The Beijing police severely cracked down on illegal and criminal activities involving refined oil

Some lawless personnel engage in illegal scalping activities
without obtaining the qualifications for wholesale, transportation, retail and storage of refined oil products by setting up black gas stations privately, preparing their own oil storage points, and modifying mobile refueling trucks.
Since June 25, the Beijing police have cracked 21 related cases, smashed 8 gangs involved, criminally detained 30 people, seized more than 80 tons of gasoline and diesel, and eliminated the hidden dangers
of social security in a timely manner.

The Beijing police closely followed the sales, transportation and storage links involved in the refined oil market, and carried out special crackdown and rectification operations
.
Photo courtesy of Beijing police

In accordance with the deployment requirements of the "100-day Action" of the Ministry of Public Security and the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau in the summer public security crackdown, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau's Environmental Food and Drug Brigade Corps, together with relevant police departments, closely combined with the "Kunlun 2022" special action, closely followed the sales, transportation and storage links related to the refined oil market, and organized the local sub-bureaus to carry out special crackdowns and rectification
.

On July 12 this year, the Beijing police searched for clues and found that the criminal suspect Zhang Moumou (male, 46 years old) illegally engaged in the illegal and criminal clues
of reselling diesel.
In this regard, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau's Environmental Food and Drug Brigade Corps and the Tongzhou Public Security Sub-Bureau quickly set up a special case group to carry out their work
.
The special case group launched a centralized collection network, smashed the criminal gang of illegal diesel reselling headed by Zhang Moumou, destroyed 4 illegal oil storage dens, and seized 13 "black fuel trucks" and more than 40 tons of
diesel.
At present, Zhang Moumou and 11 other persons involved in the case have been criminally detained
by the Tongzhou Public Security Bureau according to law for suspected dangerous operations.

Yu Yang, deputy head of the ring food and medicine brigade detachment of the Tongzhou Public Security Bureau, said that the criminal gang is well-organized and illegally profits
through the mode of hierarchical sales.
Since October 2021, the main suspect of the gang, Zhang Moumou, has purchased diesel fuel from an oil refinery in another province without obtaining the "Approval Certificate for Retail Operation of Refined Oil", "Hazardous Chemical Business License" and "Road Transport License for Dangerous Goods", stored it in the scrapped oil tank truck in a rural compound in Tongzhou District, and then installed oil pumps, oil guns, metering and other devices, set the compound as a black refueling station, and then distributed it layer by layer to Hao XX (male, 34 years old) who is also an unqualified criminal in the second and third levels of the gang ), Chen Moumou (male, 39 years old), Wang Moumou (male, 21 years old) and other places for scalping
.
These diesel fuels are often sold to the end of large truck operators, construction sites, etc
.
through mobile refueling trucks illegally modified by illegal personnel.

The Beijing police closely followed the sales, transportation and storage links involved in the refined oil market, and carried out special crackdown and rectification operations
.
Photo courtesy of Beijing police

It is reported that in view of the trend of criminal cases of illegal purchase and unlicensed operation of refined oil products in the field of safe production, the Beijing police have set up a special work class for the combined operations of multiple police departments such as the Environmental Food and Drug Brigade, public security, and economic investigation, and have united multiple departments to continuously carry out special crackdowns and rectification
throughout the city.

The Fangshan Public Security Sub-Bureau destroyed a den for illegally selling diesel fuel in the Changyang area of Fangshan and criminally detained 1 person; The Daxing Public Security Bureau has destroyed two illegal oil storage dens in the Daxing Tiangongyuan and Pang Gezhuang areas, and criminally detained 3 people; The Changping Public Security Bureau destroyed an illegal oil storage den in Yangfang Town, Changping, and criminally detained 2 people
.

At the same time, the Beijing police deepened the chaos side by side with administrative departments such as ecological environment, commerce, market supervision, emergency management, and the Transportation Commission, and formed a high-pressure rectification situation against the city's refined oil products illegal crimes through supervision and inspection, information sharing, joint law enforcement and other measures, purifying the order of the Beijing refined oil market to the greatest extent and effectively safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of
consumers.

Beijing police said gasoline and diesel are flammable dangerous goods, while gasoline and diesel with a flash point below 60 °C are also hazardous chemicals
.
Whoever, without approval or permission in accordance with law, engages in highly dangerous production operations such as the production, operation, or storage of dangerous goods without authorization, and has the real danger of major casualties or other serious consequences, may be suspected of the crime
of dangerous operations.
In addition, illegally sold refined oil products that do not meet national standards and the circumstances are serious, may also be suspected of the crime
of producing and selling fake and shoddy products.

Beijing police suggest that when purchasing gasoline and diesel products, consumers should choose regular gas stations, whether from the quality of oil products or the safety of use; For the discovery of oil quality problems or illegal sales, please report to the market supervision department immediately, and call 110 in time to report the clues
involving illegal crimes.