Comedian Cam's drug abuse case leads to a large-scale drug trafficking network, the criminal gang only uses virtual currency for transactions

According to BlockBeats, anti-drug police from the Hongkou Public Security Bureau of the Shanghai police recently revealed that behind the well-known talk show actor Cam is actually a large-scale drug trafficking network, and the criminal gang uses virtual currency for transactions.

In April last year, the Ouyang Road Police Station of the Hongkou Branch arrested a suspect of drug trafficking. Following the clues from this suspect, the police seized a drug trafficking gang engaged in marijuana sales in the city, suspected of selling more than 10 kilograms of marijuana. The marijuana that Kam smoked was provided by this person, and Kam began to buy marijuana from this gang in early January this year. Even during the worst period of the epidemic, Kam was still buying marijuana from drug dealers, and repeatedly allowed colleagues Chen and Li (all employees of Xiaoguo Culture) to smoke marijuana at home.

So how did this suspect of drug trafficking come into the police's sight? The time goes back to last year. At that time, the Hongkou police spent nearly 4 months to successfully crack a drug case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, and destroyed a large-scale drug trafficking network that radiated more than 10 provinces and cities across the country. The suspect of drug trafficking was a relative of a drug dealer in that case.

Huang Ming (pseudonym), a drug police officer at the Hongkou Public Security Bureau, said that drug dealers are now very aware of anti-detection. They use a chat software with a "burn after reading" function to communicate internally, and there is also a special code for contact. Only when the code matches can the transaction continue. The gang's drug money transaction method is also extremely covert. Huang Ming told reporters that this gang does not accept cash transfers, and the downstream buyers must provide drug money to the upstream buyers by purchasing virtual currency.

The upstream dealer then disguises the marijuana as tea or Chinese medicine and sends it to the downstream dealer via express delivery. Generally, the transaction volume is about one or two kilograms. Due to the deceptive packaging, it is difficult to detect.

Original URL: https://finance.sina.cn/2020-06-27/detail-iirczymk9252994.d.html

BlockBeats reminds that according to the document "Risk Warning on Preventing Illegal Fund Raising in the Name of "Virtual Currency" and "Blockchain"" issued by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and other five departments in August 2018, the general public is requested to look at blockchain rationally, not blindly believe in the exaggerated promises, establish correct monetary concepts and investment ideas, and effectively enhance risk awareness; any clues of illegal and criminal activities discovered can be actively reported to the relevant departments.