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    Dead turtle bone is sold to pharmaceutical enterprises as medicine

    • Last Update: 2013-09-10
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Turtle bone, as a raw material of traditional Chinese medicine, is widely used in treatment Some people are eager to buy dead turtle at a low price, and use natural decomposition, iron pot cooking and other means to process them into bones, sell them to the drug market, flow into pharmaceutical enterprises, and become raw materials of traditional Chinese medicine Pinghu police in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province recently destroyed a group specializing in the production and sale of dead and dead armour and fish bones, involving more than 4 million yuan Six suspects, including Luo and Zhou, were detained, and seven suspects, including Wang, were released on bail Since July, the public security team of Pinghu Municipal Public Security Bureau and Caoqiao police station have found that some villagers in kongjiayan, Caoqiao street, are buying and processing dead armour and fish bones for sale in the special action of "fighting against four evils and eliminating four evils" Pinghu police special investigation team found that dead turtles were randomly stacked in the pigsty, water tank, cellar and other places of the villagers' home After natural decay, they sent out a lot of stench, and the flies and mosquitoes around them were buzzing Through more than one month's investigation, the criminal chain of producing and selling dead armour and bones, which is composed of Luomou in Yichun, Jiangxi, zhoumou in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang, kongjiayan, kongkou, Wangmou, etc., gradually emerged On August 14 and 15, Pinghu Municipal Public Security Bureau organized more than 60 police forces to carry out centralized network collection Nine suspects, including Wang, Luo and Kong, were arrested and more than 6000 kilograms of dead turtle bones, worth more than 100000 yuan, were seized on the spot Since then, Zhou's cousin and son came to the public security organ to surrender themselves, so far, all 13 suspects in this case were arrested How are these dead armour bones produced, sold and finally put on the market? After investigation and evidence collection, the police found that since 2009, Kong and Wang have bought dead armour from turtle farmers in Pinghu, Jiashan, Haiyan, Haining and other places at the price of six or seven jiao per Jin, and stored in their own water tanks, cellars, pigsty, which will naturally corrupt the dead armour in hot weather, When the weather is cold, they use iron pot to cook and other methods to process them into armour fish bones and buy them at home Zhou and his cousin are in charge of home purchase Zhou often rides an electric tricycle to the villagers' home, buys dead and dead turtle bones at a price of about one Jin Yuan and puts them in a rental house When the amount is large, he asks his son a Feng to drive a truck to transport the turtle bones to Xiaoshan and put them in a warehouse built of color steel plates on the north side of Zhou's home Luo is Zhou's last home After the goods are fully prepared, Zhou contacts Luo, who drives the car to carry the goods, and Zhou earns the difference between Yuan and yuan per Jin It is understood that Luo rented a front room in Xintang Town of Xiaoshan, which was operated by him and his wife, and hired his sister and brother-in-law as helpers The dead armour bones purchased by Luo are cleaned by his elder sister and brother-in-law, dried and packed in gunny bags They are sold to the medicinal materials market in Bozhou, Jiangxi, Hainan and other places in Anhui Province at a price of RMB to RMB per Jin, and finally used as raw materials of Chinese medicinal materials by some pharmaceutical enterprises After investigation, Luo was suspected of selling more than 4 million yuan of dead and dead armour bones, making an illegal profit of more than 1 million yuan When being questioned by the police, most of the suspects said that the dead turtle bones are definitely bad for human body, and the purpose of acquisition and resale is to make money.
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