Gangs trading in fear and farm produce
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SHANGHAI police yesterday announced that they had begun investigating alleged gang crimes in the city’s largest farm produce wholesale market after Shanghai TV reported on Monday that vendors at the market were routinely threatened and intimidated.
Police said they began investigating the gang, led by a seafood trader in the market surnamed Zhou, in May and the investigation is going on.
Also in May, a Shanghai TV reporter went undercover and started selling ice cubes at the central wholesale farm produce market in Beicai, the Pudong New Area.
The reporter claims that no one bought his ice even though he offered very attractive prices. He was told by other traders that the entire produce market was controlled by a person from Shouxian County, Anhui Province, and no one dared to confront him.
The reporter was also charged additional “parking fees,” told that his tires would be slashed if he refused to pay and was followed by a van soon after he started business there.
Market mangers told the reporter that people often went to their office and demanded to be allowed to monopolize business there.
Gao Wei, the chairman of the market management conpany, has been stalked and threatened.
He told Shanghai TV that some traders had left the market in the face of the intimidation and the market was losing customers.
Last week, Shanghai government decided to step up its war against gangs. Since January, Shanghai police have caught 600 suspects in 174 cases involving over 90 gangs.
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