Gaoping incident.

10 6 16 At 5 o'clock in the morning, a large number of police suddenly poured into the warehouse area of Madrid International Trade City, Spain, and first rushed into 100 Chinese homes.

"See take money. If the person is not there, use the chainsaw tool to pry it in. " Mr. Xu, a businessman from China who was present at that time, recalled that he later learned from the local news that more than 500 policemen and 50 customs inspectors were used in this regard.

The police set up surveillance at some intersections in the warehouse area, and searched passers-by who were mainly local China expatriates, aiming at "checking illegal immigrants". Some China citizens without identity cards or residence permits were taken away.

At about 9: 30 in the morning, the action codenamed "Emperor" officially began. Madrid, Barcelona, Basque Country, Castilla, Leó n and Malaga started at the same time. The local police and armed police blocked several key target warehouse areas together and controlled the personnel in the area. For some Chinese shops that have not yet opened, chainsaws and hammers are used to destroy the doors and windows of the shops and forcibly enter the search.

Then, the Chinese shops in the target warehouse were seized on a large scale and the Chinese were arrested on a large scale. In the morning, the police took away hundreds of China people in the warehouse area of the International Trade City.

The operation lasted for three days, two of which were to arrest and collect criminal evidence. The action is mainly aimed at "Chinese organized crime". According to police sources, there are some large-scale criminal organizations in the Chinese warehouse area of Madrid, engaged in money laundering, illegal gambling, illegal immigration, drug smuggling and bribing local officials.

Officials of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior subsequently announced that they had smashed a "criminal gang headed by Chinese". Gao Ping, a well-known Chinese businessman in Qingtian, Zhejiang Province and a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Political Consultative Conference, was accused of being the "gangster boss".

Gao Ping was taken away by the police in his villa. According to local media reports, at that time, the police broke into the house, and everyone in the villa, regardless of sex, age and age, first got into police equipment and squatted on the ground, and then checked the head photos one by one to arrest people.

Now Gao Ping is the chairman of Spain International Trade City Group, the largest trading enterprise in Madrid, and concurrently the chairman of Iberia (Hangzhou) Electronics Co., Ltd., and his social identity also includes the publisher of Art and Investment magazine, the chairman of the presidium of the Spanish Chinese Enterprise Federation, and the vice chairman of the Zhejiang Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

According to Chinese businessmen close to Gao Ping, Gao Ping is an influential celebrity in the European Chinese business circle. He runs hundreds of supermarket chains in Spain and has opened international trade cities in Spain and Italy. As an entrepreneur who loves art and sports, he opened an art gallery and established an art fund in Beijing. He also sponsored a famous Spanish football team for several years.

In 2007, when King Carlos I of Spain visited China, he was invited as a representative of Chinese businessmen in that country. In 2008, he was elected as a member of Zhejiang CPPCC. 20 1 1 gaoping was awarded the "Outstanding Contribution Award for Cultural Exchange between China and the West" by the Spanish government and the Queen Sofia Art Museum. On the official website of Zhejiang Overseas Chinese Federation, Gao Ping ranked 19 among 69 "presidents' groups".

In this case, Gao Ping and others are suspected of organizing crime, smuggling, money laundering, tax evasion, intimidation, violation of civil rights, and trafficking in arms, drugs and organizing prostitution. And all the arrested China people, 13, have never missed a single charge. The Spanish authorities accused the group of smuggling goods from China, then washing the money back to China, and laundering 654.38+02 billion euros in China in four years.

There are even minors on the arrest list, including Gao Ping's two sons, aged 17 and 13 respectively.

Spanish anti-corruption prosecutor Salinas called it "a money laundering criminal organization led by China people" and pointed out the path of the group's "money laundering, smuggling and other crimes". For example, goods from China were smuggled into Spain to evade customs duties by bribing officials and forging documents. Smuggled goods are sold in Spanish Chinese shops, and then the illegal gains are hidden in bags and sent back to China by car or train, or hidden in containers and sent back to China by sea. Some black money is laundered in tax havens through Spanish and Israeli political parties.

He said that the police have been investigating the case for two years. "At first, people suspected that Fenla Blardat, the largest wholesale point of China commodities in Europe, was used by criminals to smuggle goods from China to evade taxes. Later, it was discovered that the group was also involved in criminal activities such as money laundering, extortion and pornography. "

A video of the arrest scene disclosed by the local Spanish media said that the Spanish police found more than 6 million euros in cash in the safe of Madrid International Trade City.