Brothers' reign of torture and terror
By Wang Xiang |
June 5, 2010, Saturday
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POLICE in south China's Guangzhou City have revealed details of how they broke up a heavily armed gang who controlled the city's criminal underworld for more than a decade.
Guangzhou police unsealed the files on the mafia-like gangs started by brothers Wu Zhijian and Wu Zhiwei, Guangzhou Daily reported yesterday. They were involved in at least four murder cases and 17 other crimes.
The police seized 19 members of the Wu brothers' gang last summer. A search found two submachine guns, four pistols, and four shotguns, along with 390 bullets, nine grenades, 384 detonators and 18 kilograms of dynamite in the gang's possession.
Local prosecutors have charged the gang with running mafia-like operations and handed the case to the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court.
The report said the gang specialized in drug dealing. Wu Zhijian had two drug factories in Guangzhou and he was said to have earned millions of yuan from the drug business.
When the Wu brothers decided to get rid of someone in their organization, they would force them to swallow a lethal dose of crystal meth and dispose of their body. They did that at least once in October 2008 to a gang member, Chen Weibing, who was suspected of stealing drugs from the brothers, according to the files.
Police said the gang was the cruelest and best organized in Guangzhou.
In 2007, after the Guangzhou government began to crack down on drug dealers, Wu Zhijian and Wu Zhiwei found it hard to maintain their profits and they became more desperate to make money, and more violent.
Another member of the gang, Han Lei, was tortured to death in December 2007 after the Wu brothers suspected him of stealing money from them.
Officers on the case said they had never seen such a horrible death. Han's skin and flesh had been burned off.
With the net closing in on the Wu brothers, they tried to make their escape.
But on their way, they got into a fight in a traffic accident.
To their misfortune, the clash was with two undercover police officers. Police netted all 19 key gang members following their confessions soon after, the report said.
Guangzhou police unsealed the files on the mafia-like gangs started by brothers Wu Zhijian and Wu Zhiwei, Guangzhou Daily reported yesterday. They were involved in at least four murder cases and 17 other crimes.
The police seized 19 members of the Wu brothers' gang last summer. A search found two submachine guns, four pistols, and four shotguns, along with 390 bullets, nine grenades, 384 detonators and 18 kilograms of dynamite in the gang's possession.
Local prosecutors have charged the gang with running mafia-like operations and handed the case to the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court.
The report said the gang specialized in drug dealing. Wu Zhijian had two drug factories in Guangzhou and he was said to have earned millions of yuan from the drug business.
When the Wu brothers decided to get rid of someone in their organization, they would force them to swallow a lethal dose of crystal meth and dispose of their body. They did that at least once in October 2008 to a gang member, Chen Weibing, who was suspected of stealing drugs from the brothers, according to the files.
Police said the gang was the cruelest and best organized in Guangzhou.
In 2007, after the Guangzhou government began to crack down on drug dealers, Wu Zhijian and Wu Zhiwei found it hard to maintain their profits and they became more desperate to make money, and more violent.
Another member of the gang, Han Lei, was tortured to death in December 2007 after the Wu brothers suspected him of stealing money from them.
Officers on the case said they had never seen such a horrible death. Han's skin and flesh had been burned off.
With the net closing in on the Wu brothers, they tried to make their escape.
But on their way, they got into a fight in a traffic accident.
To their misfortune, the clash was with two undercover police officers. Police netted all 19 key gang members following their confessions soon after, the report said.
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