Placing gambling machines in supermarkets led to more than 20 million yuan and 278 people were arrested.

　　Xu Peng correspondent Chang Yongzhen recently learned from Zaozhuang Public Security Bureau of Shandong Province that after three months of careful layout, Xuecheng Public Security Bureau destroyed criminal gangs that set up casinos in Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places, arrested 278 suspects including Zhou, destroyed 404 dens and seized 380 gambling machines, involving more than 20 million yuan. To this end, the Ministry of Public Security specially sent a congratulatory message to congratulate the bureau on successfully detecting the case of "6 19" opening a casino.

　　The time goes back to April 28th, 2018. During the daily public security management, the police of Tao Zhuang Police Station of Xuecheng Branch found that someone in a supermarket in this town used gambling machines to gamble. The police immediately inspected the supermarket and seized four gambling machines on the spot. Then the police summoned the supermarket owner Cao to the police station for investigation. During the inquiry, the keen police found that Cao was unclear about the basic situation of machine maintenance and the amount of gambling funds, and suspected that the case was otherwise hidden.

　　On May 12th, Xuecheng Branch continued to investigate Cao’s suspicion of opening a casino as a criminal case. With the unremitting efforts of the police, Cao confessed the basic facts of the case. Since April 2017, he and others have placed gambling machines and fishing machines in supermarkets operated by individuals for others to gamble, involving more than 30,000 yuan. At the same time, Cao confessed that the gambling machine in his store was placed by Anhui people, and Anhui people would regularly collect gambling money and maintain the gambling machine.

　　After investigation, Cao was an Anhui native who set up gambling outlets in many provinces. According to the idea of "information flow looking for clues, capital flow looking for evidence", the task force started with the bills involved and the flow of funds, made full use of big data resources such as public security cloud and police thousand degrees, and with the technical support of relevant business departments of Zaozhuang Public Security Bureau, strengthened in-depth analysis and judgment on the information of criminal suspects’ social activities, information communication, etc., and made comprehensive analysis of public security big data, screening and tracking at different levels, and carefully combed the network and organizational structure of the criminal gang.

　　After preliminary investigation, it was determined that the leader of the gang was Zhou Mougan, a native of Huaibei, Anhui Province, and Zhou Moushuai and Chen Mou Dong were its backbone forces. The crimes were committed in ten leeway cities such as Anhui, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces.

　　On the basis of fully grasping the suspect’s foothold, on July 17, more than 30 police officers of the task force went to Huaibei City to carry out the network-closing operation, and arrested 10 gang members such as the suspect Zhou Mogan. Shortly thereafter, the 10 action teams of the task force rushed to Yicheng, Shizhong, Shanting, Tengzhou and other districts and cities in Zaozhuang City, Suzhou City in Anhui Province, Xuzhou City in Jiangsu Province, Linyi, Jining, Heze and other surrounding cities in our province, respectively, and concentrated on the key targets that were sorted out in advance, and arrested 22 suspects.

　　On August 8, 2018, in accordance with the unified deployment of the "broken chain" action of the Ministry of Public Security, the area involved in the case carried out a centralized sweeping operation, and 38 gambling machines of various types were seized, 5 people were detained in criminal detention, 1 person was released on bail pending trial, and 7 people were administratively punished. At present, the case has arrested 278 suspects, destroyed 404 dens and seized 380 gambling machines.

　　Because the case spans many provinces and cities, involving many people, it is very difficult to investigate the case, and the Ministry of Public Security, provincial offices and municipal bureaus have given strong support in technical strength, regional coordination, judgment and analysis. Due to the seriousness of the case, Xuecheng Branch established a task force with Sun Hongwei, deputy head of Xuecheng District Government and director of the branch, as the commander, and the main responsible comrades of various police types as members. More than 130 police officers and auxiliary police officers were deployed to participate in the investigation of the project. All police types and departments firmly established the idea of "playing a game of chess", fighting joint warfare, synthetic warfare and regional coordinated warfare, and formed a concerted effort to tackle the problem.