London shipped all the files of the Political Department's activities in Hong Kong back to Britain and sealed them, and the identity and file information of the Political Department were also protected. ”