Jining, Shandong Province cracked the case of ＂12.15＂ mega-network spreading obscene articles for profit.
Legal Network Jining (Shandong) August 20th Reporter Xu Peng On the evening of August 16th, seven main suspects who fled Malaysia landed at Yaoqiang Airport in Jinan by plane and surrendered themselves to Jining police in Shandong. At this point, the "12.15" cross-border mega-network dissemination of obscene articles for profit has basically ended.
In this case, 12 related yellow-related live broadcast platforms were sorted out. The suspects were spread all over the country in 16 provinces and cities and overseas in Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and other places. 62 suspects involved in platform management, operation, promotion, family heads and anchors were arrested. The first batch of 16 people were transferred, and 22 people were to be arrested. More than 21 million people involved in the case were frozen and one case was seized. From the root, the whole chain destroyed the criminal gang of the webcast platform and completely eradicated this yellow "cancer" that seriously endangered society.
Statistics show that these platforms have more than 2 million registered members, with hundreds of millions of viewers clicking, and the amount involved exceeds 100 million yuan. In 2018, the "12.15" case was listed as a supervision case of "eliminating pornography and illegal publications" by the National Anti-vice Office and the Ministry of Public Security.
It is understood that due to many factors such as low crime cost, high specialization and virtual network, this case is very difficult to crack down, and it is not easy to achieve the whole chain attack from anchor, family leader to management members, shareholders and top management personnel.
According to the investigators, at present, more than 260 live broadcast platforms related to pornography are online at the peak, and only 12 are related to the case, which highlights the confusion in the management of the current live webcast platform, especially the obscene video images spread, which makes people collapse instantly, greatly endangering the physical and mental health of young people.
A small clue leads to a major case involving 100 million yuan.
Sexual intercourse, promiscuity, incest, props performance, including obscene videos of children, mother and child, mother and daughter, human and dog, same sex, exposure of sexual organs, etc., were vividly shown in this case. In fact, this case was led by a small clue.
At the beginning of December, 2017, the office of the leading group for "eliminating pornography and illegal publications" in Jining City immediately set up a "12.15" task force based on a case clue provided by the Public Security Detachment of the Municipal Public Security Bureau to open a live broadcast room for obscene performances, which was jointly operated by the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau of Jining Cultural Market.
According to relevant clues, the task force found out that since 2017, criminal suspects Yan and Chu have been engaged in profit-making activities of spreading obscene articles on webcast platforms such as "September Live". Subsequently, the task force tracked down a "small clue" and found out a rare large-scale cross-border network to spread obscene articles for profit.
The public security department and the cultural law enforcement department of Jining City shall, in accordance with the scope of their duties, define the division of labor and work together. Cultural law enforcement departments are responsible for providing online places for handling cases and obtaining evidence, equipment for obtaining evidence and funds necessary for handling cases and obtaining evidence online. At the same time, they give full play to their professional and technical advantages to conduct online remote inspection and obtaining evidence through the network monitoring platform, and assist the public security departments in interrogating and arresting criminal suspects. The public security department integrates a variety of investigation elements, takes advantage of big data technology to investigate the identity information, fund account number, fund chain and personnel chain of criminal suspects, is responsible for the interrogation and arrest of criminal suspects, and assists cultural law enforcement departments in network remote inspection and network video forensics.
Subsequently, the task force followed suit, and after more than eight months of hard work, the personnel chain, capital chain and technology chain involved in the "September live broadcast" have been identified. The pornographic webcast platform has more than 2 million registered members, hundreds of millions of viewers’ clicks and hundreds of millions of yuan involved. The personnel composition is: "Member — Anchor — Family leader — Manage members — Shareholders — The top management members are six levels, and the suspects are distributed in 16 provinces and countries such as Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. It is a rare case in the country to spread obscene articles through cross-border mega-networks. After the case was found out, the office of the leading group for "eliminating pornography and illegal publications" in Jining City began to close the net. As of August 16, the task force had arrested 62 suspects involved in the case and frozen more than 21 million yuan of funds involved. At the same time, 12 platforms related to this were destroyed, such as "live broadcast of honey juice", "shallow live broadcast", "cat", "allow beauty" and "ram"
According to the investigators, members recharge the platform through Alipay or WeChat in exchange for platform currency, and the exchange rate is about RMB to 10 platform currency in 1 yuan. There are various virtual gifts in the studio, such as cucumbers, bananas, diamond rings, flowers, sports cars, bombers, passenger planes and rockets. Among them, sports cars, 888 diamonds/car; Bomber, 1314 diamonds/frame; Passenger plane, 8888 diamonds/frame; Rockets, 18888 diamonds/piece, etc.
"There are three main forms of communication. One is the free and open live broadcast of members, preparing for the next charge to provide obscene videos, and occasionally performing obscene performances to attract audiences, which is equivalent to advertising in physical stores; Second, the obscene performances charged by time or time; The third is to pay for the virtual gift to the anchor. When the gift reaches a certain value (usually a sports car or bomber), the anchor adds members WeChat and QQ, and sends obscene videos to members after establishing WeChat groups and QQ groups. " The case handler said.
It is extremely difficult to strike with clear hierarchy.
Through the analysis of "live broadcast in September", the task force found that the division of labor was very clear. Management members, shareholders and top management members are responsible for the management of the platform, the head of the family manages the anchor, and members pay to watch. The income distribution among management members, shareholders, top management members, family heads and anchors is 37-30, that is, about 70% of the total revenue of the platform is paid to the family heads, and the family heads are then distributed to the anchors (the share of family heads and anchors accounts for 20%: 50% of the total revenue of the platform); 30% is platform gross profit, and after deducting some operating costs (cloud service fees, venue rental fees, personnel employment fees, etc.), it is platform net profit.
According to the investigators, the same anchor can be online on multiple platforms at the same time, and hundreds of live broadcast rooms on the same platform can be broadcast live at the same time. The number of real-time online viewers on the same platform is very large.
"The income of the anchor is very considerable. Ordinary" anchors "earn as little as 1,000 yuan a day, and well-known" anchors "earn more than 20,000 yuan a day. If they broadcast live on multiple platforms at the same time, the income will be higher." According to the investigators, each anchor watched hundreds of members and thousands of people watched online, and found that more than 240,000 people watched the same anchor performance. "What’s more, there are a large number of teenagers in the audience, and there is a trend of younger development."
Although Moulido is harmful, the investment of the whole platform is not high, the threshold is low, and it is very difficult to crack down.
"The cost of building an entire live broadcast platform does not exceed 1000 yuan at most." Fan Cunchang, deputy director of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau of Jining Cultural Market, often said that the first step is to buy the platform source code only by 10 yuan, the second step is to rent the server, then set up the platform, and use the purchased source code to build the mobile phone application of the live broadcast platform, and the third step is to apply for third-party login interfaces such as WeChat, QQ and Sina Weibo, and third-party payment interfaces such as Alipay. "‘ Live in September ’ For example, the initial investment is only more than 600,000 yuan, and the illegal profit is as high as tens of millions of yuan. "
Moreover, the live broadcast platform has many ways to avoid supervision, and it is spread by scanning QR codes and downloading, and it also avoids supervision by changing its name and platform version from time to time. Viewers can register as members to watch only through the verification code of mobile phone number or through the binding of third-party software such as WeChat, without real-name authentication.
"The people involved have strong anti-reconnaissance ability and their true identity is hidden." The case-handling personnel said that the illegal live broadcast platform did not fulfill the principle of "real name in the background and voluntary in the front desk" of the regular live broadcast platform, and the anchor room could be directly certified for the female anchor to perform without real-name certification. Most of the people involved in the case contact each other through the Internet, and even they don’t know each other. They can contact each other only through virtual identities such as WeChat, and even the accounts for collection and payment steal other people’s identity information, which brings great difficulties to the identification of the true identity of the people involved.
Webcast chaos is in urgent need of supervision.
"The aggregation platform steals the traffic of the live broadcast platform through hacking technology, which can maximize the collection of common online platforms related to pornography." The police investigating the case said that the analysis found that about 260 live broadcast platforms were online at the same time during the peak of live broadcast. "The chaos in the field of webcasting can be seen."
"Webcasts are mainly supported by the number of viewers. With a huge audience, there will be no income. Moreover, the technical requirements of the live broadcast platform are low, and it is very simple for live broadcast women to want to broadcast live, as long as they have a computer or smart phone. " The police handling the case said.
At the same time, the whole criminal process is highly specialized. "For example, in the past, the transfer of stolen money was converted between different bank cards, and now it is directly handed over to a professional money laundering company, and it is very difficult to check the capital flow." According to the police investigating the case, information such as WeChat, QQ number and telephone number are basically false, and identity authentication is not simple.
"Like this case, the main suspects are abroad, and the servers are also abroad. When arresting, international police law enforcement cooperation is needed, and sometimes it is not smooth." The police handling the case said.
Fan Cunchang suggested that according to the new situation that the network market has become the main battlefield of the cultural market, we should select high-quality talents such as computer majors, set up a professional network culture law enforcement team, strengthen the supervision and management of network violations, and be fully responsible for investigating cases in the network field, so as to create a clear cyberspace environment and escort the healthy growth of teenagers.
"The National Anti-vice Office has established a major case filing system. It is suggested that the Provincial Anti-vice Office should also establish a major case supervision system and set up special funds to reward key cases. After research, the cases declared by various cities will be included in the supervision cases for publication. At the end of the year, the cities that have completed the supervision cases will be given special funds for handling cases. At the same time, special regulations for handling special funds for cases were introduced to ensure that grassroots case handlers can effectively and permanently investigate the project. " Fan Cun often said.
In view of the new situation and new characteristics of frequent illegal cases such as webcasting, Fan Cunchang suggested that the national and provincial anti-vice offices should hold more training courses on how to investigate and deal with online cases in order to adapt to the challenges brought by the increasingly diverse and hidden criminal means to law enforcement.