A foreign trade factory producing soccer balls in Yiwu City.
At present, the governments of the Communist Party of China are financially strained, and in order to protect themselves, they are robbing foreign merchants. Among them, in the name of “law enforcement” means to freeze foreign trade accounts off-site, has been popular for more than a year, so that some foreign trade industry in trouble. A few days ago Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, the public security letter to the national public security plea, become a true picture of this chaos.
Recently, the Chinese network circulated on the signature “Yiwu City Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation Brigade” of “a letter to the public security organs around the country. According to land media reports, the letter was circulated as early as mid-March, and was first prepared internally by the Yiwu Public Security Bureau, and then circulated online after individual merchants took photos and forwarded them to their circles of friends.
The letter said that the outbreak of the epidemic has caused a huge impact on Yiwu, an internationally renowned market for small commodities, and the frequent freezing of foreign trade accounts of Yiwu merchants around the public security, more Yiwu market operations snowballed, “the emergence of enterprises facing bankruptcy due to liquidity problems, operators can not pay suppliers, and even the issue of wages and other circumstances, to Yiwu economy and social Stability caused by the great impact, and a number of group petitions, petition incidents. Yiwu authorities have been drawn from a number of departments to form an assistance center, specifically to help operators deal with the freezing of accounts.
The letter explains the objective situation of foreign trade merchants in Yiwu can not dominate the channels for receiving and paying for goods, and suggests that public security in the field to give “full understanding”, strict evidence in the law enforcement process, do not arbitrarily seize the funds of legitimate business operators, even if the relevant evidence, it is recommended that only suspected stolen money, do not continue to freeze merchants’ accounts.
The letter also warned that Yiwu Public Security is willing to cooperate with the law enforcement activities of local public security, but does not support “excessive law enforcement, selective law enforcement”, and will be held accountable for “situations with fault”.
The land media reported that Yiwu merchants’ accounts were frozen by foreign public security incidents, which have been occurring intensively over the past year. There are hundreds of foreign trade merchants in the online WeChat group to discuss solutions, they call each other “frozen friends.
The report said that foreign trade merchant accounts are frozen for a variety of reasons, they receive foreign trade payments allegedly involved in Internet gambling, underground money, fraud groups money laundering, etc. Most accounts are frozen for several months, the final result is often the amount of money involved in the case was the court of the place of detention, only a very small number of applications can be thawed successfully. Yiwu is only a county-level city, the right to speak is not high, for similar cases, Yiwu official and foreign government “communication” often ends in vain.
Some Yiwu merchants said that business only sell goods to collect money, as to whether the money received from gambling accounts or fraudulent gangs, merchants simply can not tell, so question the official direct confiscation of their payments unreasonable.
The land media reported that many foreign trade merchants because of financial pressure, it is difficult to dominate the way to collect money from foreign merchants, and because foreign merchants to avoid taxes only in the customs declaration part of the payment, as well as third world countries merchants by the United States sanctions and other factors, many payments can only be made through a third party.
In fact, the above situation has been going on for many years, the Chinese Communist Party officials have been indifferent, only in the last one or two years began to high-density “targeted enforcement”. Analysts say that this is related to the financial constraints of the governments around the Communist Party and the “looting” of private wealth.
As early as September last year, the problem of foreign trade merchants’ accounts being frozen on a large scale has already attracted public attention. According to the information revealed by a large number of netizens, a large number of foreign trade accounts were frozen in Yiwu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Quanzhou and other more developed foreign trade areas, and most of them were done by the public security authorities in other places, including Henan Public Security, Lhasa Public Security, Hunan Public Security, Inner Mongolia Public Security, Chongqing Public Security, Lanzhou Public Security, Yunnan Public Security, Xinjiang Public Security and so on.
These accounts were frozen in different situations, some were frozen for a few days, some for nearly a year; some were directly deducted, some were forced to pay 15% of the frozen amount to unfreeze the funds, some were required to pay administrative penalties, etc. Some accounts have even been frozen as many as seven times by the public security of different regions.
In addition to freezing foreign foreign trade merchants, local governments also demand “ransom” from foreign enterprises by way of “off-site filing”.
In October last year, a recording of a police station chief in Cili County, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province, demanding tens of millions of RMB in bribes from Wuhan Yuancheng Gongchuang Technology Co. The media subsequently disclosed that Cili County had opened a case to investigate Wuhan Yuancheng’s “illegal operation” without having any jurisdiction at all and, despite the obstruction of Wuhan’s public security authorities, arrested the company’s boss across the border and then repeatedly demanded “ransom” from the company. The outside world questions that a police station chief does not have such power and that the real reason is “cross-border robbery” by the local government.
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