More than 65,000 tons of river sand worth more than 4.6 million yuan were stolen and Jingjiang public security cracked an illegal mining case.

in the Yangtze River Basin will have a significant impact on ecological security, river flood discharge, embankment safety and river regime stability. Since the implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Yangtze River, the crackdown on illegal sand mining along the line has maintained a high-pressure situation, but there are still illegal elements taking risks. A few days ago, Jingjiang Public Security cracked an illegal mining case and destroyed a criminal gang that integrated "mining, transportation, and marketing.". Chen Mou-mou, a native of

Shanghai, has always wanted to get rich. He has opened wholesale departments, Internet cafes and animation cities successively, but all ended in failure and owed millions of yuan in deficit. At the end of 2020, Chen Moumou learned that the price of sand and gravel in the Yangtze River was high and the profit of sand mining was not cheap. He moved his mind and spent millions of yuan to illegally convert his cargo ship into a sand dredger. In order to ensure his own safety, Chen Mou-mou did not board the ship, but called people to act as the "surface" owner of the ship, Xu Mou "lookout", Liu Mou was responsible for operating pump sand mining on the ship. Beginning in August 2021, Chen Mou-mou and his helpers looked for sand mining operations on the shore with good vision, strong concealment and few boats, and transported the sand to a wharf in Yangzhong and Jingjiang for sale, and used cash transactions. In the early morning of December 13, 2021, when they stole river sand for the last time and transported it to the wharf for sale, they were found by the law enforcement officers of Jingjiang Public Security and Jingjiang Water Administration Supervision Brigade who were patrolling at night. The police stripped the cocoons all the way, and a criminal gang of illegal sand mining, which integrates "mining, transportation and marketing", surfaced. After months of tracking, all the criminal suspect in the case have been arrested.

From the early morning of sand mining, gathering sand carriers to meet, and then unloading and selling at the wharf, such an assembly line operation has not stopped for up to five days and five nights. According to the people involved in the case, during the maintenance of Chen's own sand dredger, some illegal sand dredgers would ask him to board the ship "with a pump" (an intermediary for organizing a series of sand suction vessels and sand transport vessels) and charge a certain fee. After several resales, the price of river sand has also risen, and the selling price is more than 100 yuan per ton. Under the temptation of interests, Chen Mou-mou and others gradually lost themselves.

It is understood that from August to December 2021, Chen and others illegally mined sand eight times, totaling more than 65000 tons, involving more than 4.6 million yuan. Recently, Jingjiang Public Security Bureau, Jingjiang Procuratorate, Jingjiang Court, Jingjiang Detention House and Rugao City Court were connected to hear the illegal mining case.