Chapter 567: The Incident Happened Suddenly

When Fan Wubing saw everyone gathered, he said, "Today we will discuss the arrangements for Mr. Fan's wedding."

So everyone began to verify step by step according to the previously set agenda, and made additions to the areas that needed to be modified. When everyone heard that Fan Wubing had brought in eighteen armed helicopters from the capital garrison to cheer After that, I was immediately impressed with admiration.

"I guess there are not many things in the world that Mr. Fan can't do." Someone said with emotion.

"That can't be said." Fan Wubing himself was very modest, "For example, within the legal framework, I can only marry one wife."

Everyone smiled and thought to themselves that your wife is a genius female entrepreneur and a talented beautiful girl worth more than billions. If you need to use the suffix "has", it only shows that Mr. Fan's ambition is really too high. Big.

However, Fan Wubing appeared. Most of the people's eyes seemed to be turning between him and Russell Su, who was sitting on the armrest of the sofa. He suddenly understood, but he didn't say anything more. After all, he agreed. In order to protect Russell from some people who don't know how to advance or retreat, I haven't had enough of this old brother's feeling, so naturally I won't expose it.

"Mr. Fan, regarding the issue of the wedding director team, why don't you negotiate with CCTV? They have a natural advantage in this area, which we amateurs cannot compare with." Someone suggested to Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing thought about it and felt that this suggestion was constructive. However, he had not had much contact with CCTV recently and could not think of anyone to go to for the moment. After all, this matter would affect his normal work. It would arouse criticism, and what he was most worried about now was that it would arouse resentment from others, so he said, "Well, I'll contact Lao Chen first and see if he has any ideas that I can learn from."

Since CCTV's Lao Chen retired early from Taiwan at the level of deputy minister, he has relied on the funds provided by Fan Wubing and his popularity accumulated over the years in the media industry to set up an advertising agency, which not only takes on Advertising production, and also undertaking advertising distribution channels to solve problems, is very prosperous now. Many of CCTV's prime time advertisements are produced by them. The profit in a year is very amazing, for a production team of less than 200 people. , with an annual income of more than hundreds of millions of yuan, it does seem relatively rich.

After receiving Fan Wubing's call, Lao Chen was naturally very happy. Fan Wubing could ask for his opinion on such an important issue, which fully demonstrated his position in Fan Wubing's mind, so Lao Chen was very happy. I thought about it carefully and then said to him, "The director team can be formed, but there is no need to find candidates from CCTV to avoid anyone being unhappy. I know many first-line directors, especially those who organize large-scale entertainment activities , let them organize this wedding, make sure it is foolproof, and make this wedding perfect, just listen to the news of victory!"

Fan Wubing was very satisfied with this.

He is very clear about Lao Chen's ability. Since he has taken care of everything, it means that this matter is as simple as pinching a snail with three fingers, and it is foolproof.

But before the discussion here ended, he received an urgent call from Qiu Baohua, asking for his help.

As the first person to have business dealings with Fan Wubing, Qiu Baohua's life was not bad, especially when Fan Wubing asked him to work on the pirated disc production line with Wang Shihan, which made a lot of profits. He was still fond of Fan Wubing. I am more grateful. Fan Wubing usually agrees to any request without any hesitation.

This time Qiu Baohua asked for help urgently, but something happened to his big boss, which implicated him, so he wanted to ask Fan Wubing to help him to escape.

"What happened?" Fan Wubing felt a little surprised. He didn't know what big thing happened recently?

Could it be that Guangdong has started cracking down on organized crime again? But I haven’t heard of it!

"Something happened to Laolai in Xiamen, and we suffered a lot." Qiu Baohua said to Fan Wubing.

"Holy crap, it's true, but the time seems to have been advanced!" Fan Wubing felt a little emotional when he thought of the old man who was taken down by Boss Zhu, that little man who also made his fortune by collecting rags. of.

The high-level officials started to take action against Xiamen after the big case in Zhanjiang.

At this year’s National Anti-Smuggling Work Conference, Chief No. 1 met with the conference representatives and gave important instructions. He emphasized that cracking down on smuggling criminal activities is an important step for the Party Central Committee and the State Council to ensure the healthy development of the economy, safeguard social stability and national security interests. an important deployment. We will resolutely crack down on serious criminal smuggling activities and must not be lenient. At this national anti-smuggling work conference, Boss Zhu also made an important speech, and then a massive anti-smuggling struggle was launched across the country.

Just as the major smuggling case in Zhanjiang was being investigated and a group of smuggling criminals were punished by law, the relevant departments continued to receive reports from the masses about the smuggling situation in the Xiamen Customs District.

The Ministry of Supervision received a letter of report from relevant departments, which reflected that Lao Lai and others colluded with Xiamen Customs and other port management departments internally and externally to engage in illegal smuggling. This report letter attracted the great attention of central leaders.

Then the central leadership issued instructions, deciding to focus on the customs, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection organized and coordinated to thoroughly investigate the case. After planning and preparation, the case handlers officially entered Xiamen, kicking off the investigation of the Xiamen smuggling case.

They entered Xiamen in early September and attacked ten departments in one day. At the same time, some documents and materials were seized, and some people were arrested on the same day. The amount involved in the case exceeded 11 billion yuan in ten days.

Everyone was a little shocked. It took only ten days to investigate and deal with the smuggling case with a value of more than 11 billion yuan, indicating that this case was an unprecedentedly large-scale smuggling case. Therefore, the Xiamen smuggling case was immediately listed as a major case directly handled by the central government, and a central special case leading group was established according to the deployment of the State Council.

Then the elite troops of the relevant departments of discipline inspection, supervision, customs, public security, procuratorate, court, taxation, etc. across the country successively entered Xiamen to launch a comprehensive investigation and handling of the case. The number of case handlers reached thousands. Up to now, the case has been basically investigated. Since 1996, Lao Lai's smuggling criminal group and other smuggling criminals have smuggled imported refined oil, vegetable oil, cars, cigarettes, chemical raw materials, western medicine raw materials, electronic machinery and other goods worth up to 53 billion yuan in the Xiamen Customs District, evading more than 30 billion yuan in taxes. This is the largest smuggling case investigated since the founding of the People's Republic of China. According to the investigation, most of the smuggling criminal activities in the Xiamen Customs District are related to Lao Lai's smuggling criminal group.

Fan Wubing had heard about Lao Lai's affairs a long time ago. He was originally a farmer in Jinjiang, Fujian, and he didn't even finish elementary school. In 1994, he registered and established a company in Xiamen, and then began a crazy smuggling criminal activity. At that time, the factory was empty, and there was no production equipment. There were only fitness equipment piled up on the second floor.

In fact, after further investigation, it was discovered that it was a training ground where he trained his thugs. In order to cover up his smuggling activities and other illegal activities, he hired dozens of thugs to form a so-called security team. Whenever the goods arrived at the shore, he would send dozens of thugs to surround the smuggled goods, and no one else could get in.

Lao Lai's smuggling criminal group was very tightly organized and the division of labor was very detailed. For example, every time the smuggled goods were organized from overseas sources, to sea transportation, customs clearance to domestic sales, money laundering after sales, and foreign exchange payments, there were dedicated people in charge. Lao Lai himself was a decision-maker in the smuggling group. He personally directed and led every major smuggling activity. His younger brother was responsible for smuggling cars, and he also had a group of backbone members under him.

In order to carry out crazy smuggling criminal activities, Lao Lai rented a special dock, built large warehouses, and registered a company specifically to sell smuggled goods.

According to the investigation, over the past three years, the smuggling criminal group and other smuggling criminals have smuggled more than 4.5 million tons of imported refined oil. On average, a 10,000-ton oil tanker arrived in Xiamen every three days under their command. Through illegal declaration of the name of the goods, more than 3 million boxes of imported cigarettes were smuggled in. At one time, one out of every two boxes of a certain brand of foreign cigarettes on the domestic black market was smuggled by them.

The total amount of tariffs and value-added taxes collected by Xiamen Customs in the past three years was only 5 billion yuan, while basically in the same period of time, the taxes that were evaded by smuggling in the Xiamen Customs area were only 30 billion yuan, which was six times the total tariffs collected by Xiamen Customs. The smuggling criminal group of Lao Lai has been engaged in such appalling and crazy smuggling activities for several years, but has never been cracked down by the relevant departments.

The crazy smuggling for several consecutive years has never been investigated and dealt with by the relevant departments. It can be seen that the network of relationships woven by Lao Lai plays an important role in all links that are responsible for supervising and cracking down on smuggling. It was under the protection of this network of relationships that his smuggling crimes became more and more rampant and unscrupulous, and he became the so-called leader of smuggling in the Xiamen Customs area.

National interests cannot be violated, and national laws cannot be desecrated. After efforts, the discipline inspection, supervision, customs, public security, procuratorate, court, finance, taxation and other departments worked together to handle the case, and the case of Xiamen's major smuggling case and related duty crimes was basically clarified. During this period, more than 600 people involved in the case were investigated.

The headquarters of Lao Lai's company, the small red building on the left side of the gate is called the office building. This seemingly inconspicuous red building is very famous in Xiamen City. Many Xiamen people know that there are often leaders coming in and out here.

This so-called office building with an ordinary appearance is very luxurious inside, and it is an absolutely extravagant place of enjoyment. Here you can eat, drink and have fun in one go. The first floor is the reception lobby, and you can eat and drink on the second floor. There are four private rooms in total. After drinking and eating here, you can go to the third floor to enjoy sauna massage and mandarin duck bath. There are four rooms that provide such services. After sauna, massage, and couple's bath, it's time to sober up. There is a small movie theater and three KTV rooms on the fourth floor, where you can sing and dance to your heart's content. Drinking, sauna, massage, singing and dancing one after another, it's really tiring.

But it doesn't matter. Boss Lai has thought carefully. There are fully equipped luxurious rooms on the fifth and sixth floors, making you feel like you are in a presidential suite. Of course, in addition to these luxurious facilities, there are also young and beautiful ladies who provide thoughtful and special services to the leaders who patronize the Red Mansion.

At that time, a total investment of 140 million yuan was invested in the Red Mansion. In order to win over corrupt cadres, Lao Lai's smuggling criminal group invested huge sums of money to build the Red Mansion. It seems that this leader of the seemingly honest smuggling criminal group who had not even finished elementary school In order to weave a network of relationships around myself, it can be said that it takes a lot of effort.

However, his efforts were not in vain. Over the past few years, some leading party and government cadres have become frequent visitors to the Red Building, and the Red Building has become a place where he and these leading cadres trade power for money and sex.

The old man is very generous and shows no mercy in winning over people. If you like a car, I will give you a car. If you like a house, I will give you a house. If you like a woman, I will give you a woman. If you like gambling, I will give you gambling money. I will give you whatever you like. He can figure out your hobbies and weaknesses during the contact process, and then prescribe the right medicine to make you take the poison and you will never be able to spit it out again. You can only follow him, do things for him, and provide convenience for him.

The government has severely cracked down on smuggling, and has a series of systems and mechanisms in place to combat smuggling. To smuggle, you need to go through many checkpoints, but what is sad is that these checkpoints have become a decoration in front of Lai Changxing in the past few years. In order to carry out large-scale smuggling more smoothly, Lao Lai used the money obtained from smuggling to recruit and corrupt cadres of party and government agencies and relevant functional departments in various ways. He has carefully woven protective nets.

It is said that there is a stone lion on each side of the Xiamen Customs gate. Interestingly, in front of this stone lion there are two coins with "auspicious stars shining brightly and attracting wealth". This may reflect the thinking of some leading cadres of Xiamen Customs at that time. This desire, and it was under the control of this desire that a group of Xiamen Customs cadres fell in front of his money.

Among the more than 150 people who have been transferred to judicial organs for suspected duty-related crimes, more than 70 are officials of Xiamen Customs, including the former Xiamen Customs Commissioner, deputy commissioners and heads of various key departments.

Over the past few years, Xiamen Customs, which is supposed to guard the country's borders, has become completely useless in front of smuggling groups. Haixin Storage Yard is the most important cargo yard for smuggled goods by criminal smuggling groups. Over the past three years, this place has been busy almost every day, with more than 10 billion yuan worth of smuggled goods transshipped here.

"Lao Qiu, you are in big trouble this time." Fan Wubing said a little helplessly.