After the suspect is arrested, the on-site evidence is fixed.
Recently, the Jiangbei New District Branch of Nanjing Public Security Bureau successfully cracked a case of selling and spreading obscene articles for profit in the action of Net Net 2019, cut off an industrial black chain involving shooting, selling and spreading obscene photos and videos for illegal profit, and arrested 20 suspects, involving more than 4 million yuan. Surprisingly, most of the suspects arrested by the police have high education and high income, but in order to stimulate or seek high income, they ignore the law and go to the road of no return.
Yangzi Evening News/Yangyan reporter Mei Jianming
Correspondent Jiang Jingxuan
An alarm call brought out thousands of member porn websites.
"110? I want to call the police. There is a pornographic website with many obscene photos and videos. " At the beginning of April this year, Nanjing Jiangbei New District Public Security Bureau received an alarm call from Mr. Zhang, a resident of the jurisdiction. Mr. Zhang told the police that he accidentally discovered that his son had logged into a website, and someone on it actually sold a set of obscene photos and videos at a clear price. "These photos and videos, the pictures are gaudy and vulgar, and they are basically obscene and pornographic, which is unsightly. This kind of thing will definitely have an impact on children on the Internet!" Mr Zhang said angrily.
After receiving the alarm, the police immediately started the verification work. After investigation, it was found that the photos and videos on the website mentioned by Mr. Zhang were obscene, with more than 3,000 registered members, which had a bad social impact. "This website can only see some explicit photos before logging in. After registering and recharging 300 yuan as a member, users can see some previews of all kinds of obscene photos and videos. If you want to see more or download, you need to pay another fee." Yin Zhihui, a policeman handling the case, told reporters.
According to reports, the website has set up two recharge methods: ordinary members and life-long members. The prices are 300 yuan and 1000 yuan, respectively. Only when you become a member can you buy photos and videos in the website. According to the content published on the website, the police handling the case initially determined that there was an illegal act of spreading obscenity and pornography for profit, and filed a case to start detailed evidence collection.
There are millions of obscene photos hidden in small websites, and registered photographers are spread all over many provinces.
The police investigation revealed that on the one hand, the website was contributed by registered photographers and uploaded their own obscene photos and videos in the original area; On the other hand, we set permissions on these photos and videos, and make huge profits by attracting registered members of netizens to buy them. Pictures and videos are graded according to the model’s "quality" and exposure degree, and members are charged. 60% of the illegal income is paid to the photographer as a reward, and 40% belongs to the stationmaster.
"This kind of case is different from other cases of financial infringement. Because it is not limited by geography and has the characteristics of a wide area, the social communication is more serious and the impact is very bad. " The police handling the case said. By the time of the incident, all photographers on the website platform had uploaded more than 300,000 pictures and video files, attracting more than 3,000 registered Vip members.
After fixing the online evidence, the police began to trace the identity of the suspect. Since all the suspects are fictitious identities, it is very difficult to verify their true identities. Moreover, the website server is located outside the country and has complicated encryption programs. With the cooperation of the network security department, the police quickly identified the identity of Zhang, the stationmaster of the website. After careful investigation, the identities of more than ten photographers all over the country were also determined one by one. At this point, a criminal gang involved in the illegal dissemination of obscene articles in 7 provinces and 9 cities across the country surfaced.
The police closed the net at the same time in 7 provinces and 9 cities, and arrested 20 suspects in one fell swoop.
After finding out the criminal facts of the gang and the situation of the people involved, Nanjing Jiangbei New District Public Security Bureau and Nanjing Public Security Bureau Netan Detachment immediately held a case deployment promotion meeting, organized more than 100 police officers to form a project force, and the soldiers were divided into seven roads to go to Guangzhou, Sichuan, Hunan, Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu and other seven provinces and nine cities to make arrests.
After arriving at the destination, the police of the task force immediately carried out investigations regardless of the fatigue of long-distance raids. Because we are fighting in different places, we are unfamiliar with each other, and the investigation work is very difficult. After four days of investigation, the police of the task force finally figured out the residence and work schedule of all suspects, overcoming the unfavorable factors such as unclear situation and physical fatigue in continuous operations.
Subsequently, the task force decided to carry out a unified arrest operation. After more than ten hours of continuous waiting, the stationmaster Zhang was first captured at home. After on-site inquiry and fixed evidence, Zhang confessed to his illegal and criminal facts. After Zhang was arrested, the arresting forces in other provinces closed the net at the same time. In this unified arrest operation, 20 suspects were arrested and more than 10 computers were seized, and finally the criminal gang suspected of illegally spreading obscene articles for profit was completely destroyed.
There are many suspects with high salaries and high academic qualifications, and some even quit their jobs to specialize in this line.
After the trial, according to Zhang, one of the suspects, he created a personal website to share his photographic works in 2012 because of his hobby of photography, but the website has not been as popular as he expected. In order to attract popularity, Zhang renamed the website in 2014, and collected some exposed pictures from the Internet and posted them on his website, and the click-through rate really increased. At the beginning of 2016, a netizen contacted Zhang actively, saying that he could provide pornographic pictures for Zhang’s website for a fee. It was this cooperation that made Zhang find a "financial road", so he simply quit his job, rented an overseas server and started a website full-time.
After more than two years of operation, the website has attracted dozens of photographers. Most of these photographers have received higher education from universities, and the highest degree is postgraduate. Not only that, many of them have stable and well-paid jobs. Because of the considerable and rapid benefits brought by shooting and publishing obscene pictures and videos, these people have joined in one after another and become full-time or part-time photographers of the website. The suspect Niu originally had an enviable high-paying job in Shanghai. At the beginning of 2017, Niu accidentally visited the website. Because he knew P pictures, he joined the website and became a part-time photographer under the temptation of interests. In just two years, Niu contributed more than 20,000 pieces to the website, making an illegal profit of more than 700,000 yuan.
The reporter learned that most of these suspects are young people in their early twenties. Because of their weak legal awareness, they embarked on the road of illegal crimes, but they never thought that they had damaged the physical and mental health of more peers. At present, the case is still under further investigation and deep excavation.