What is "exclusive liquor"? There is no elaborate packaging, and there is no detailed information, and the words "exclusive liquor for military regions" are simply printed on the bottle. This mysterious-looking "special liquor" is not only not a high-quality liquor, but also a fake liquor that is illegally produced and sold. In order to severely crack down on the illegal production and sale of "special liquor" and "special liquor" in accordance with the law, the Ministry of Public Security has deployed and launched a nationwide "clean wind" special operation.
Mr. Chen, a businessman from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, often has dinner meetings with his business partners, so he often buys all kinds of drinks online for reception.
Wine sales staff: This is "exclusive" for one of our districts. Then there is a 15-year-old base wine, with very good hops and a yellow color, 2012 vintage. People who have drunk it have a very high opinion of it, and the exclusive one must be.
In this video, the salesperson mysteriously recommended this "exclusive wine", and deliberately blocked the word "military" on the packaging box, saying that it was "a special wine for a certain district". The packaging is low-key, and the words "not for sale" are printed, which aroused Mr. Chen's interest, and after expressing his intention to buy to the other party, the sales staff introduced that this "special wine" is 350 yuan a bottle, the quality is guaranteed, and the fake one is fined ten.
Complainant Mr. Chen: When the video was sent to her, I told her that I wanted this wine, and she said that it was 2100 (yuan) for 6 bottles a piece, so I bought two pieces at that time, and she shipped them to me the next day.
A few days later, Mr. Chen was about to invite friends to a party, so he brought a piece of this "special wine" and wanted to invite his friends to taste it, but he didn't expect that something happened to him at the party.
Reporter Mr. Chen: At that time, I also told them that this wine was not easy to buy and that it was a "special" wine from the military region, and then my friend said, "You must have been deceived, these "special supplies" and "special supplies" are all deceptive, and you must be fake wine, which makes me so embarrassed.
There are a total of 12 bottles of two wines, which cost Mr. Chen more than 4,000 yuan, and the sales staff is so high-profile to sell, whether it is from the packaging or the color of the wine, Mr. Chen feels that there is no flaw, so is this wine a fake?
Under the persuasion of his friend, Mr. Chen filed a complaint with the Chengdu market supervision department, and then the clue was handed over to the local police for investigation. The police handling the case found that the group of people who sold "exclusive liquor" had opened liquor sales accounts on multiple short video platforms, and often opened live broadcasts for sales.
Chen Hongbao, Deputy Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: They have been selling various brands of alcohol, and then suddenly inserted a "special wine" and "special wine", giving people the impression that the sales are all regular products, and there will be no fakes. When making sales, it is said that the wine is real, and the fake one pays ten, so as to reassure the customer.
The police handling the case found that in the process of promoting this so-called "exclusive liquor", the gang would deliberately cover up the word "military" on the package to further confuse consumers by creating a sense of mystery.
At the same time, in the whole process of selling wine, these salespeople have also developed a complete sales strategy, and the target group is also very clear, when a consumer leaves a message saying that they want to buy this "exclusive wine", the sales staff will add the contact information of the consumer to avoid private transactions on the platform. In order to find out the source of these so-called "special liquors", the police who handled the case launched an in-depth investigation.
Through investigation, the police found that the warehouse where these "special liquors" were stored was hidden in a food trading market, but because the identity information of the sender was fictitious, it was difficult for the police to find out the suspects involved in the case among nearly 1,000 merchants.
Huang Hao, deputy director of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: The suspects also knew that their behavior was illegal, and the public security organs would crack down on them in accordance with the law.
Look for clues of "exclusive liquor" There are discoveries
After grasping a series of characteristics such as the appearance, size, and style of these "exclusive liquors", the police analyzed that since the warehouse where the "exclusive liquor" was sent was located in this food trading market, it was very likely that these liquors would leave clues during transportation. As a result, the police carried out an investigation of all the transport vehicles that had recently entered and exited the market, and the case quickly made new progress.
With the deepening of the investigation, the police who handled the case made a discovery, and the video footage showed that at about 9:28 on April 11, a red van truck was parked outside the gate of the food market, and several suspected staff members were waiting on the side with a flatbed truck. After the car came to a stop, the men began to unload. After zooming in on the video, the police found that the unloaded goods, from the outside, were highly similar to the carton packaging of the "special liquor" involved in the case, and after unloading, the goods were transported to a building in the market.
This building has 6 floors and hundreds of rooms, and the investigators could not confirm the specific location of this batch of "special liquor" for a while, and then the police increased their police force at various exits of the building, paying close attention to the people entering and leaving the building.
Chen Hongbao, Deputy Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: On April 27, 2024, we found that the courier of a courier company came to receive the goods, and he went directly to the 6th floor when he pressed the elevator.
On April 28, the police launched a net collection operation, and in a room on the sixth floor, the police arrested several suspects in charge of warehousing, but in this room, the police did not find the "special liquor" involved in the case, and several suspects also took chances and refused to confess.
Chen Hongbao, deputy captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: I have always had a fluke mentality, he said that there is no "special wine" or "special wine" for sales, and all the wine sold is regular wine.
According to the police analysis, there were about 700 pieces of "special wine" removed from the red van on April 11, and during this period, the investigating police did not find any signs of this batch of wine being transferred in large quantities, and it was impossible for the group to sell all the wine in just a few days, so there must be a remaining "special wine" in a room on the 6th floor.
Chen Hongbao, Deputy Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: Then we investigated one by one, and when we checked more than 10 rooms, we found this batch of "special wine" in one of the rooms, and there were more than 600 pieces of "special wine" left at that time.
After investigation, the organizer of this criminal gang selling "exclusive liquor" is a woman named Liu, she recruited a number of anchors to promote and sell on the short video platform, when a consumer said that he wanted to buy "exclusive liquor", the sales staff will trade privately with consumers, and finally the warehousing and warehouse management personnel will follow up and deliver the goods. After clarifying the entire sales process, the police took immediate action and arrested the suspect Liu.
Although the criminal suspect Liu, who organized the sale of "special liquor" through the online live broadcast room, has been arrested, the investigation of the case has not stopped.
In order to find out the source of the "exclusive liquor" involved in the case, the police launched a further investigation around Liu. Soon, they found out that it was a man named Chen who provided Liu with these "special wines".
The police handling the case judged that Chen was likely to be the main suspect behind the scenes of the production of these so-called "exclusive liquor", and through investigation, the police quickly clarified Chen's true identity.
Chen Hongbao, Deputy Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: Why did Chen make this wine? Because he is a family in the wine industry, he has been interested in making wine and selling wine since he was a child. In order to achieve the purpose of profit, he organized packaging material suppliers to produce packaging materials, organize wine bottle manufacturers to produce wine bottles, and then fill the base wine. Subsequently, we organized personnel to arrest Chen overnight.
Careful design of each production link
During the investigation, the police found that the suspect Chen was meticulous in order to produce these "exclusive wines", from the purchase of base wine to the production of packaging materials, to the filling of finished products, he made careful designs. The purpose is to convince consumers who buy this "exclusive sake" that it is true. In order to wipe out the criminal chain of producing and selling "exclusive liquor", the Chengdu police launched further investigations around the various production links of the "exclusive liquor" involved in the case.
According to the police, after Chen had the idea of producing "exclusive liquor", he first worked with his subordinate Lin to design the outer packaging drawings of "exclusive liquor", and then contacted the winery to negotiate the price of the base wine, and then they organized a paper shell packaging company and a glass products company to customize the production of packaging materials, and finally, the winery prepared and filled the base liquor and packaged it for sale. In this way, a bottle of wine with raw materials and packaging cost no more than 40 yuan has become the so-called "exclusive wine" in the mouth of the sales staff, and finally sold to consumers at a price of 350 yuan per bottle.
Chen Hongbao, Deputy Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: After identifying the personnel of their packaging material manufacturers, wine bottle manufacturers, and filling manufacturers, we organized the police force and collected the net of these dens and bosses at the same time.
When investigating and dealing with a den for the production, blending and filling of base wine, the police found that the production conditions here can be described as dirty, messy and poor. Here, the room is covered with dust, and barrels and filling tools are scattered everywhere, and the production staff will pull the base wine out of these tanks and transfer them to white plastic barrels as needed. The on-site production environment is worrying, and it is in this environment that the so-called "exclusive sake" is produced.
At the scene, the police found that these base wines were colorless, and the finished "special wine" after filling was slightly yellow. In further investigation, the police found that in order to package the "special liquor" into the so-called aged old liquor, at first, they would directly add pigments to the base liquor for blending, and later in order to make the fake confusing, they changed to something called "koji medicine" to color the "exclusive liquor".
Wu Sicheng, police officer of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: Quyao is the raw material used in the brewing process of sauce (fragrant) wine, and its main ingredients are wheat and sorghum. The resulting wine is colorless and transparent, which does not affect the color of the wine. Chen's use of koji medicine to make wine and dye the wine body yellow violated the national standard for the manufacture of soy sauce (fragrant) wine.
In order to achieve the purpose of passing off as an old wine, Chen not only colored the wine, but also made a full article on the packaging.
Chen Hongbao, deputy captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Shuangliu District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: A "15" was marked on the wine box, and he claimed that the wine was the base wine that had been stored for 15 years before filling; The second bottle is marked "2012", which means that it is an "aged wine" produced in 2012.
In this way, a bottle of cheap and fresh liquor, through Chen's words and packaging, has become an old liquor that has been brewed for 27 years. Not only that, in order to make a good "play", Chen also forged a "commissioned production agreement", which said "This product is not sold to the outside world, it is an internal supply product, and the drinking population is special, so it puts forward higher requirements for product quality", and at Party A, it also printed the forged official seal of "Liaison Supply Office for Reception Commodities of a Military Region", but in fact this official seal does not exist at all.
In further investigation, the police found that in addition to supplying Liu for distribution, these "special liquors" produced by Chen were also sent to Wang in other provinces in large quantities, and then the Chengdu police took immediate action to arrest Wang.
At present, the Chengdu police have smashed 15 production, sales and storage dens, and seized more than 11,000 bottles of "special liquor" involved in the case.
Elaborate design to confuse consumers "Exclusive wine" is fake
At present, eight criminal suspects have been transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution. Through a series of elaborate designs, a bottle of wine that costs no more than a few tens of yuan has been transformed into a so-called "exclusive wine", and finally sold at several times the price. So, do these "special wines" and "special wines" really exist? The answer is: not at all. Anyone who claims to be a "special wine" or a "special wine" is a fake!
Since the Ministry of Public Security launched the "Clean Wind" special operation, public security organs in various localities have cracked a number of typical cases of manufacturing and selling "special liquor" and "special liquor". After investigation, the so-called "special liquor" and "exclusive liquor" involved in these cases have many names, and the criminal suspects usually fraudulently use the names of party, government, military and other units to fabricate the concepts of "special supply" and "exclusive supply", and confuse consumers through "exquisite" packaging. In many cases, the criminals packaged the inferior fake liquor as a well-known brand of "special and exclusive liquor", but in this case, the liquor involved in the case did not pass off as a well-known liquor brand, which is a new type of case involving "special liquor" and "exclusive liquor".
Chen Songsong, deputy head of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Detachment of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau: The "special liquor" of the military region in this case did not infringe on the registered trademark, nor did it involve the logo of the famous brand enterprise and the enterprise.
So, is there a real "special" and "exclusive" wine? The answer is no. In 2013, the State Administration and the Central Administration jointly issued the "Notice on Strictly Prohibiting the Central and State Organs from Using the Logos of "Special Supply" and "Special Supply". In 2022, six departments, including the Logistics Support Department of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of Public Security, also jointly issued the "Notice on Prohibiting the Sale of Tobacco and Alcohol and Other Commodities under the "Army" Brand.
It can be seen from this that all the "special," "exclusive," and "internal" commodities on the market that are manufactured and sold under the guise of party and government organs and the military are fake, and the police remind us that we must beware of such consumer traps to avoid being deceived.
According to the police, the so-called "special liquor" and "special liquor" are all illegally produced, without formal quality inspection and licensing procedures, due to the lack of supervision, the quality of these liquor is often difficult to guarantee, most of the suspects use low-cost, low-quality liquor, the production site is not up to standard, there are serious food safety hazards.
Zhang Ronghong, head of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Corps of the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department: "Special liquor" and "special liquor" have deceived consumers, and consumers mistakenly believe that these liquors are high-grade liquor, but in fact they are some low-grade liquor, which damages the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. In the next step, we will dig deep and expand criminal clues, always maintain a high-pressure and strict posture, insist on hitting the source, ending dens, and chasing the flow, and effectively curb the criminal activities of illegally producing and selling "special liquor".
(CCTV News Client)