Upon trial, it was found that from February to September 2017, the defendant <Defendant A>, at locations including No. 64 Qishan West Road, Huanggu District, Shenyang City, fabricated his ability to arrange jobs to victims Gao Mou1 and Gao Mou2. After gaining the trust of victims Gao Mou1 and Gao Mou2, <Defendant A> instructed the defendant <Defendant B> to impersonate Human Resources Section Chief Chi Mou twice within the Shen Mou Courtyard. <Defendant B> handed over job transfer procedures to the victims. The victims Gao Mou1 and Gao Mou2 paid a total of RMB 25,000 to <Defendant A> via bank transfer as service fees. The illicit money has been squandered.


Upon examination, it was found that on June 10, 2020, defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were hired by others to be responsible for renting rooms, receiving clients, collecting prostitution fees, and other activities assisting in organizing prostitution at a certain hotel located at XXX Tangjiadun Road, Jianghan District, in this city. On the same day, based on a tip-off, the police apprehended defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> at the aforementioned prostitution venue and also detained prostitutes He XX, Mao XX, Liu XX, Gong XX, Chen XX, among others.

Crime of Facilitating the Organisation of Prostitution


Upon trial, it was found that: At around 19:00 on October 13, 2017, the defendant <Defendant A> falsely claimed to be purchasing a second-hand car at Jikai Trading Co., Ltd. in Baiyin District. Under the pretext of having someone inspect the vehicle's condition, <Defendant A> deceived and took away a gray Changan van with the license plate number ×××. Later that evening, at around 21:00, near the Shuichuan Cross in Baiyin District, <Defendant A> pawned the van to the defendant <Defendant B>. <Defendant B> accepted the van without verifying its true origin. According to the appraisal by the Baiyin District Price Certification Center in Baiyin City, the stolen Changan van with the license plate number ××× was valued at 14,636 yuan. After the incident, the stolen vehicle was recovered and returned to the victim.


After trial, it was found that starting from November 2, 2019, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, <Defendant D>, and "Qiqi" (at large) conspired to use an internet WeChat group to organize prostitution activities in a homestay. The defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> were responsible for soliciting and receiving clients, collecting fees from clients via WeChat and Alipay, and establishing work schedules, attendance methods, and commission rates for the prostitutes. <Defendant D> was mainly responsible for financial affairs. At around 11 PM on November 24, 2019, the police apprehended the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and <Defendant D> in a homestay located at Building 5, Taiji Nantang Community, No. 4 Jialing Road, Wuhou District, in this city. At the scene, the police also seized 6 prostitutes, 5 clients, one ledger, and 4 mobile phones.

Crime of Facilitating the Organisation of Prostitution


Upon trial, it was found that on September 9, 2010, and March 17, 2011, the defendant <Defendant A>, who was already heavily in debt and had no assets or ability to repay, falsely claimed that the Binzhou Xinwei Industrial and Trade Co., Ltd., which he operated, was performing well but only had temporary cash flow difficulties and needed to purchase decoration materials. Under this pretense, he, along with the defendant <Defendant B>, borrowed money twice from Shandong Shengtai Investment Guarantee Co., Ltd. <Defendant B> used a forged seal of Shandong Haoxin Investment Guarantee Co., Ltd. and falsely claimed that Shandong Haoxin Investment Guarantee Co., Ltd. was providing a guarantee for <Defendant A>, borrowing 1 million yuan each time from Shandong Shengtai Investment Guarantee Co., Ltd. After receiving the loan, <Defendant A> used most of the funds to repay previous high-interest personal loans and, on March 21, 2011, purchased a Volkswagen Passat car from Binzhou Heshou Automobile Sales Co., Ltd. for 234,000 yuan. He also used part of the loan for daily expenses with <Defendant B>. After the 2 million yuan loan matured, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were unable to repay and absconded.


Upon trial, it was found that the defendants, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>, are married. In March 2017, they rented a courtyard in Yudi Village, Beiwutown, Shunyi District, Beijing, where they subsequently stored liquor for sale. On January 5, 2019, the Shunyi Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau apprehended <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> in the rented courtyard and seized 1,131 boxes of liquor on-site, including brands such as "Niulanshan," "Hongxing," "Luzhou Laojiao," "Fenjiu," "Yanghe," "Guizhou Maotai," "Jiannanchun," "Shuijingfang," and "Wuliangye." According to the trademark ownership unit's identification, all the aforementioned liquor was counterfeit products bearing registered trademarks. The assessed value of these counterfeit goods amounted to over 1 million yuan. During the court trial, regarding...

Offence of Selling Counterfeit Registered Goods


After the trial, it was found that on July 5, 2019, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> jointly rented a house from villager Pang in Qingxi Town, Shaoshan City, under the guise of operating a "massage parlor." They organized women such as Tian, Wang, and Deng to provide various sexual services to clients multiple times within the "massage parlor" or at certain hotels and inns, charging different amounts for these services. Defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were responsible for the management and operation of the "massage parlor" and hired defendant <Defendant C> to cook for the prostitutes, distribute solicitation cards to various hotels, negotiate the prices of sexual services, transport prostitutes to and from external locations, and collect the fees from clients. Defendant <Defendant C> received a payment of 50 yuan each time they transported a prostitute for external services, and any amount exceeding the set price negotiated with clients was kept by <Defendant C>. The massage parlor provided food and accommodation for the prostitutes, was responsible for soliciting clients, and collected fees, not allowing the prostitutes to solicit clients independently. The parlor took one-third of the fees per transaction, returning two-thirds to the prostitutes. On August 22, 2019, the Shaoshan City Public Security Bureau conducted an inspection of the "massage parlor" and found two prostitutes engaging in sexual transactions with two clients on-site. Defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and other individuals present were apprehended on the spot. Regarding the defense of defendant <Defendant A>,

Crime of Facilitating the Organisation of Prostitution


After the trial, it was found that in late February 2019, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> were aware that others were organizing prostitution activities involving prostitutes providing oral sex and sexual intercourse in various rooms from the fourth to the tenth floor of a specific hotel located on Manchun Street, Jianghan District, in this city. Despite knowing this, they were recruited by others to assist near the aforementioned hotel by using WeChat to help receive clients, select prostitutes for the clients, and assist in collecting prostitution fees. At around 22:00 on March 5, 2019, while others were organizing prostitutes to provide services to clients at the aforementioned location, the public security authorities apprehended seven prostitutes, namely Zhou, Wang1, Wang2, Liu, Wan, Lu, and Song, as well as two clients, Yang and Zhu, on the spot. The public security authorities arrested the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> at the scene and seized four mobile phones used as tools for the crime.


Upon trial, it was found that defendant <Defendant A> from August 2017 to June 2018, rented housing in the Yuefeng Xincheng community of Jin'an District, Fuzhou, and in Room ××, Changping Village, Changping Township, Anxi County, and posted false part-time job advertisements on the Internet, leaving a contact QQ number. When someone inquired, <Defendant A> would induce the victim to click on shopping links and scan the QR code provided by the "mall" to make payments or transfers under the guise of part-time reputation brushing. Finally, <Defendant A> would obtain card codes from the "mall" and sell them for profit. Additionally, <Defendant A> falsely claimed via QQ to provide services such as "mobile screen push" and "part-time fraud advertisements," deceiving criminals engaged in fraud and online gambling into transferring money into a designated bank account. By the time of apprehension, <Defendant A> had defrauded a total of 197,116.32 yuan. In May 2018, defendant <Defendant B>, knowing that the funds in the bank account 62×××69 (account holder Luo Wenting) were proceeds from <Defendant A>'s criminal activities, twice used the bank card to withdraw 20,000 yuan each time from ATMs in Anxi County, totaling 40,000 yuan. Furthermore, <Defendant B> illegally set up "Mark Six" lottery betting points in Room ××, Changping Village, Changping Township, Anxi County, and sold "Mark Six" lottery tickets to individuals such as Chen, Yu, and Wang, totaling 61,030 yuan, with illegal profits amounting to 7,330 yuan. After being brought to justice, <Defendant B> truthfully confessed to their crimes.


Upon trial, it was found that between January 2018 and June 14, 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> repeatedly harbored individuals such as Wang Mou1 and Zhou Mou1 for prostitution activities in the Luocheng Bathhouse they operated, illegally profiting approximately 30,000 RMB. The facts are as follows:

1. Around June 7, 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> harbored Wang Mou1 and Wang Mou3 for prostitution activities in the Luocheng Bathhouse, profiting 200 RMB.
2. On the afternoon of June 11, 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> harbored Wang Mou1 and Wang Mou2 for prostitution activities in the Luocheng Bathhouse, profiting 200 RMB.
3. On the evening of June 12, 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> harbored Wang Mou1 and He Mou for prostitution activities in the Luocheng Bathhouse, profiting 200 RMB.
4. On the evening of June 14, 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> harbored Wang Mou1 and Shi Mou for prostitution activities in the Luocheng Bathhouse, profiting 200 RMB.
5. On the evening of June 14, 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> harbored Zhou Mou1 and Qin Mou for prostitution activities in the Luocheng Bathhouse, profiting 200 RMB.

On June 14, 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were apprehended by the public security authorities.


Upon trial, it was found that in early 2017, the defendant, <Defendant A>, frequently visited the restaurant owned by Chu, located by the Gaoyi City Airport Road, for meals, and the two became acquainted. On April 24, 2017, <Defendant A> went to Chu's restaurant and claimed that there was an urgent matter at home requiring a car. <Defendant A> then drove away Chu's Jetta car with license plate Ji A×××××. On the same day, <Defendant A> drove the car to the premium second-hand car dealership owned by <Defendant B> in Baojiazhuang Village. <Defendant A> claimed that the car belonged to a relative and pawned it to <Defendant B> in exchange for 30,000 yuan. Despite knowing that the car's documents were incomplete and without strictly verifying the vehicle's information, <Defendant B> processed the pawn transaction and handed over 30,000 yuan to <Defendant A>. Subsequently, <Defendant B> was unable to contact <Defendant A> and privately arranged for someone to alter the car's chassis and engine numbers and install a fake license plate, intending to sell the car. However, due to fear, the car was never sold. Eventually, the police seized the car and returned it to Chu. After <Defendant A> drove away with the car, Chu continuously contacted <Defendant A> to retrieve the car. <Defendant A> fabricated false reasons to delay, and later changed phone numbers, making it impossible for Chu and <Defendant B> to reach <Defendant A>. According to the price certification, the Jetta car was valued at 58,000 yuan.


Upon trial, it was found that the defendant <Defendant B> and the defendant <Defendant A> are father and son. From 2015 to 2016, the defendant <Defendant A> purchased nail guns, steel balls, and other accessories from Taobao and privately modified them into a gun-like object, which was hidden under the bed in the west-side bedroom on the first floor of his current residence.

Offences of Illegal Manufacture of Firearms

Offences of Illegal Possession of Firearms


After the trial, it was found that at around 14:00 on October 4, 2019, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> had a fight with their neighbor Huang Mou2 due to a dispute over an adjacent passage. <Defendant B> used an iron shovel, <Defendant C> used a wooden stick, and <Defendant A> used an iron shovel, a steel rod, and a wooden stick to beat Huang Mou2, causing multiple contusions and abrasions all over Huang Mou2's body and a fracture in the lower segment of the right fibula. After Huang Mou3 arrived at the scene, he was hit on the head by <Defendant A> with a steel rod, resulting in injuries and falling to the ground. Nong Mou1 arrived shortly after and attempted to help the injured and fallen Huang Mou3 but was struck on the left shoulder by <Defendant A> with a steel rod, causing a fracture in the left clavicle. According to the forensic identification conducted by the Tian'e County Public Security Bureau, the degree of bodily injury for both Huang Mou2 and Nong Mou1 was comprehensively evaluated as minor injury level two, while the degree of bodily injury for Huang Mou3 was comprehensively evaluated as serious injury level two.


After trial, it was found: On December 26, 2017, at approximately 11 PM, the defendant <Defendant A>, along with Xu and the victim Zhou, had a dispute over the management of a bar named Twilight Bar located at Changhai Building, Tiancheng Street, Longquan Subdistrict, Wuxing District in this city. Later, at the entrance of the bar, under the instigation of the defendant <Defendant A>, the defendant <Defendant B> used a broken bottle to stab the victim's head, and the defendant <Defendant C> used fists and kicks to randomly assault the victim Zhou, causing a laceration on the left side of the victim Zhou's face. According to the assessment, the victim Zhou sustained a Grade 2 minor injury. After the incident, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> compensated the victim with RMB 150,000 and obtained the victim's forgiveness.

Crime of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Troubles


Upon trial, it was found that between October and November 2016, the defendant <Defendant A> purchased a nail gun for renovation from Taobao and also bought steel pipes, sleeves, and other materials online. Through self-processing and modification, he created a gun that could fire steel balls using gunpowder as the propellant. Later, he used this gun multiple times for hunting together with the defendant <Defendant B>. After using it for several months, in March or April 2017, he left the gun at the home of the defendant <Defendant B>, who kept and used it. In September 2017, the defendant <Defendant B> sent the gun to the home of his friend, the defendant <Defendant C>, who kept it but did not use it. On November 17, 2017, police officers from the Dahuxu Police Station of the Liuyang Public Security Bureau, acting on a tip-off from higher authorities, seized the self-made gun from the home of the defendant <Defendant C>. Forensic examination determined that the self-made gun had the structure of a civilian firearm capable of firing metal projectiles using gunpowder as the propellant and classified it as a firearm. On November 17, 2017, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were apprehended, and on December 13 of the same year, the defendant <Defendant C> was also apprehended. All three defendants truthfully confessed after being brought to justice.

Offences of Illegal Possession of Firearms


Upon trial, it was found that from May to July 2019, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> manufactured and produced counterfeit electrical wires bearing the "Kun Electrician" trademark in a factory located in Panlong District, Kunming City. They printed the words "Kunming Cable Co., Ltd." on the wires and affixed "Kunming Cable Group Wire Co., Ltd. Qualification Certificate" labels. After the counterfeit wires were made into finished products, they were transported to an underground warehouse at Plot 10, Building 5, Guandu District, Kunming City for storage. Defendant <Defendant C> then delivered the counterfeit cables to customers. On July 5, 2019, the police seized a total of 2,162 rolls of electrical wires labeled with the "Kun Electrician" brand in five models: BVR-450/750V1×6, BVR-450/750V1×4, BVR-450/750V1×2.5, BVR-450/750V1×1.5, and BV-450/750V1×4, as well as production materials, machinery, and other items from the factory and the Helen International underground warehouse. According to the appraisal by Kunming Cable Group Co., Ltd., the aforementioned wires were all counterfeit goods bearing a registered trademark. The Kunming Price Monitoring and Cost Investigation Bureau determined that the total price of the counterfeit registered trademark goods involved in the case was RMB 430,462.

Offence of Counterfeiting a Registered Trademark


Upon trial, it was found that around midnight on August 18, 2017, the victim Feng and witnesses Li and Zhang were invited to drink with Si and Er at the "Draft Beer City" in Shangpa Town, Fugong County. During the drinking session, the defendants, <Defendant A> (Si's boyfriend) and <Defendant B>, joined the group. During the drinking session, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> had an unpleasant altercation with Feng over trivial matters and left early, with Zhang also leaving at that time. About half an hour later, when Feng, Li, and the others finished drinking and were about to drive home from the entrance of "Draft Beer City," <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and two others who were invited, "Haozi" and "Abiao," assaulted Feng and Li. On March 16, 2018, according to the Fugong County Public Security Judicial Appraisal Center, Feng's injuries were assessed as minor injuries of the second degree. On December 25, 2019, the Fugong County Price Certification Center determined that the value of Feng's damaged phone was 2,689 RMB.


Upon trial, it was found that around 3 a.m. on July 9, 2018, after drinking at the Langma Hall of Shangri-La in Bayi District, Nyingchi City, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and <Defendant D> walked to the intersection of the Nyingchi City Bayi District Passenger Station. There, they saw the victim Ma Mou1 and his friends Ma Mou2, Su Menai, Qi Mou, and Bai Mou passing by. <Defendant B> suggested provoking the victim Ma Mou1, who was walking across from them. <Defendant C> then went ahead and bumped the victim Ma Mou1 with his shoulder, leading to a dispute and scuffle. <Defendant D> and <Defendant B> stepped forward to join <Defendant C> in grabbing and pushing the victim Ma Mou1. Qi Mou and others tried to intervene. The victim Ma Mou1 was thrown to the ground by <Defendant B>. After the victim Ma Mou1 got up, <Defendant C> and others rushed to beat him. Qi Mou continuously tried to dissuade <Defendant C> and others from fighting. <Defendant A> blocked Ma Mou2, who was accompanying the victim Ma Mou1, and hit him in the face with a beer can, chasing him away from the fight scene. Later, <Defendant A> struck the back of the victim Ma Mou1's head with a cobblestone, causing him to bleed and faint on the ground. The four defendants immediately fled the scene upon seeing this. According to the forensic identification by the Sichuan Huaxi Forensic Medicine Identification Center, the victim Ma Mou1 suffered a secondary severe injury due to external trauma leading to intracranial hemorrhage, fractures of the inner and outer walls of the right eye socket, multiple skull fractures, and diplopia in the left eye as a sequela of head trauma, all of which constitute secondary minor injuries. The forensic identification opinion report No. 2019-36 was issued accordingly.

Crime of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Troubles


Upon trial, it was found that on November 20, 2018, the defendant <Defendant B> drove with the defendant <Defendant C> to the home of the defendant <Defendant A>. The two borrowed a nail gun from the defendant <Defendant A> for bird shooting, and later placed the nail gun and the remaining nail gun cartridges in the trunk of a white Honda car with the license plate Yun A××××× owned by the defendant <Defendant B>. At around 9 PM on November 22, 2018, officers from the Traffic Police Brigade of the Luoping County Public Security Bureau discovered the nail gun and nail gun cartridges in the vehicle of the defendant <Defendant B> during an inspection in Luoping County. According to the forensic identification by the Qujing Public Security Bureau Forensic Identification Center, the suspected firearms illegally possessed by the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> are powered by gunpowder, have injurious capability, and are classified as firearms under the "Firearms Control Law of the People's Republic of China".

Offences of Illegal Possession of Firearms


Upon trial, it was found that at the end of 2015, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> saw Ye Jianhong (suspected of participating in a criminal organization of a gang nature, to be dealt with in a separate case) returning from hunting with a gun in Hekou Village, Erdu Town, Yihuang County. They approached Ye Jianhong to talk and inquired about the source of the gun, learning that Ye Jianhong could process and manufacture firearms. The three defendants then asked Ye Jianhong to help each of them make a shotgun, to which Ye Jianhong immediately agreed and requested the three defendants provide the main materials for manufacturing the guns. He also directed the three defendants to a hardware store at Yihuang Station to make the purchase. Subsequently, <Defendant B> and <Defendant C> went to the hardware store and bought three nail guns used for decoration (one of which was bought on behalf of <Defendant A> with his consent) and handed them over to Ye Jianhong, along with a processing fee of 1500 yuan. Shortly thereafter, Ye Jianhong modified the three nail guns into homemade firearms powered by gunpowder and handed them over to the three defendants. On May 15, 2017, <Defendant A>'s mother, Ou, voluntarily handed over <Defendant A>'s modified firearm to the Erdu Police Station of the Yihuang County Public Security Bureau. On August 29, 2018, <Defendant C>'s father, Chen, voluntarily handed over the modified firearms of <Defendant C> and <Defendant B> to the Chongren County Public Security Bureau. According to the appraisal by the Fuzhou City Public Security Judicial Appraisal Center, the three firearms were all non-standard guns powered by gunpowder to fire projectiles.

Offences of Illegal Manufacture of Firearms


Upon trial, it was found that at approximately 2:40 AM on November 26, 2018, the defendant <Defendant C> and <Defendant B>, along with others, were walking intoxicated to the intersection of Feng'an Road and Gaodui Road in Dafeng Street, Xindu District, Chengdu City, when they encountered the defendant <Defendant A> and a group of seven people. Both parties had a verbal altercation over trivial matters, after which <Defendant B> and <Defendant C> approached the other party with batons and electric rods and began to assault them. The other party fled the scene upon seeing this, but <Defendant A> failed to escape and was struck on the head with a baton by <Defendant B>. Subsequently, Hu Moumou, Xu Moumou, and four women returned. <Defendant A> and Xu Moumou knocked <Defendant C> down, and <Defendant A> sat on <Defendant C> and assaulted his head. During this period, <Defendant C> used an electric rod to hit <Defendant A>. After the assault, <Defendant A>, Xu Moumou, and Hu Moumou fled the scene. Subsequently, <Defendant C> and <Defendant B> used verbal threats to keep Zeng Mou, Zhang Moumou, Kong Mou, and Wang Mou at the scene and demanded them to kneel. During this period, <Defendant C> assaulted the faces of Kong Mou, Zhang Moumou, and Wang Mou. At around 3 AM, the police arrived at the scene after receiving a report and apprehended the defendants <Defendant C> and <Defendant B>. At around 12 PM on the same day, the defendant <Defendant A> received a phone call from the police and voluntarily went to the public security authorities to accept investigation and truthfully confessed his criminal behavior. According to the assessment, the injury degree of <Defendant A> was minor, and the injury degree of <Defendant C> was minor injury level 2.


Upon trial, it was found that on February 5, 2019, the defendant <Defendant A>, knowing that his friend Sun was suspected of a crime, lent his apartment located in Yutian Community, Harbin, to Sun for residence. During this period, the defendant <Defendant B> became acquainted with Sun through <Defendant A> and was aware that Sun was suspected of a crime. In the summer of the same year, the defendant <Defendant C>, while accompanying his child to Beijing for medical treatment and passing through Harbin, entrusted <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> to deliver 10,000 yuan in cash to his brother Sun. <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> transferred 4,000 yuan to Sun via WeChat and used the remaining 6,000 yuan in cash to rent an apartment for Sun on Nanjing Road, Harbin. While Sun was residing there, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> provided him with daily necessities. From September to December of the same year, <Defendant B> also helped Sun purchase an OPPO mobile phone and lent him 4,800 yuan for living expenses. After investigation, defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were arrested by the police in Harbin on December 13, 2019, and truthfully confessed their criminal activities upon arrival. Defendant <Defendant C> was summoned by phone and arrived on December 22, 2019, and truthfully confessed his criminal activities. All three defendants voluntarily pleaded guilty and accepted punishment.


Upon trial, it was found that the defendant <Defendant A>, without obtaining a designated pig slaughtering certificate, colluded with the defendant <Defendant B> to set up an illegal pig slaughterhouse at his home in Sima Village, Sima Group 11, Heshi Town, Taixing City, to slaughter pigs and sell the pork and other products. From August 30, 2017, to August 27, 2019, the defendant <Defendant A> slaughtered 557 pigs at his illegal slaughterhouse, with an illegal business amount totaling RMB 742,158 and illegal profits amounting to RMB 40,000. Among these, the defendant <Defendant B> participated in the slaughter of 545 pigs, with an illegal business amount totaling RMB 721,313 and illegal profits amounting to RMB 30,000. After the crime was discovered, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> voluntarily surrendered to the public security authorities and truthfully confessed the above criminal facts. On August 27, 2019, the Taixing Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau seized and confiscated 51.3 kilograms of illegally slaughtered pork, 23.3 kilograms of pig by-products, 3 skinning benches, 3 knives, 13 hooks, 1 scale, and 1 knife sharpening rod at the home of the defendant <Defendant A> (all temporarily stored in the cold storage of Jiangsu Baihui Agricultural Development Co., Ltd.). During the trial in this court, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> each returned illegal gains of RMB 40,000 and RMB 30,000 respectively, and each prepaid fines of RMB 40,000 and RMB 30,000 respectively.


Upon trial, it was found that since June 2018, the defendant <Defendant A>, both individually and in collusion with the defendant <Defendant B>, rented a house from Gui at a price of 6000 yuan per year in Qiyang County. They used this house to harbor women, including Wang and an unidentified deaf-mute woman, for prostitution activities. Wang and others solicited clients at a price of 30 yuan per session, from which the two defendants took 5 yuan as a fee for providing the venue. By the time the case was uncovered, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> had illegally profited a total of 12,000 yuan. On April 23, 2020, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were apprehended at their rented accommodation behind the former Yanggulao Village Committee in Qiyang County. After being brought to justice, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> voluntarily and truthfully confessed their crimes and willingly signed a statement of admission of guilt and acceptance of punishment. The People's Procuratorate of Qiyang County charged the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> with the crime of harboring prostitution and suggested that this court sentence the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> to seven months of imprisonment each, along with a fine of four thousand yuan each.


Upon trial, it was found that at the beginning of 2016, defendant <Defendant B>, without any source of funding, registered the Zhongwangyuan Company in Zhaozhuang Village, Shidong Township, Wu'an City, along with others, to develop the "Wu'an City Zen Culture Wisdom Creative Industry Park" project, serving as the legal representative of the company. Subsequently, <Defendant B> and defendant <Defendant A> signed a business management agreement and a financing power of attorney to jointly operate the project. <Defendant A> was responsible for the general contracting of the project's construction activities. Despite both defendants knowing that neither had any source of funding or the capability to develop and construct the project, they proceeded to develop and construct it together. <Defendant A> subcontracted the project externally and required the construction teams to pre-finance the construction. Additionally, they collected "breach of contract deposits" from the construction teams to be used by <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, Zhongwangyuan Company, and "Hua Company." According to the appraisal by the Hebei Shexian Yongli Judicial Accounting Appraisal Center, a total of 5.6 million yuan in deposits was fraudulently obtained from construction teams such as He Mou and Quyang County Jinjiu Sculpture Co., Ltd., which cannot be returned.


After trial, it was found that at around 9 a.m. on August 6, 2016, at the vegetable market on the west side of the south gate of Huaining Coal Mine in Ningyang County, the defendant <Defendant A> had a dispute with the victim Gao over trivial matters and injured him. According to the forensic identification, Gao suffered from bilateral chronic subdural hematoma classified as minor injury of the first degree, multiple rib fractures classified as minor injury of the second degree, and facial soft tissue injuries classified as minor injury. After the incident, the defendant <Defendant A> fled. His wife, the defendant <Defendant D>, knowing that he was suspected of a crime, still helped him evade legal pursuit, and they lived together in various places including Beijing and Jiaozhou, Qingdao. Later, the defendant <Defendant A> was put on the online wanted list by the public security organs. The defendant <Defendant B>, knowing that <Defendant A> was suspected of a crime, still provided accommodation for <Defendant A>, helped him evade capture, and instigated the defendant <Defendant C> to use his identity card to rent a house and obtain a mobile phone card for <Defendant A>, resulting in <Defendant A> being on the run for a long time without being brought to justice. During the litigation, the defendant <Defendant A> reached a settlement agreement with the victim Gao, who expressed forgiveness. The defense counsel for the defendant <Defendant A> argued that after being brought to justice, <Defendant A> showed remorse and actively compensated the victim for economic losses, and suggested that the court impose a lighter punishment.


Upon trial, it was found that on the evening of September 29, 2017, Xu Shigang (already sentenced) had a dispute with Yu Mou near the 203rd Army in Xuecheng District over trivial matters. Subsequently, after Xu Shigang contacted Chu Zhenhua, Chu Zhenhua, Song Erhu, Zhao Yadong (handled in a separate case), and others went to the vicinity of the 203rd Army separately. During this period, Li Bin (handled in a separate case) drove and invited the defendants <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and <Defendant A> to go together. At around 11 p.m. that night, the defendants <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and <Defendant A>, along with Xu Shigang, Chu Zhenhua, Gao Weiwei, and others, injured the victims Yu Mou, Ma Mou, and Cui Mou. According to forensic identification, the injuries sustained by victims Yu Mou and Ma Mou constituted minor injuries. On July 23, 2019, the defendant <Defendant A> voluntarily surrendered to the public security authorities.


After the trial, it was found that between December 2017 and August 2019, the defendant <Defendant A>, in order to seek illegal profits, hired others to use purchased web crawler software to obtain information on newly opened stores on Taobao. Posing as Taobao customer service personnel, <Defendant A> sent false information to store owners, such as notifications that their stores were not activated or that transactions were closed. Under the guise of helping the store owners resolve these issues, <Defendant A> deceived the victims into agreeing to remote assistance and providing their Alipay accounts and passwords. Subsequently, <Defendant A> used remote computer operations to recharge video accounts using the victims' Alipay accounts. During this period, the defendant <Defendant B>, in order to profit, purchased the video accounts recharged by <Defendant A> at a 30% discount and then resold them at a higher price. Investigations revealed that <Defendant B> paid a total of over 1.6 million yuan to <Defendant A> for the acquisition of video accounts. <Defendant A> was arrested on August 2, 2019, and <Defendant B> was arrested on August 12 of the same month. Both defendants truthfully confessed to the aforementioned criminal facts after being brought to justice. After the incident, the family of <Defendant A> compensated the victims, Cao, in the amount of 8,564 yuan, and Gu, in the amount of 13,458 yuan.


After trial, it was found that: From December 2017 to January 2018, the defendant <Defendant A> organized and managed multiple prostitutes for selection by clients at No. XXX Caobao Road, Xuhui District, this city. Once a client selected a prostitute and paid the fee, arrangements were made for them to engage in prostitution activities at a hotel located at No. XXX Caobao Road, this city. During this period, the defendant <Defendant B> assisted <Defendant A> in work arrangements, and Zhang Mou1, Yang Mou1, <Defendant C>, Zhao Mou1, and Yang Mou2 followed relevant instructions and arrangements to engage in tasks such as posting information, receiving and guiding clients, booking rooms, accounting, and cleaning rooms. On January 16, 2018, when public security personnel conducted an inspection at a certain hotel, they found Kuang Moumou (born on October 24, 2000), Liu Moumou, Huang Mou1, Zhang Mou2, Guo Mou, Ma Moumou, Cui Mou1, Li Moumou, and more than twenty others engaged in prostitution activities and arrested the defendants <Defendant C>, Zhao Mou1, and Yang Mou2 at the scene. Additionally, public security personnel arrested the defendants <Defendant A>, Zhang Mou1, and Yang Mou1 at No. XXX Caobao Road, this city, and apprehended more than ten prostitutes. On February 28, 2018, the defendant <Defendant B> was arrested by public security personnel at their residence in a village in Chaijia Township, Hejin City, Shanxi Province. According to forensic accounting, the Alipay account of <Defendant A> received a total of over 850,000 yuan during the aforementioned period. After being brought to justice, the defendants <Defendant A>, Zhang Mou1, Yang Mou1, <Defendant C>, and Yang Mou2 successively confessed to the basic facts of the case, while the defendant <Defendant B> did not confess to the main facts of the case.


Upon trial, it was found that between 2016 and 2017, the defendant <Defendant A> purchased a nail gun and modification parts for the nail gun through Taobao and modified it into a suspected firearm. The defendant <Defendant A> also, at the request of his brother Yi (commissioned by the defendant <Defendant B>), helped purchase a seamless steel pipe for <Defendant B> on Taobao. In June 2018, the defendant <Defendant B> purchased a nail gun and modification parts for the nail gun through JD.com and used the purchased nail gun, parts, and the seamless steel pipe bought by Yi to modify it into a suspected firearm. The aforementioned two suspected firearms, 51 bullets, and 225 steel ball bullets have been seized. According to the appraisal, the suspected firearms modified by the two defendants using nail guns and parts purchased online are modified powder guns that use gunpowder as the propellant to fire bullets, and they are classified as firearms with injurious power. On January 26, 2019, the defendant <Defendant A> was arrested and brought to justice and was criminally detained on the same day. On January 28 of the same year, the defendant <Defendant B> was arrested and brought to justice and was criminally detained the following day. After being brought to justice, both defendants truthfully confessed their crimes.


Upon trial, it was found that from May to July 2018, the defendant <Defendant A>, along with Chen Hao and Liu Ji (both already sentenced), recruited and managed prostitutes at the clubhouse on the third floor of Haijia Apartment, No. XXX, Jingaolu, Pudong New Area, Shanghai. They organized the prostitution activities of He 21, Zhou XX, Yu XX, Lu XX, Lin XX, Zou XX, Li XX, Yang XX, Qi XX, and many other prostitutes by assigning them uniform numbers, setting uniform prices, and collecting uniform fees. During this period, the defendants <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and others were responsible for soliciting clients for prostitution through social platforms such as QQ and WeChat. On the evening of July 25, 2018, prostitute Yu XX and client Chai XX were caught by the police at the above-mentioned location while attempting to engage in prostitution.


Upon trial, it was found that around 18:00 on December 31, 2017, the defendant <Defendant A> discovered that Bai Moujia (a neighbor living upstairs) had sent flirtatious WeChat messages to his girlfriend Feng Mou. <Defendant A> then used Feng Mou's WeChat to lure Bai Moujia to his home. Subsequently, <Defendant A> opened the door and called the defendant <Defendant B> to come over and help. He then had Feng Mou wait on the sofa in the living room for Bai Moujia, while <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> hid in the bedroom. When Bai Moujia entered and hugged Feng Mou, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> rushed out of the bedroom, restrained Bai Moujia, and forced him to kneel on the ground. <Defendant A> used a water heater hose and a slipper to beat Bai Moujia on the head, back, and face. After the beating, <Defendant A> instructed <Defendant B> to accompany Bai Moujia to his home to retrieve 10,000 yuan in cash and hand it over to <Defendant A>. After receiving the money, <Defendant A> confiscated Bai Moujia's mobile phone and then allowed him to go home. On January 3, 2018, Bai Moujia was found dead at his home. According to a forensic autopsy conducted by the Horqin Right Front Banner Public Security Judicial Appraisal Center, the cause of death was massive hemorrhage due to rupture of the heart and pulmonary artery. After the incident, the defendant <Defendant A> provided the police with information about the fugitive, leading to the apprehension of the suspect. During the litigation process, the close relatives of the defendant <Defendant A> returned the involved amount of 10,000 yuan. While <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were on the run, the defendant <Defendant C> knowingly helped them by driving and hiding them, despite being aware that they were fugitives.


After the trial, it was found that starting in July 2018, <Defendant A>, with the intent of making a profit, recruited eight prostitutes: Ren Mou, Zhao Mou, Ma Mou, Mi Mou, Zhang Mou, Wu Mou, Jianjira Zhongshi (a Thai national), and Zheng Jing. <Defendant A> provided accommodation for these prostitutes in the Shengshi Jiayuan residential area he rented. <Defendant A> frequented bars and KTVs to solicit clients, used the Sugram app to notify the prostitutes to meet clients, and arranged for <Defendant B> to drive and <Defendant C> to escort the prostitutes to the transaction locations (<Defendant B> and <Defendant C> had repeatedly transported Zhao Mou, Ma Mou, Mi Mou, Zhang Mou, and Wu Mou). After the transactions, <Defendant A> took a commission from the prostitution fees. By the time the case was uncovered, <Defendant A> had made a total profit of 77,376 yuan.


After the trial, it was found that:

1. Facts of illegal detention crime

On June 14, 2017, Xu Mou1, through an introduction, borrowed 40,000 RMB from the defendant <Defendant A>, with his friend Wu Mou acting as a guarantor and using Antarctic Shark brand fuel cleaner as collateral. After deducting the "initial interest" and "home visit fee," the defendant <Defendant A> actually gave Xu Mou1 34,300 RMB. After repaying part of the loan, Xu Mou1 was unable to continue repaying.

At around 3 PM on September 14, 2017, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> summoned Xu Mou1 and Wu Mou to <Defendant A>'s office located at No. 283-8 Qingdao North Road, Weihai City, and demanded a repayment of 80,000 RMB. When the two could not repay the amount, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> drove Xu Mou1 and Wu Mou around to raise funds but were unsuccessful. That evening, they confined the unable-to-repay Xu Mou1 and Wu Mou in rooms 1511 and 1512 of the Jujia United Hotel in the Weihai Torch High-Tech Industrial Development Zone until the next morning.

At around 8 AM the next day, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> continued to follow Xu Mou1 and Wu Mou to raise funds. During this period, the two defendants took a Shoushan stone from Wu Mou's office and demanded that Xu Mou1 sign another IOU for 54,200 RMB. Under the arrangement of <Defendant A>, <Defendant B> led Xu Mou1 to the bank to transfer and withdraw funds. After Xu Mou1 raised 25,000 RMB and returned it to <Defendant A>, <Defendant B> continued to follow Xu Mou1 to raise funds until Xu Mou1 called the police in the early morning of September 16.


After the trial, it was found that the victim, Li Mou, was engaged in online loan brokerage. On June 15, 2017, the defendant, <Defendant A>, got to know the victim, Li Mou, after processing a loan through him. Later, due to an inability to repay the loan, <Defendant A> claimed that Li Mou owed him money and conspired with <Defendant B> and others to confront Li Mou about the matter. At around 9 PM on January 23, 2018, <Defendant A> and others took Li Mou from an internet café at Longhu Times Street in the High-tech West District to Juxingyuan Teahouse in Xipu Town, Pidu District, and then to a certain Che. They used methods such as beating, insulting, and threatening with a knife to force Li Mou to hand over money. During this period, <Defendant B> participated in controlling Li Mou. Li Mou was coerced into transferring a total of 55,999 RMB to <Defendant A> via Alipay and WeChat in six installments before he could escape. According to the Sichuan Dingcheng Judicial Appraisal Center, Li Mou sustained scalp contusions and facial soft tissue contusions, classified as minor injuries. At around 12 PM on May 30, 2018, after a phone contact, <Defendant A> informed the police that he was at Tiankang Hospital in Xipu Town and remained there until the police arrived. During interrogation, <Defendant A> truthfully confessed to his criminal activities. At around 7 PM on May 31, 2018, <Defendant B> voluntarily surrendered to the Heping Street Police Station of the Pidu District Branch of the Chengdu Public Security Bureau and truthfully confessed to his criminal activities.


Upon investigation, it was found that since March 2017, the defendant <Defendant A>, together with Weng Meizhong (already sentenced), opened a foot massage shop at 696 Keyuan Road, Xiaxi Village, Economic Development Zone, Yongkang City. They recruited Lei Mou1 and Lei Mou2 to provide services such as "hand jobs," "leg pushes," and "massages" in the shop. During this period, <Defendant A> and Weng Meizhong recruited the defendant <Defendant B> to be responsible for cooking, cleaning, bookkeeping, and other tasks in the foot massage shop. It was found that Lei Mou1 and Lei Mou2 also provided sexual services to customers while providing their services. <Defendant A>, Weng Meizhong, and <Defendant B> allowed this to continue, still allowing Lei Mou1 and Lei Mou2 to provide disguised sexual services at the shop until it was raided on January 21, 2019. During this period, the defendant <Defendant A> illegally profited 12,000 RMB, and the defendant <Defendant B> illegally profited 5,000 RMB. During the trial of this case, the defendant <Defendant B> voluntarily returned the illegal gains of 5,000 RMB.


Upon trial, it was found that the defendants, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>, are sisters. On October 4, 2018, at around 10 PM, the defendants, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>, along with their mother, returned to the home of <Defendant A> located at Unit 401, Building 5, Unit 4, Fuxing Jiayuan Community, Yaojiafang Town, Zhangjiakou Economic Development Zone. They discovered the victim, Chang Mou1, engaging in an improper relationship with <Defendant A>'s husband, Zhang Mou1. <Defendant A> assaulted the victim, Chang Mou1. Subsequently, <Defendant A> and her sister, <Defendant B>, restricted the victim, Chang Mou1, from leaving and demanded a sum of 50,000 RMB. Later, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> seized the victim, Chang Mou1's car, allowing the victim, Chang Mou1, to go out to raise money.


Upon trial, it was found that in 2018, XXNCHONG and XXJULIUS (both dealt with in separate cases) and others impersonated American officers and engaged in online chats with the victim, Fu Moumou, gaining trust under the guise of romance and marriage. They then falsely claimed that they would send a package containing millions of US dollars to Fu Moumou for safekeeping. Using excuses such as package postage, taxes, and customs fees, they deceived Fu Moumou into transferring over 100,000 RMB to bank cards controlled by the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and others at various banks in Qingpu District, Shanghai. Additionally, several other victims, including Zhou Mou and Li Mou, were defrauded in a similar manner, transferring hundreds of thousands of RMB to the aforementioned bank cards.

During this period, <Defendant A> was recruited by Li Moumou (dealt with in a separate case) and subsequently recruited <Defendant B>; <Defendant C> was recruited by Song Moumou (dealt with in a separate case). Despite knowing the funds were illicit, they accepted benefits and went to multiple bank branches in Yibin City, Sichuan Province, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, and other locations to obtain multiple bank cards. They withdrew, transferred, and relocated the defrauded funds deposited by the victims, and then canceled the aforementioned bank cards. Specifically, <Defendant A> transferred 97,000 RMB, <Defendant B> transferred over 190,000 RMB, and <Defendant C> transferred over 70,000 RMB. After being apprehended, <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> all truthfully confessed to the facts of the case.


Upon examination, the court has ascertained the following facts:

1. Theft Section
On April 24 and 27, 2019, the defendant <Defendant A>, in collusion with Yang and Luo Molin (both handled in separate cases), stole a green-black Jin Jie brand two-wheeled motorcycle belonging to the victim Chen Mou Bing and a red Xin Hao brand two-wheeled motorcycle belonging to the victim Huang Mou in Chuanshan District, Suining City. According to the appraisal, the stolen vehicles were valued at 1800 yuan and 2800 yuan respectively.

2. Robbery Section
1. At around 9 PM on May 6, 2019, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>, in collusion with Tang Mou (handled in a separate case), robbed a minor named Tang of an Apple 6 phone outside X school by means of verbal threats.
2. At approximately 2 AM on May 7, 2019, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>, in collusion with Tang Mou, robbed Cai Mou of a black OPPO phone in Chuanshan District, Suining City, by means of knife threats.

3. Harboring Others to Use Drugs Section
On the afternoon of May 12, 2019, the defendant <Defendant B> harbored <Defendant A>, Mei Mosheng, and Tang Mou (a minor) to use methamphetamine in the rented house of <Defendant B> in Chuanshan District, Suining City.


After the trial, it was found that during the period from July 2018 to May 15, 2019, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> operated the Jiahau Bathhouse in Minghuang, Hutang Town, Wujin District, Changzhou City. For the purpose of making a profit, they harbored Han and Liu to provide prostitution services to others at the prices of 280 yuan and 330 yuan, respectively.


Upon trial, it was found that between November 2017 and February 2018, the defendant <Defendant A> rented a Liugong ZLSOC loader from Bai, a Liugong excavator from Duan, and a SANY excavator from You, under the pretext of needing machinery for construction projects. <Defendant A> concealed the fact that these three machines were rented and, posing as the owner, successively mortgaged them to a fellow villager <Defendant B> for a loan of over 300,000 RMB to repay debts. Subsequently, due to <Defendant A>'s inability to repay the loan, on June 23, 2018, <Defendant A> signed a sales agreement with <Defendant B>, selling the three machines to <Defendant B> for 320,000 RMB. In August 2018, You, Duan, and others approached <Defendant B> and clearly informed him that the excavators and other machinery were rented by <Defendant A> from them and were not owned by <Defendant A>. In September 2019, <Defendant B> sold the Liugong excavator and the SANY excavator for 365,000 RMB. After the incident, <Defendant B> voluntarily surrendered to the authorities and repurchased the sold excavators to return them to the victims. According to the Jiaocheng County Price Certification Center, the SANY excavator is valued at 624,000 RMB, the Liugong excavator at 216,000 RMB, and the Liugong ZL50C loader at 60,000 RMB.


Upon examination, it was found that on June 16, 2014, the victim, Tang Mou1, signed a loan contract for 200,000 yuan with Gongcheng Agriculture and Commerce Microfinance Co., Ltd. The loan period was from June 16, 2014, to June 15, 2015, with a monthly interest rate of 2.0%. Due to his inability to repay the loan on time, one afternoon in the second half of 2015, the defendants, <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C>, along with Zhong Mou2 (deceased), under the pretext of helping Zhong Mou1 and Gongcheng Agriculture and Commerce Microfinance Co., Ltd. to collect the debt, forcibly took the victim, Tang Mou1, from the Ping'an Jade Carving Shop in Binjiang Garden, Gongcheng Town, and placed him in a pickup truck. They then drove to the vicinity of the speed monitoring point on the road in Huangling Village, Ping'an Township, where they beat the victim, Tang Mou1, with fists and feet. Subsequently, they took the victim, Tang Mou1, to the side of the cement village road near Yongtang Village, Ping'an Township, and beat him again, demanding that he call someone to borrow money for repayment. It was not until around 6 PM that day that they released the victim, Tang Mou1, and returned him to Gongcheng. On April 25, 2019, the defendant, <Defendant A>, was detained and brought to justice by the Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County Public Security Bureau; on April 26, 2019, the defendant, <Defendant B>, was detained and brought to justice by the Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County Public Security Bureau; on April 28, 2019, the defendant, <Defendant C>, was detained and brought to justice by the Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County Public Security Bureau.


Upon trial, it was found that the defendant <Defendant A> had long-term possession of a bird gun stored at his residence in Group 1, *** Village, Lingling District, Yongzhou City, for hunting purposes. Since 2016, the defendant <Defendant B> frequently borrowed <Defendant A>'s bird gun for hunting, and both <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> took turns possessing the bird gun. On January 2, 2017, police officers from the Fujiaqiao Police Station of the Lingling Branch of the Yongzhou Public Security Bureau seized a bird gun at the residence of <Defendant B> in *** Village, Lingling District. Upon identification, the bird gun was confirmed to be a firearm powered by gunpowder. The defendant <Defendant B> was apprehended on January 2, 2017, and the defendant <Defendant A> was brought to justice upon summons on January 19, 2017. Both defendants truthfully confessed to the main criminal facts after being brought to justice, and they voluntarily pleaded guilty and signed a plea agreement.


Upon trial, it was found that from October to November 2018, defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and others were employed to assist in the operation of a prostitution venue located at Shop No. 105, Building 3, Fuxing City, North Side of Huangjin Avenue, Xiantao City. At this venue, <Defendant A> was responsible for cashiering and bookkeeping, <Defendant B> was responsible for organizing and introducing prostitutes to clients for prostitution activities, and <Defendant C> was responsible for cashiering, bookkeeping, and managing the operational cash income. The organizer of the venue, Peng (at large), was responsible for daily personnel management, while Zhou Xuan (at large) was in charge of the overall finances of the store. Zhou Xuan collected the daily revenue from <Defendant C>. On the evening of November 16, 2018, at around 11 PM, <Defendant B> received and introduced clients Guang and Zhao to the venue for prostitution activities. Guang and Zhao each selected two prostitutes, Shi and Luo (1), from the eight available at the venue. After <Defendant B> negotiated the price and services with Guang and Zhao, <Defendant B> led Shi, Guang, Luo (1), and Zhao to their respective rooms to engage in prostitution, at which point they were caught red-handed by the police officers.


Upon trial, it was found that starting in June 2018, defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> used an unnamed hair salon at No. 1, Alley 4, North Area of Hongbu Garden, Pinnan Village, Sanxiang Town, Zhongshan City, and a rented room on the second floor of No. 2 as a prostitution den. They gathered several prostitutes including Ou Mou1, Long Mou1, Luo Mou1, and Deng Mou1, formulated rules for the charges and profit-sharing of prostitution activities, managed, and controlled the aforementioned prostitutes to carry out prostitution activities, and profited by taking a cut from the earnings. On July 26 of the same year, defendant <Defendant A> hired defendant <Defendant C> to be responsible for cashiering and soliciting clients. At around 5 a.m. on July 29, the police arrested defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> at the aforementioned location in Pinnan Village, Sanxiang Town, and confiscated illegal earnings of 3,000 RMB, four sets of keys from the drawer at the reception on the first floor of the rented room, and one mobile phone from each of the three defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C>.


After the trial, it was found that: On November 18, 2017, the defendant <Defendant A> signed an "External Scaffolding Project Contract" with the victim unit Sichuan Wan Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Wan Company), contracting the external scaffolding project of the Longshi Village Longtang Poly Linhai construction site in Wuguishan District, Zhongshan City, in the form of labor contracting without material. The project payment was to be settled based on the actual settlement volume. From May 2 to 9, 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> gathered the defendant <Defendant C> to cause a disturbance at the above construction site, threatening Wan Company and China Construction Third Engineering Bureau First Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as China Construction Third Bureau) to settle wages. After having received RMB 668,388 from the victim unit Wan Company's person in charge, Dang, and confirming with Wan Company that the receivable project payment was RMB 824,265.60, they still forged payrolls and demanded that the person in charge of China Construction Third Bureau, Dong, and the person in charge of Wan Company, Dang, pay RMB 1,487,048.04 (i.e., an overpayment of RMB 836,500.04). Among them, <Defendant C> provided forged payrolls to <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>, demanding that the above victim unit pay RMB 84,672. On the evening of May 9, at around 9 PM, the defendants <Defendant B>, <Defendant A>, and <Defendant C> were arrested by the police at the above construction site.


After trial, it was found that between August 2019 and July 1, 2020, the defendant <Defendant A>, with the intent of making a profit, colluded with defendants <Defendant B> and <Defendant C> to recruit prostitutes Li, Wang, Hu, Hu (another individual), and Zhang. They rented multiple apartments in Gao Li International Apartments, Mahang, Hutang Town, Wujin District, Changzhou City, and provided these apartments free of charge to the aforementioned prostitutes for use as prostitution venues. They established the content of prostitution services, pricing standards, and income distribution ratios. The price for prostitution services was set at 468 RMB (hereinafter referred to as RMB) per session, with the prostitute receiving 270 RMB, <Defendant A> receiving 188 RMB, and <Defendant B> receiving 10 RMB. <Defendant A> was the boss; <Defendant B> was the on-site manager responsible for renting apartments, soliciting clients, receiving clients, arranging for prostitutes to provide services, and keeping records; <Defendant C> was responsible for supervising records and cleaning according to <Defendant A>'s instructions. From August 2019 to July 1, 2020, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> illegally profited a total of over 390,000 RMB, and <Defendant C> illegally profited over 44,000 RMB.


Upon trial, it was found that on March 21, 2019, the defendant <Defendant A> hired the defendant <Defendant B> for 8,000 yuan to drive a large truck with the license plate Gan C××××× to transport tobacco leaves to Bobai County, Guangxi, without a tobacco transportation permit. At around 10 PM on March 21, <Defendant B> drove the large truck with the license plate Gan C××××× to Banqiao Town, Luoping County, Yunnan Province to load the goods until the early hours of the next day. Afterward, <Defendant A> drove a minivan with the license plate Yun D××××× to lead the way, while <Defendant B> followed behind in the large truck with the license plate Gan C×××××. They intended to travel through Pengzha Town, Xingyi City, and Wan Fenghu Town, Anlong County, towards Bobai County, Guangxi. At around 5 AM on March 22, <Defendant B> was intercepted by the law enforcement officers of the Anlong County Tobacco Monopoly Bureau while driving the large truck with the license plate Gan C××××× through Wan Fenghu Town, Anlong County. Upon weighing, the large truck with the license plate Gan C××××× was found to be carrying 16,880 kilograms of tobacco leaves. According to the Anlong County Price Certification Center, the value of the seized tobacco leaves was determined to be 849,199.04 yuan.


After the trial, it was found that in early September 2019, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>, while serving as Asset Management Supervisor and Asset Management Specialist respectively at Wuhan Today Dream Commerce Co., Ltd., colluded with Jiang, a market exclusive salesperson for Meiyijia Convenience Store. They falsely claimed that they could help the victim Ruan obtain a tobacco retail license. Without authorization, they used the name of Wuhan Today Dream Commerce Co., Ltd. to transfer the commercial storefront located at No. 35, Building 10, Phase III, Rongqiao Jinjiang, No. 2 Jianyi Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, to the victim Ruan, and collected a "storefront transfer fee" totaling RMB 110,000. The illicit money was divided among them. On October 31, 2019, an employee of Wuhan Today Dream Commerce Co., Ltd. reported the case to the public security authorities and escorted the defendant <Defendant A> to the public security authorities. On November 1, 2019, the defendant <Defendant B> was summoned by phone to the public security authorities for investigation. After the incident, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> returned all the illicit money, which was subsequently returned to the victim Ruan. The victim Ruan forgave the two defendants for their actions. During the trial at this court, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> voluntarily paid fines of RMB 30,000 each.


Upon trial, it was found that at approximately 2:40 AM on September 8, 2019, on the third floor of the Hanting Holiday Hotel in Sixian County, the victims Zhang and Shi had a scuffle with the defendants <Defendant A> and Luo (handled in a separate case) over trivial matters. At around 5 AM on the same day, the defendants <Defendant B>, Xing (handled in a separate case), Sun (handled in a separate case), and Qiu (handled in a separate case) were summoned by <Defendant A> and arrived at <Defendant A>'s residence in Sixian County from Siyang County, Jiangsu Province. Later, <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and the other four individuals carried kitchen knives and folding knives to Room 406, Building 25, Oriental Pearl Community, where the victims Zhang and Shi resided. <Defendant A> wielded a kitchen knife, and <Defendant B> wielded a folding knife, inflicting multiple injuries on the victims Shi and Zhang. <Defendant B> also stabbed Shi in the abdomen. Xing, Sun, Luo, and others assaulted the victims. According to the forensic assessment, the abdominal injury of the victim Shi was of a serious nature (second degree), and the external wounds were of a minor nature (first degree); Zhang's injuries were classified as minor (second degree). <Defendant A> was apprehended by the police in Siyang County, Jiangsu Province, on September 30, 2019; <Defendant B> was apprehended by the police in Siyang County on October 17, 2019.


Upon trial, it was found that at around 23:00 on March 21, 2017, the defendant <Defendant A>, along with Wei, Chen, Zhao, and others (all handled in separate cases), went to Beida Resources Dream City to distribute solicitation cards. They carried knives and patrolled illegally, attempting to combat other gangs involved in illegal prostitution transactions. Subsequently, they detained members of Li Lang's prostitution gang, including Yang, Zeng, and four men and one woman, under the Seven Days Hotel. After assaulting the four men, they took the five individuals to the vicinity of the Shangmai Toll Station in Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City, and continued to assault them. They demanded ransom from Li Lang but failed, then warned the other party not to engage in illegal prostitution transactions in the Beida Resources Dream City area in the future before releasing the five individuals.

Starting from July 2018, the defendant <Defendant A> and Xu (handled in a separate case) began printing solicitation cards and rented houses to employ the defendant <Defendant B>, Huang (handled in a separate case), and others. They distributed solicitation cards in several hotels in Yunyan District, Guiyang City, including "Yunke Theme Hotel" on Feishan Street and "Diverse Flower Language Hotel" at Xiaoshizi, to facilitate prostitution services between clients and prostitutes. Since October 2018, the defendant <Defendant A> and Xu arranged for an underage prostitute, Zhou (handled in a separate case), to stay in their rented house and repeatedly arranged for the defendant <Defendant B> and Huang to send Zhou to hotels to provide prostitution services.

At around 1:00 on October 18, 2018, police officers discovered Zhou, arranged by the defendant <Defendant A> and Xu, providing prostitution services to a client, Li, for RMB 400 in room 9817 of the "Diverse Flower Language Hotel" at Xiaoshizi, Yunyan District, Guiyang City.


Upon investigation, it was found that since May 2018, the defendant <Defendant A> organized prostitution activities involving multiple prostitutes at the "Lidu Massage Parlor" located at Store No. 1, Building No. 9, Century Garden, Qingyang Street, Jinjiang City. <Defendant A> also employed the defendant <Defendant B> to manage the site, recruit prostitutes, handle cashier duties, and keep accounts. At around 23:00 on the 29th of the same month, the police apprehended the aforementioned prostitution venue and caught several individuals on the spot, including prostitutes Yu (tested positive for syphilis), Lin, Yang, Chen1, and Chen2, as well as a client Chen3 (all of whom have been administratively punished). <Defendant B> was arrested, and one account book and six condoms were seized. On June 20th of the same year, <Defendant A> turned themselves in to the Jinjiang City Public Security Bureau. During the trial, the families of <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> prepaid fines amounting to RMB 15,000 and RMB 3,000, respectively.


After trial, it was found that: In July 2019, the defendant <Defendant A> learned that others needed to use WeChat payment codes to receive illicit funds from criminal activities. Subsequently, <Defendant A> colluded with <Defendant B> and Xu Jian (handled in a separate case) to have <Defendant B> and Xu Jian provide their respective WeChat payment codes to receive the illicit funds and profit from it. Between July 28 and August 16, 2019, <Defendant A> took <Defendant B> and Xu Jian to rooms 612 and 906 at the Jinqiao Hotel in Licheng District on three occasions. During these visits, <Defendant B> and Xu Jian used their respective WeChat payment codes to receive a total of 43,823.1 RMB that had been fraudulently obtained from the victims. Specifically, <Defendant B> used his WeChat payment code to receive 21,764.1 RMB from victims Li, Yang (1), Chen, Su, Kang, and others, while Xu Jian used his WeChat payment code to receive 22,059 RMB from victims Zhai, Yang (2), and others. On August 27, 2019, the public security authorities arrested <Defendant B> in Licheng District, Quanzhou, and seized a Huawei mobile phone used in the crime from him. On August 28 of the same month, the public security authorities arrested <Defendant A> in Licheng District, Quanzhou, and seized an Apple mobile phone used in the crime from him.


Upon trial, it was found that the defendant <Defendant A> and the defendant <Defendant B> are father and son. On the evening of August 26, 2017, Li Jia-cai (already sentenced) had a dispute with the two defendants over trivial matters in Xikong Village, Ganting Town, this county, after drinking. <Defendant B> assaulted Li Jia-cai. That night, Li Jia-cai returned to his home in Beima Village, Qiaoli Town, Yaodu District, and took a hunting rifle left by his deceased father. At around 2 a.m. the next day, he went to the gate of <Defendant A>'s house, kicked the gate a few times, and then ran away. <Defendant A> came out to chase him. While fleeing with the gun, Li Jia-cai fell to the ground, causing the gun to discharge accidentally without causing any personal injury. Li Jia-cai abandoned the gun and fled. <Defendant A> picked up the gun and handed it to <Defendant B> for concealment. At around 10 p.m. on September 29, 2017, <Defendant B> reported the gun incident to the police by phone. The police immediately went to the defendant's home, and <Defendant B> handed over the gun, which was placed under the bed in the bedroom, to the police officers. According to the Linfen Public Security Judicial Appraisal Center, the gun was identified as a standard single-barrel hunting rifle.


Upon investigation, it was found that Yao Mou (handled in a separate case) intended to open a massage parlor to engage in organizing prostitution activities. However, as Yao Mou was a person with a credit record issue, he approached the defendant <Defendant B> to assist with business registration under <Defendant B>'s name. After <Defendant B> registered the business as the operator, Xinhua Yimei Health Massage Parlor in Zhuanghe City (hereinafter referred to as Yimei Health Massage Parlor) was officially established on June 26, 2017. Following its establishment, Yao Mou recruited female technicians Liu Mou, Guo Mou, and Zhang Mou2 to provide sexual services and rented premises in Zhuanghe City as venues for prostitution. To facilitate the transportation of prostitutes, in January 2018, Yao Mou purchased a second-hand car under <Defendant B>'s name for this purpose. During the operation of Yimei Health Massage Parlor, Yao Mou employed the defendant <Defendant A>, Zhao Mou (handled in a separate case), and Wang Mou2 (handled in a separate case) to work at the massage parlor. Among them, the defendant <Defendant A> was responsible for managing, directing, and dispatching personnel at the massage parlor to engage in prostitution activities. The defendant <Defendant A> also contacted clients through social media platforms such as WeChat and earned commissions from Yao Mou by introducing clients to the prostitutes. The commission rates were 30 yuan for a 200-yuan sexual service, 40 yuan for a 300-yuan sexual service, and 100 yuan for an 800-yuan sexual service.


Upon trial, the following facts were ascertained:

1. Harboring Prostitution: In August 2018, <Defendant A> and others rented a house in Shaozhuang Village, Dacheng County, to provide massage services. During this period, <Defendant A> knowingly allowed eight women, including Wang Moumou, Liu Mou1mou, and Zhao Mou1, to engage in prostitution in the rented house. The income from prostitution was divided in a 30-70 split (<Defendant A> received 30%, and the prostitutes received 70%). <Defendant B> came to work there at the end of September under the employment of <Defendant A>, responsible for arranging the prostitutes and collecting the fees. On October 22, the prostitution site was raided by the police. From the end of September 2018 until the police raid, the total income from prostitution was 86,000 yuan, of which <Defendant A> received 25,800 yuan. After being apprehended, <Defendant B> truthfully confessed to the above facts.


Upon trial, it was found that at around 23:00 on November 14, 2010, Deng Mou (already convicted) fatally injured Zhou Shilian with a knife on the middle section of East Gate Pedestrian Street in Zhaoyang District. Subsequently, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> contacted Deng Mou and took him to their home. After a discussion, <Defendant A> drove Deng Mou to Kunming in their family's Changan "Benben" car to hide him. During the journey, <Defendant A> provided Deng Mou with 200 RMB in cash. On August 15, 2018, <Defendant A> received a call from the Zhaoyang District Public Security Bureau and voluntarily went to the Taiping Police Station to accept processing; <Defendant B> was apprehended by the police the following day. The aforementioned key facts are undisputed by <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>. Additionally, these facts are corroborated by the household registration certificates and photographs of the two defendants, the circumstances of their apprehension, the confessions of <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> to the public security authorities, the records of <Defendant A> identifying Deng Mou and <Defendant B> in photographs, the records of <Defendant B> identifying Deng Mou and <Defendant A> in photographs, the testimonies of Deng Mou and Lu Mingjing, and the records of their identification of the two defendants in photographs, as well as the testimony of Tang Mou and the records of his identification of <Defendant A> and Lu Mingjing in photographs. These pieces of evidence are sufficient to establish the facts.


Upon trial, it was found that from November to the end of December 2017, the defendant <Defendant A> established the Hanlin Bathhouse at Room 5, Building 87, Samsung Road, Huaqiao Town, Kunshan City, with the defendant <Defendant B> being responsible for the daily operation and management. The two defendants organized prostitutes to engage in prostitution activities within the bathhouse and assigned the defendant <Defendant C> to be responsible for timekeeping, bookkeeping, and cashiering, and the defendant <Defendant D> to monitor surveillance, provide lookout, and switch signs. On December 27, 2017, the Kunshan City Public Security Bureau conducted an inspection of the Hanlin Bathhouse and apprehended eight prostitutes, including Li Mou1, Hu Mou, and Xia Mou, on the spot. At the counter, they seized three daily reports from the Hanlin Bathhouse front desk, four consumption slips, one QR code payment slip, one white mobile phone used for receiving payments, one alarm device, one "Prostitute Work Meeting" handbook, and business funds amounting to RMB 5,300.


Upon trial, it was found that starting from May 2018, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> jointly invested in and operated the Ai Massage Parlor at No. 20, Qian Road, Dalu Xiangbei Village, Boyong Community, Humen Town, Dongguan City. They organized several women, including Wu X1, Li X1, Huang X, and Chen X1, who had fallen into prostitution, to provide services such as oral sex to customers within the massage parlor. At approximately 1:00 AM on July 12, 2018, the police apprehended <Defendant A> along with Wu X1, Li X1, Huang X, and Chen X1 at the Ai Massage Parlor. At approximately 12:00 PM on July 13, 2018, the police notified <Defendant B> to go to the police station under the pretext of retrieving a public security inspection registration book, and subsequently conducted an investigation on <Defendant B>. At approximately 11:00 PM on July 21 of the same year, the police arrested <Defendant C> in Room 209 of the Baikecai Hotel on Wangcheng Avenue, Chengjiao Street, Conghua District, Guangzhou City.


Upon trial, it was found that in June 2018, defendants <Defendant B> and <Defendant A>, without actually securing the contract for the earthwork project of the Longzhimeng project in Changxing County of this city, fabricated the fact that they had secured the contract to the victim Li Mou1. This led the victim Li Mou1 to mistakenly believe that he could collaborate with the two defendants to develop the earthwork project of the Longzhimeng project in Changxing County. On July 10 of the same year, <Defendant A>, delegated by <Defendant B>, signed a "Partnership Agreement" with the victim Li Mou1, thereby defrauding him of RMB 700,000. Among this amount, <Defendant A> received RMB 210,000, which was used to repay personal debts and for personal expenses; <Defendant B> received RMB 490,000, which was lent to others. Subsequently, the victim Li Mou1 realized he had been deceived and repeatedly demanded the return of his money from the two defendants. The two defendants returned RMB 400,000 to the victim Li Mou1, but after multiple unsuccessful attempts to recover the remaining RMB 300,000, the victim Li Mou1 reported the case to the public security authorities on February 19, 2019. After the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were brought to justice, they returned the remaining RMB 300,000 to the public security authorities on April 1, 2019.


Upon trial, it was found that on the early morning of August 31, ×××, the defendant <Defendant A> in his rented residence in Xuzhou District, Yibin City, due to a dispute over prostitution fees between the prostitute Xie Moumei and the victim Yan Mou, assaulted Yan Mou. <Defendant A> used a hammer to strike the victim's head, shoulder, and back. Later, <Defendant B> called Li Mou to come and help. After arriving at the scene with a steel pipe, Li Mou hit Yan Mou's back and kicked Yan Mou's foot and chin. After Yan Mou left, he was hospitalized and reported the incident on September 2, ×××. On September 4, ×××, <Defendant A> was arrested. On December 9, ×××, according to the appraisal by the Forensic Identification Office of the Xuzhou District Branch of the Yibin City Public Security Bureau, the victim Yan Mou's left parietal bone fracture was classified as a minor injury of the second degree; the left scapula fracture was also classified as a minor injury of the second degree.


Upon trial, it was found that from January to February 2019, the victim Liu, who resided in Xiangyuan Community, Qibin District, Hebi City, successively transferred a total of 183,500 yuan of defrauded funds to the bank account of the defendant <Defendant B> in four transactions. Despite knowing that the money transferred to their bank accounts was illicit funds, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> still assisted a Nigerian person claiming to be "MATTHEW" in transferring and withdrawing the money in order to earn a commission. <Defendant B> deducted a 1% commission fee of 1,835 yuan from the aforementioned funds and then transferred the remaining amount to <Defendant A>. <Defendant A> deducted a 2% commission fee of 3,670 yuan before giving the remaining amount to "MATTHEW." On March 18, 2019, <Defendant A> voluntarily surrendered to the public security authorities. After the incident, <Defendant A> voluntarily returned the entire illegal income of 3,670 yuan to this court, and <Defendant B> voluntarily returned the entire illegal income of 1,835 yuan to this court.


Upon trial, it was found that from the end of May to early June 2017, during the investigation of Zhang Mou1 and others for operating a casino by the Ulanhot City Public Security Bureau, the defendant <Defendant A>, knowing that Zhang Mou1 was a target of arrest by the public security authorities, purchased a mobile phone and a non-registered SIM card for Zhang Mou1 to use in order to evade capture by the investigation authorities. <Defendant A> also contacted the defendant <Defendant B> to pick up Zhang Mou1 and Qu Mou1 from Ulanhot City in early June 2019. The defendant <Defendant B>, knowing that Zhang Mou1 was a target of arrest by the public security authorities, first used his own identity information to book a room at the Jin Wutong Hotel in Baicheng City for Zhang Mou1 to stay in, and later arranged for Zhang Mou1 to temporarily stay at his friend's residence in ** Garden, Baicheng City, Jilin Province, to help him evade capture.


Upon trial, it was found that due to dissatisfaction with the victim Wu Mou, the defendant <Defendant A>, out of personal spite, colluded with defendants <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and Chen Yongjian (at large) to illegally break into the victim Wu Mou's home at the northern section of Oasis Road, Minquan County, at around 10 PM on June 2, 2017. They forcibly dragged the victim Wu Mou into a car and took him to a road outside Weizhuang Village, Huayuan Township, Minquan County. The three defendants first beat and insulted the victim, and then defendant <Defendant A> cut off Wu Mou's hair. Subsequently, the three defendants drove away, leaving the victim Wu Mou at the scene. On December 3, 2017, defendant <Defendant A> voluntarily surrendered to the Oasis Police Station of the Public Security Bureau of Minquan County. The victim Wu Mou expressed understanding towards defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C>.


Upon investigation, it was found that on January 10, 2019, the defendant <Defendant A> used forged delivery notes to instruct Luan (identity unknown) to contact truck driver Han to go to a certain dock in the Hailing District of Taizhou City. They fraudulently obtained 7.964 tons of HRB400, 16E rebar, 7.92 tons of HRB400, 18E rebar, 5.955 tons of HRB400, 22E rebar, and 3.95 tons of HRB400, 25E rebar from Taizhou Company (Taizhou Certain Company) stored at that location (with a total value of RMB 97,254). Later, the defendant <Defendant A> contacted the defendant <Defendant B> by phone to discuss the sale of the rebar. At noon on January 11, 2019, the defendant <Defendant B>, knowing that the rebar being sold by the defendant <Defendant A> was criminal proceeds, purchased it for RMB 78,980 at his shop located at a certain street in Xinjie Town, Taixing City. After the incident, the defendant <Defendant A> returned RMB 95,000 to the Hailing Branch of the Taizhou Public Security Bureau (the amount has been returned to the involved company by the public security agency), and the defendant <Defendant B> returned RMB 6,250 to the Hailing Branch of the Taizhou Public Security Bureau, totaling RMB 101,250. During the trial, the defendant <Defendant B> returned an additional RMB 2,750 of illegal gains (the amount is currently held in the court's case fund account).


Upon trial, it was found that on the evening of February 13, 2017, Xu (already sentenced) learned about the group fight involving Zhou (already sentenced) and others, and contacted <Defendant A> by phone to have Wang check the situation. <Defendant A> then drove with <Defendant B> to the location and agreed that <Defendant B> would transport Zhou Xiaokui, Lu Wei, Chen, Fang, Li, Xu (all already sentenced), and others to hide in the building on the east side of the south gate of the former Deli Cable Factory in Dongyuan Town, Qidong City. <Defendant A> also provided Zhou with some funds for evasion. Several days later, <Defendant A> and Xu transported the aforementioned individuals to the Haimen City Bus Station to aid Zhou and others in escaping, with Xu providing 1,000 RMB for their evasion. <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> surrendered to the police officers of Qidong Public Security Bureau on May 14, 2018, and December 28, 2017, respectively, and truthfully confessed the main criminal facts after being brought to justice.


Upon investigation, it was found that in October 2018, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> rented and allowed Luo Mou and Meng Mou to engage in prostitution at No. 52, Yiduotou Residence, Lingyuan Road, Chengxiang Town, Wuming District, Nanning City. At around 9 PM on October 23, the public security authorities apprehended Luo Mou, Meng Mou, Lu Mou, and Yu Mou, who were engaging in prostitution at the aforementioned location.


Upon trial, it was found that: since April 2016, the defendant <Defendant A>, without obtaining a tobacco monopoly license, had been selling counterfeit cigarettes in the urban area of Pingxiang City and Shangli County. <Defendant A> purchased goods worth a total of over 870,000 yuan from sources with WeChat nicknames such as "Wholesale Cigarettes" and "Striving Buddy," and then sold them to the defendant <Defendant B> and others including Tan. <Defendant A> acknowledged that the amount of counterfeit cigarettes involved was approximately 200,000 yuan. On June 29, 2018, <Defendant A> was caught red-handed and had the relevant cigarettes confiscated while retrieving counterfeit cigarettes sent by his supplier at the Nanchang Tiansheng Freight Department's Shangli operation point. On the same day, the Public Security Bureau of Shangli County seized a large quantity of cigarettes from his residence at No. 3, Building 7, Unit 1, Room 701, Zhanqian West Road, Houbu Street, Anyuan District, Pingxiang City. According to the appraisal, all the aforementioned cigarettes were counterfeit registered and inferior products, with a total appraised price of 33,419.02 yuan. Since January 2017, the defendant <Defendant B> had been purchasing counterfeit cigarettes from <Defendant A> and selling them at his "Jiajiale" grocery store near the train station on Zhanqian West Road, Houbu Street, Anyuan District, Pingxiang City, to customers including Ye and Liu. The total amount spent on counterfeit cigarettes was over 120,000 yuan, all of which had been sold.


Upon trial, it was found that since 2016, multiple criminal syndicates led by <Defendant A>, Deng, Xiang, Bai, and others, had been operating in the university districts of Chenggong District, Anning City, and Songming County in Kunming City. These groups used private lending as a pretext to lure college students into signing promissory notes and contracts with inflated amounts and fabricated false transaction records. They deducted amounts from the loans under various pretexts such as consultation fees, processing fees, referral fees, deposits, guarantees, and current interest. Upon the due date, they employed methods such as "negotiation," tailing, bombarding with text messages and phone calls, spreading defamatory information, home visits for harassment, assault, intimidation, extortion, and illegal detention. These methods either forced the victimized students and their families to repay according to the inflated amounts or led them to other criminal groups to "borrow new to repay old," continuously escalating the debt. This resulted in many students suspending, dropping out, or withdrawing from school.

Among these, the criminal group led by <Defendant A> included <Defendant A> as the leader, with <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, Zhao (separately handled), and Meng (separately handled) as members. The various criminal groups colluded with each other to seek illegal profits by making borrowers follow their pre-set "traps" for lending, maliciously and arbitrarily determining defaults, inflating borrowers' debts, and using violence and soft violence to collect debts. The charges against <Defendant A> for fraud and extortion, as well as the charges against <Defendant B> and <Defendant C> for fraud, were found to be true. However, the indictment incorrectly stated that <Defendant A> extorted Liu in June 2018, which should be corrected to June 2017. Specifically, <Defendant A> committed fraud amounting to 95,324 yuan and attempted extortion of 52,000 yuan; <Defendant B> committed fraud amounting to 45,600 yuan; and <Defendant C> committed fraud amounting to 59,334 yuan.


Upon trial, it was found that at around 6 PM on the evening of October 17, 2019, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, <Defendant D>, and Ma (2) were having dinner at a certain skewer bar in Fakou Town, Fakou County. During the meal, the victims Zhu, Ma (1), and Wang (1) also came to the restaurant to eat. A verbal altercation ensued between the two parties over trivial matters, which escalated into a physical fight, resulting in injuries to Zhu, Ma (1), and Wang (1). According to the appraisal by a certain judicial appraisal center: Zhu's scalp contusion was assessed as a minor injury, his chest closed injury was assessed as a Grade 1 minor injury, and the laceration on his left palm was assessed as a minor injury. Ma (1)'s contused laceration on the left frontal-temporal region was assessed as a Grade 2 minor injury. Wang (1)'s contused laceration on the lower eyelid of the right eye was assessed as a minor injury. On November 7, 2019, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and <Defendant D> were summoned to the case by the public security organs.


After the trial, it was found that the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> introduced Guo (female, 15 years old) and Tie (female, 15 years old) to engage in prostitution with others from March to May 2019 in Changping District, Beijing. Specifically, on March 28, 2019, they introduced Guo to engage in prostitution with Gao in Room 1704, Unit 1, Building No. X, Zhuxinzhuang, for a price of RMB 530; on April 30, 2019, they introduced Guo to engage in prostitution with Wang in Room 2003, Building No. X, Changping District, Beijing, for a price of RMB 500; on May 5, 2019, they introduced Guo to engage in prostitution with Zhou in a village in Shahe Town, Changping District, Beijing, for a price of RMB 500; and on May 20, 2019, they introduced Tie to engage in prostitution with Li in a village in Shisanling Town, Changping District, Beijing, for a price of RMB 540. After the court session, the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and <Defendant C> voluntarily prepaid the illegal proceeds into the case.


Upon trial, it was found that: On March 15, 2017, the defendant <Defendant A> took over the operation of the sauna center on the third floor of Hainan Xindazheng Business Club (hereinafter referred to as Xindazheng Club) located at Jingjiang Plaza, Nanhai Avenue, Haikou City, from Yuan, the legal representative of Hainan Xindazheng Business Club Co., Ltd., and participated in profit sharing as a shareholder. <Defendant A> was responsible for the daily management of the club and hired the defendant <Defendant B> as the business manager, who was responsible for daily management and reception arrangements. Gu Aina (handled in a separate case) was hired as the financial officer, responsible for checking accounts, issuing salaries, and shareholder profit distribution. In addition to regular sauna and foot massage services, <Defendant A> and others recruited, organized, and harbored prostitutes such as Liu Yujiao, Chen 1, Huang, and Chen 2 to provide one-stop sexual services to customers for illegal profit. Xindazheng Club implemented a unified charging system, with the fee for one-stop sexual services ranging from RMB 700 to 1100. Each prostitute could collect their commission from the cashier the day after providing one-stop sexual services to a customer, with the commission calculated based on the price for each customer served. At around 3 a.m. on September 26, 2017, when the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department conducted a routine inspection of Xindazheng Club, they discovered prostitution activities on-site and arrested more than 20 individuals including <Defendant B> and Deng, confiscating illegal proceeds amounting to RMB 6536, and seizing items such as POS machines, daily business reports, receipts, consumption slips, private room reports, and walkie-talkies. On November 17, 2017, the defendant <Defendant A> surrendered to the public security authorities.


Upon trial, it was found that in the autumn of 2019, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> purchased a nail gun used for interior decoration and two boxes of gunpowder-powered nails, totaling 200 rounds, from "Lao He Hardware Store" in the Building Materials Market in Zhangbei County for 130 yuan. On November 20, 2019, and December 5, 2019, <Defendant A> purchased nail gun accessories on JD.com. Later, <Defendant A> took the inner tube of the nail gun and a shortened hydraulic tube to the home of Zhu in Kangbao County, where <Defendant B> and <Defendant A> welded the hydraulic tube to the nail gun, modifying it into a firearm. In February 2020, <Defendant A> left the firearm at <Defendant B>'s home in Kangbao County and informed <Defendant B> of this. On July 28, 2020, the case was filed for investigation, and on the same day, <Defendant B> handed over the firearm to the public security authorities. According to the appraisal, the item resembling a gun is non-standard, powered by gunpowder, and has firing capabilities, thus it is identified as a firearm.


After the trial, it was found that at around 20:30 on January 20, 2020, the defendant <Defendant A> was carrying a powder gun, and the defendant <Defendant B> was carrying a nail gun. The two went to the slope of Polong Yakou at the Datian Village Committee in Guangnan County to hunt birds. They accidentally injured a fellow villager, Wu Mou1, who was playing with his mobile phone on the mountain. After the incident, defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> promptly reported the incident and actively rescued the victim. They truthfully confessed their criminal acts after being brought to justice. According to the appraisal, Wu Mou1's injuries were classified as minor injuries of the second degree. The powder gun held by defendant <Defendant A> is a firearm that uses gunpowder to propel projectiles, and the nail gun held by defendant <Defendant B> is a self-made powder gun powered by gunpowder. Both have the capability to cause injury and are classified as firearms under the "Firearms Control Law of the People's Republic of China." The public security authorities have confiscated the firearms and nail gun bullets, as well as iron pellets, held by defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>.


Upon examination, it was found that at around 22:00 on November 17, 2019, the victim, Li, was deceived by pyramid scheme personnel and brought to a bungalow located in the Xinhua District of Cang County, Cangzhou City. The defendants, <Defendant A> and <Defendant B>, then restricted Li's personal freedom until 22:00 on December 24, 2019. During the period when Li's personal freedom was restricted, Li was beaten by <Defendant A>. In order to leave the pyramid scheme den as soon as possible, Li was forced to pay <Defendant A> RMB 31,900 to purchase the so-called products of the pyramid scheme organization. Additionally, on December 2, 2019, during the period when Li's personal freedom was restricted, <Defendant A> used Li's mobile phone to take out a loan of RMB 9,000 on the "eZhaodai" platform and transferred it to <Defendant A>'s own postal bank card.


Upon trial, it was found that during the period from 2017 to 2018, the defendant <Defendant B> purchased gun parts from Taobao and subsequently modified them into firearms and possessed them. According to the appraisal, the firearm was a non-military gun powered by gunpowder. During the period from 2017 to 2018, the defendant <Defendant A> purchased gun parts from Taobao and handed them over to the defendant <Defendant B> in Gangkou Village, Huangtan Township, Fuliang County, Jiangxi Province, to help modify them into firearms. After the defendant <Defendant A> possessed the firearm, it was seized. According to the appraisal, the firearm was a non-military gun powered by gunpowder. On September 19, 2018, the defendant <Defendant B> surrendered to the public security organ and truthfully confessed his criminal facts; on September 11, 2018, the defendant <Defendant A> was arrested and truthfully confessed his criminal facts.


Upon trial, it was found that since May 16, 2019, Dong Moumou (handled in a separate case) conspired with the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, and Ding Moumou (handled in a separate case) to assist others in organizing prostitution activities involving Dong Moumou, Huang Mou, Guo Moujia, Guo Mouyi, Zhang Moumou, and Pan Moumou at XX Building, XX City, Yanta District, Xi'an City. The prostitution services were categorized into two price tiers: 1298 yuan and 1598 yuan. Specifically, <Defendant B> was responsible for escorting clients from downstairs to the reception room 1203, while <Defendant A> was responsible for escorting clients from the reception room to the hotel rooms pre-booked by the prostitutes and collecting the fees via WeChat. During this period, <Defendant A> profited four hundred yuan, and <Defendant B> profited six hundred yuan. On May 20, 2019, due to their suspicious behavior, the defendants <Defendant A> and <Defendant B> were taken back by the police for questioning and truthfully confessed to their criminal activities at XX Building, XX City, Xi'an City.


Upon trial, it was found that the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, and Liu Mou2 (handled in a separate case) were hired by a person with the WeChat name "A Lin Mou 199××××4471" to provide services such as receiving clients, arranging prostitutes, and collecting fees for prostitution activities at a certain hotel in Lingjiao Lake Wanda, Jianghan District, Wuhan City. On the evening of March 26, 2019, the defendant <Defendant A> respectively brought clients Huang Mouzhi and Huang Mouhong to rooms 2322 and 1206 for prostitution and collected the fees. The defendant <Defendant B> respectively brought clients Liu Mou1 and Huang Mou to rooms 1909 and 2224 for prostitution and collected the fees. At around 22:00 on the same day, the public security authorities apprehended the defendants <Defendant A>, <Defendant B>, <Defendant C>, Liu Mou2, as well as clients and prostitutes, totaling fifteen people, at the aforementioned prostitution site.


Upon trial, it was found that around 7:00 AM on June 1, 2019, at the suggestion of <Defendant B>, <Defendant C> and <Defendant A> followed <Defendant B> to the flower market on the west side of Huaihe New City in this district, intending to commit fraud using fake jade they had prepared in advance. <Defendant C> was responsible for setting up a stall at the flower market to sell the fake jade, <Defendant B> pretended to be a buyer at the stall to assist <Defendant C> in selling the fake jade, and <Defendant A> waited nearby with a large quantity of fake jade.

At around 9:00 AM that morning, the victims, Mr. and Mrs. Wang, approached <Defendant C>'s stall to inquire about prices. <Defendant B> pretended to be a buyer and falsely claimed that the jade was genuine, with good quality and material, and that he needed to go back to get money to purchase it. The victims, Mr. and Mrs. Wang, believed the lie and bought the jade for 6,000 yuan. Subsequently, <Defendant C> claimed to have more good jade, alleging that it was all obtained from tomb raiding in Shou County, and offered to sell it to Mr. and Mrs. Wang at a low price to further defraud them. <Defendant C> then contacted <Defendant A>, who was waiting nearby, to bring the remaining fake jade for Mr. and Mrs. Wang to see. They agreed to meet at the roadside near the gate of the Huaihua Group. Believing it to be true, Mr. Wang bought the remaining fake jade for 16,000 yuan.

<Defendant C>, <Defendant A>, and <Defendant B> then fled the scene and split the 22,000 yuan obtained from the fraud. On March 25, 2020, <Defendant B> voluntarily surrendered to the public security authorities. After being apprehended, <Defendant A>, <Defendant C>, and <Defendant B> all willingly signed confessions and plea agreements. On March 12, 2020, <Defendant A> and <Defendant C> each paid 11,000 yuan to the public security authorities. On the same day, the victim Mr. Wang received 22,000 yuan and subsequently issued a letter of forgiveness for the three defendants.