According to CCTV news, recently, Shandong Qingdao police detected a case of illegal production and sale of special equipment for eavesdropping and candid cameras, knocked down three dens and seized more than 500 pieces of such equipment.
After investigation, in just over three months, the criminal gang produced more than 3,000 pieces of special equipment for eavesdropping and photo-bugging to be sold around the region.
Bugging equipment disguises as a mobile power supply.
In June this year, Qingdao Police in the network patrol found an online shop in the sale of a variety of products with a camera, audio and video recording, suspected of illegal sales of eavesdropping and candid camera special equipment. By analyzing the sales data of this e-commerce company, the police were able to find local people in Qingdao who had purchased the equipment through this e-commerce company, and then seized the relevant equipment.
The eavesdropping equipment seized by the police is a common mobile power supply from the outside, with the logo of the charging machine, and marked with the voltage and capacity.
The police introduced that after opening this kind of mobile power supply, the upper end has a one-direction translucent glass, remove this glass, it can see the camera inside, which also has the corresponding recording equipment, as well as integrated circuit boards, and memory cards.
After combing through the data, the police found that in Qingdao, 16 people bought such equipment. The police said that the people who bought these devices mainly use the equipment for secretly filming personal privacy and stealing business secrets.
Design, production and sales of each division of labor.
According to the buyer's purchase order, the police found that these devices are issued from an industrial park in Bao'an District, Shenzhen. Through technical means and visits, the police locked the production and assembly of such equipment, a factory, to focus on arrest.
This is a company specializing in substitute processing and assembly of electronic equipment, the owner surnamed Zeng, admitted that the eavesdropping and camera equipment disguised as mobile power supply is a customer surnamed Yang entrusted them with the production of. Zeng also knew that this was illegal, but to earn more than 3 yuan per piece of work, he still took the business.
Upon enquiry, Zeng said the customer Yang gave him drawings and parts, by them to assemble and machine, Yang for sale. Subsequently, the police in Shenzhen Longgang express point and seized more than three hundred same equipment.
Each disguised as a mobile power supply of the cost of filming equipment is about 40 yuan, Yang will sell each piece for 600 yuan to 1200 yuan, with profits as high as 15 to 30 times, just more than 3 months to profit more than 200 million yuan.
At present, Yang, Zeng and other seven suspects have been taken by the police criminal compulsory measures, the case is still investigating.
Illegal production and sale of special equipment for eavesdropping and candid cameras can be sentenced to more than three years and less than seven years of imprisonment.
Police said that in recent years, some criminals will be mobile phones, car keys, glasses and even watches, buttons disguised as camera equipment sold away from the privacy of others to secretly record secret filming, a serious violation of the rights and interests of citizens and personal safety.
Illegal production and sale of special equipment for eavesdropping and candid camera behavior, violation of Article 283 of the Criminal Law, the seriousness of the circumstances, punishable by three years or more than seven years of imprisonment.
The police said, in accordance with the law to crack down on the illegal production and sale of eavesdropping and candid camera equipment at the same time, but also to remind the general public to be more vigilant, "Do not buy such equipment on the one hand; on the other hand, once found to be eavesdropping and taking photographs secretly, should be reported to the police in a timely manner."
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