According to the indictment of the procuratorate, the court ascertained after trial and made the first-instance judgment: the defendant Ma Cunpan was guilty of organizing and leading a mafia-style criminal organization, running an illegal casino, intentional injury, robbery, illegal trading of firearms, and taking reprisals against witnesses. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison with several crimes combined, and fined 105,000 yuan. Other members of the gang also received guilty verdicts respectively.
In early 2010, for their own development, the gang led by Ma Cunpan used various means to infiltrate the grassroots party organizations in rural areas. By using violence, intimidation, threats, and bribery with money, they caused some grassroots cadres to provide convenience for the criminal activities of the mafia. After village cadre Li Mou reported the gambling behavior of the gang which led to some members being caught, Ma Cunpan instructed his members to break into Li's house late at night, beat him up, and threaten him with a knife to kill his entire family. Subsequently, he also ordered the gang members to give money and cigarettes to Li, forcing and enticing him to serve them.
In June last year, Kunming police successively arrested Ma Cunpan and 49 others, and seized more than 530,000 yuan of ill-gotten gains, 6 vehicles involved in the case, 11 walkie-talkies, 29 knives, 6 steel pipes, 1 imitation "Type 64" pistol, 2 steel bead guns, etc. The police found out that the head of this organized crime group was Ma Cunpan, from Dianyuan Town, Panlong District. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for kidnapping in 1998 and was released on parole in 2006 after serving his sentence. From July 2009 to June 2010, the organization led by Ma Cunpan gathered idle people from society and ran mobile casinos in the mountains and villages of Songhua Township and Dianyuan Town in Panlong District, profiting illegally through抽取头渔利 (a form of profit-taking).
On September 18th, our reporter learned from the Panlong District People's Procuratorate of Kunming City, Yunnan Province that the first-instance verdict was announced in the major organized crime case involving Ma Cunpan and 49 others in Panlong District. All seven charges brought by the prosecution, including organizing, leading, and participating in a mafia-like criminal organization, running an illegal casino, gambling, intentional injury, robbery, illegal trading of firearms, illegal possession of firearms, and taking reprisals against witnesses, were accepted by the court, and all charges were confirmed.
This case not only involves many defendants and has a significant social impact, but also the age range of the suspects is relatively large, with the youngest being 18 years old and the oldest being 53 years old.
Ma Cunpan, in order to make it convenient to enter and exit the mountains for operating a mobile casino, repeatedly instructed gang members to bribe some village cadres and forest rangers of the Yizhe Village Committee in Dianyuan Town, causing them to provide venues, protection, act as informants, and leak information under the drive of personal gain for Ma Cunpan's organized crime group.
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