Recent decade has
witnessed the rapid spread of telecom &online fraud globally, which seriously
infringes on people’s legitimate rights &interests, becoming a prominent
crime and a public hazard. To address this problem, the Chinese police have been
committed to intensifying their efforts in the combat and control of such
crimes, and strengthening international law enforcement cooperation, which
enabled them to accumulate successful experience, build up best practices and
set examples for their counterparts around the world.
Upholding the
people-centered principle, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government
attach great importance to countering telecom & online fraud. Equal
importance has been given to both combat and control, an efficient multi-department
collaborative working mechanism has been established, and Anti Telecom & Online
Fraud Law has been formulated and enacted, which provides a strong legal foundation.
Targeting the characteristics of such crimes, the Chinese police has conducted specialized
study and research, set up specialized task forces, initiated specialized
investigation against major cases and utilized specialized techniques. The
Chinese police have synchronized the efforts both inside and outside, and launched
a series of campaigns and operations, effectively curbing the high momentum of
these crimes, retrieving a large number of economic losses, and winning wide recognition
from the public and the international community. During the international law
enforcement engagements, the Chinese police have frequently received requests
from its counterparts to share the experience and good practices in this field.
Telecom &
Online Fraud is a typical transnational organized crime. Fraud dens are often
located across countries and regions, targeting at the vulnerable individuals
and groups regardless of their nationalities. The Chinese police, through
international law enforcement cooperation, has joined hands with international
counterparts to carry out operations and achieved significant results. Great
Wall Operation, jointly launched with the Spanish police in 2019, has
become a successful example of transnational law enforcement cooperation. From
March to June this year, China, together with 76 member states, jointly
participated in the anti-fraud Operation First Light initiated by INTERPOL,
which destroyed 1770 fraud dens in many countries, arrested over 2000 suspects
and intercepted more than US $50 million in illicit funds. It is also found
that there are some Chinese citizens involved in fraud activities abroad, and
the majority of them were tempted by promise of high payments, cheated and
coerced to smuggle abroad, some of them were kidnapped and detained illegally,
and a few of them were even beaten and abused to death in the criminal dens. The
police, together with relevant departments, has actively carried out rescue and
education, and encourage and assist them to return home through international
law enforcement cooperation, and made every effort to provide assistance and
employment. The immigration authorities, in accordance with the provisions of the
Exit and Entry Administration Law, have taken necessary measures such as
restricting the exit of persons engaged in telecom & online fraud.
According to a
relevant officer with the Ministry of Public Security, the criminality of telecom & online fraud
is featured with its specialization, industrialization and being increasingly
organized and transnational, amid the rapid development of global digitalization.
As an emerging new-type crime, it is a very difficult problem for governments
of various countries to tackle and control, and has become one of the major
challenges facing the police forces across the world. Joining hands in
combating this newly developed fraud is the shared responsibility of the police
of all countries and also the unanimous consensus of the international
community. The public security agencies across China are determined to enforce
earnestly the Law of Anti-telecom & Online Fraud through strengthened
cooperation with the international counterparts and reinforced domestic efforts
on fighting the crime, so as to prevent the crime from further spreading and to
bring the fraudsters at large to justice.