Source: People’s Daily
Beijing, April 11 (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) The reporter learned from the national video conference on cracking down on new types of illegal and criminal telecommunication networks: The department has paid close attention to various measures of prevention and control and the implementation of the responsibilities of the main body of industry supervision, and has achieved remarkable results in promoting the crackdown on illegal and criminal telecommunication network fraud. Under the strong crackdown and high pressure, the rising trend of telecommunications and network fraud cases has been effectively curbed. Over the past year, the number of cases filed by public security organs has dropped by 18.7% year-on-year, and has maintained a year-on-year decline for nine consecutive months since June last year.
It is understood that since April last year, the public security organs across the country have carried out in-depth special actions such as “Yunjian-2021” to crack down on the illegal crimes of telecommunication and network fraud. Since then, 634,000 criminal suspects have been arrested, a year-on-year increase of 28.5% and 76.6% respectively.
Party committees and governments at all levels have strengthened their territorial responsibilities, and further promoted education and persuasion to return. Significant progress has been made in remediation. Industry supervision and management have played an important role. The special rectification of the information network industry has been incorporated into the normalized fight against gangsters and evil. The “Card Breaking Action 2.0” has been upgraded and launched to clean up fraudulent phone cards and industry cards. The outstanding problems of fraud in the industry have effectively plugged a number of regulatory loopholes and squeezed the space for criminal activities. Adhere to the system concept, strengthen top-level design, and speed up the promotion of special legislative work. The draft anti-telecommunications network fraud law has passed the preliminary review of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and multiple departments have jointly issued relevant legal guidance to increase the punishment of telecommunications network fraud and related crimes. The whole chain and all-round crackdown and punishment of telecommunications network fraud and crimes have provided strong support. “People’s Daily” (April 12, 2022 07 edition)