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Source Title: Collecting 126 Million Illegal Wealth Over 20 Years! Hainan Yang Changwu and Others Convicted in First Instance of Gang-Related Criminal Case
Recently, the Second Intermediate People’s Court of Hainan Province issued a first instance verdict in accordance with the law in the case of the defendant Yang Changwu and others involved in gang-related crimes. The organization’s leader, Yang Changwu, committed 18 crimes such as organizing and leading a triad organization and was punished for various crimes. The first instance decided to execute him 25 years in prison, deprive him of his political rights for 5 years and confiscate all his personal property. The other two organizations and leaders, Yang Jianchuan and Yang Changyun, were sentenced to 23 years and 22 years respectively. The remaining 84 defendants were sentenced to a fixed prison term of 1 year, 4 months to 19 years.
The court determined that since 1994, the triad organization has implemented casinos, provocations, forced transactions, willful damage, extortion, obstruction of official duties, bid rigging, illegal occupation of agricultural land, illegal mining, deforestation and a number of activities illegal and criminal, such as buying and selling weapons and ammunition, seeking huge economic benefits, and illegally raising more than 126 million yuan. It has been entrenched in the Changpo area of Qionghai City for more than 20 years. Violent resistance to the law caused a total of 6 minor injuries and 1 minor injury, which caused great psychological fear in the population of the Changpo area. In order to seek illegal protection, the organization courted and corrupted public officials to act as a “protective umbrella.” As a result, the organization’s illegal and criminal activities in Qionghai City have not been suppressed for a long time, which seriously disrupts and disrupts the production, functioning and order of life of the local population. (CCTV reporter from Mao Xin Wei An headquarters)
