The police today (26th) dismantled a "salt dish" workshop controlled by a gang, smashed a burning and packaging workshop in the outskirts of Yuen Long, and broke 8 distribution points in West Kowloon.
During the operation, the police arrested 13 men, including 4 illegal Mainland workers, and seized pornographic CDs and burning tools worth more than 2.4 million.
It is reported that the salty dish workshop involved is controlled by the gang "He Shenghe". It operates for half a year. With a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, it includes board and lodging. It hires gangsters from the Mainland to come to Hong Kong to "burn the dish" and distribute it in different locations. The price of each shop varies. , The most expensive is 100 yuan for 7 CDs, and the cheapest is 200 yuan for 20 CDs.
During the operation, a total of 80,000 pornographic discs were seized.
(Photo by Lin Zhenhua)
The police today (26th) carried out the "Needle Operation" to smash a triad criminal activity, smashed a salty dish factory controlled by a gang, and arrested 13 men, including 9 local men and 4 Illegal immigrants entering the Mainland.
(Age between 26 and 72 years), they are suspected of "possessing obscene articles for publication", "posting obscene articles", "hiring persons who are not legally employable" and "without authorization from the Director of Immigration" "Remaining in Hong Kong" and other crimes.
Inspector Su Yingchun, the head of the third team of the anti-triad operation team of the Mong Kok Police District, said that after a month of intelligence analysis, a 2000-square-foot pornographic CD recording and packaging factory was smashed in the outskirts of Yuen Long at 2 pm today. , The address is concealed by a warehouse.
During the operation, a total of 27 burners commonly known as "one open ten", 80,000 optical discs and packaging tools and materials were seized, with an estimated value of more than 2.4 million.
Then, the police smashed eight distribution points in West Kowloon, Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po and other places.
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Su Yingchun said that the group operates in one-stop operation, from burning, packaging, shipping to distribution.
The group hires mainlanders with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, and requires them to burn CDs according to orders every day, and then assign drivers to transport them to distribution points.
The police estimate that the syndicate sells pornographic discs and earns up to 5 million yuan a month. It is believed that this operation blocked the main source of income of the gang, and arrested the backbone and masterminds, successfully dismantling the syndicate. All the arrested persons are being detained for investigation.
The police will follow the direction of the triad’s illegal income sources to investigate, and it is not ruled out that more people will be arrested, and continue to crack down on the crimes of gangsters in the area and their sources of income.
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