The Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Public Security jointly announced the third batch of typical cases of forging and selling certificates of state organs.

CCTV News:Since September 2021, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Public Security have jointly launched a nationwide special campaign to crack down on the manufacture and sale of counterfeit government websites with fake safety production certificates. They have smashed a number of fake dens with fake certificates, punished a number of technical gangs with fake government websites, and investigated and dealt with a number of fake people and enterprises, which effectively curbed the harm of fake certificates, safeguarded the normal safety production order and the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and employees, and announced two batches of typical cases. Recently, Gansu, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Fujian and other places have successfully cracked a number of typical cases of forging and selling certificates of state organs, which are hereby announced.

Case 1: Jiuquan City, Gansu Province destroyed a criminal gang that forged and sold fake certificates, arrested 20 suspects and seized more than 11,000 fake certificates.

By reporting clues, the public security department of Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, destroyed a criminal gang that illegally used information networks and forged the seals of state organs’ certificates. Law enforcement officers have successively arrested 20 criminal suspects such as Chen, seized 3 sets of tools for making certificates and seals, seized 41 electronic devices for committing crimes, 14 steel stamps, 15 atomic stamps, more than 2,000 stamps and 3,660 forged documents (electrician operation certificate, safety skill grade certificate, professional qualification certificate, safety production knowledge and management ability assessment certificate), and seized counterfeit countries.

After review, since February 2019, the criminal suspect Chen Moumou has been linked with more than 20 people, including Li and Yu, to counterfeit and produce various types of operation certificates, licenses and qualification certificates in the field of safety production and sell them all over the country. At the same time, in order to improve the authenticity of the fake certificate, Chen specially contacted Lu, who started a network technology company, to set up six fake government websites, such as "China Special Equipment Operators Information Examination and Query Center", to provide "online verification" services for the successful fake certificate. The number of fake certificates produced by the gang is as high as 11,400, which are sold to more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, and the social harm is very serious.

Case 2: Chongqing destroyed a criminal gang that forged and sold false certificates, arrested 72 suspects and seized more than 50,000 pieces of false certificate information.

According to the clues found on the Internet, the Netan Corps of Chongqing Public Security Bureau destroyed a criminal gang that set up fake websites of government departments, forged and bought and sold certificates of state organs. The police of the task force traveled to more than ten provinces and cities such as Guangdong, Hubei, Guizhou, Shandong, Hunan, Hebei and Zhejiang, arrested 72 criminal suspects, smashed 2 counterfeit dens, seized 1 die for making steel seals, 5 printers for making certificates, 207 self-made seals, 1,300 fake special qualification certificates in Yu Ben, shut down 33 fake government websites, and obtained more than 50,000 pieces of information on personnel handling fake certificates.

After examination, the criminal suspect Rong Moumou took advantage of the loopholes such as the low education experience of the accreditation personnel and insufficient ability to identify fake websites, hired a technical team, used the name of the government to build a fake website with the same interface as the government website, and copied various government official documents such as red-headed documents and approval forms, which brought great difficulties to those who needed accreditation. The gang also formed a huge gray-black industrial chain according to the division of labor mode of recruiting personnel, inputting information and manufacturing and selling false certificates. At the same time, in order to increase the authenticity of fake websites, criminal gangs not only use Internet communication groups to distribute information and register WeChat WeChat official account for publicity, but also specially invite people to improve Baidu’s ranking by buying traffic and hot search, gain attention and standardize packaging, so as to improve people’s trust in their fake websites and achieve the ultimate goal of making and selling fake certificates for huge profits.

Case 3: Huai ‘an City, Jiangsu Province cracked a case of forging and selling false certificates, arrested 6 suspects and seized more than 8,000 pieces of false certificate information.

Based on a clue to forge the qualification certificates of relevant national industries, Netan detachment of Huai ‘an Public Security Bureau of Jiangsu Province set up a task force together with Lianshui Public Security Bureau. After careful investigation, it successively went to Jiangsu, Hunan, Shandong, Jiangxi and other places to arrest 6 criminal suspects such as manufacturing and selling fake certificates, building and maintaining fake websites, destroying a den where fake certificates were made, detaining 2 certificate-making printers, more than 10 mobile phones and computers involved, shutting down 9 fake websites, and successfully destroying one to build a counterfeit emergency management department.

After examination, the criminal gang headed by the criminal suspect Sun Moumou published and promoted the production and sale of false certificates such as special operation certificates through the Internet communication group, and made false certificates for others to make profits. In order to improve the authenticity of the fake certificates, the gang rented overseas servers to build counterfeit government websites such as "the information inquiry platform for the operation certificate of special industries of the Ministry of Emergency Management and the assessment of safety production knowledge and management ability" and "the government service platform of the State Administration of Market Supervision", and provided "official" inquiry and verification for the fake certificates it produced, and produced more than 8,000 pieces of fake certificate information, involving more than 10 million yuan.

Case 4: Fujian Province cracked a case of forging and selling false certificates, arrested 2 suspects and seized more than 9,000 pieces of false certificate information.

According to the clues notified by the Ministry of Public Security, the public security organs in Fujian Province successfully smashed a den that made fake government websites and arrested suspects Fan Moumou and Fu Moumou on the spot. One computer and 17 mobile phones were seized, and 9 fake websites, 3 cloud servers, 30 WeChat accounts, and 300 forged safety production certificates were seized. A total of 9780 pieces of information about people who bought fake certificates were sorted out. At present, the criminal suspects Fan Moumou and Fu Moumou have been criminally detained according to law on suspicion of forging or altering the documents of state organs and helping information network criminal activities, and the case is under further investigation.

After review, since 2020, the criminal suspect Fu Moumou has hired Fan Moumou to register and purchase the domain name and cloud server, and build a fake "special operation certificate and qualified information inquiry platform for safety production knowledge and management ability assessment" website, for those who purchase fake certificates to inquire about the verification information of fake certificates. In order to avoid supervision, the criminal gang set up a website server outside the country, and built a related database to verify the fake certificate information produced and sold. The fake website is extremely similar to that in official website, which is extremely confusing. By the time of the incident, the criminal gang had sold nearly 10,000 fake safety production certificates, laying a major safety hazard for social governance and safety production.