Le Mou, a deputy departmental official in Hubei who retired early, led a huge fake rice seed case across four provinces, and nearly 10,000 farmers in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Anhui provinces were affected.
Why do fake seeds appear?According to industry insiders, making fake seeds is a lucrative business, with profit margins as high as 200% to 400%, and it usually takes 8 to 10 years to cultivate a stable variety.This makes some lawbreakers not hesitate to take risks.
Recently, the police in Changde traveled to many places in four provinces across the country. It took nearly a year and covered more than 30,000 kilometers.case, the four main suspects involved in the case, Lemou, Hu Mouhua, Jin Mou, and Zhang Mou, were all arrested and brought to justice.
It is reported that the case caused nearly 10,000 farmers in four provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Anhui to be affected, and the direct economic loss was as high as more than 30 million yuan.The behind-the-scenes boss of the case was actually a former deputy department-level official in Hubei.
More than 300 acres of rice grains failed
The autumnal equinox in 2017 has just passed, and it is the time for the rice harvest.However, more than 40 farmers in Shimeitang Town, Dingcheng District, Changde are worried about more than 300 mu of rice.Because of problems such as dead rice, few or no ears, they failed to harvest and lost more than 300,000 yuan.It is estimated that there is a problem with the seeds.Some villagers talked about it, and approached Ding, a local seed dealer, for an explanation.
It was also the first time for Ding to encounter such a situation. This batch of "Lu Liangyou 17rs" seeds was purchased in bulk from Zhang, the sales manager of Wuhan Hongshuo Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., with a total of more than 900 kilograms of hybrid rice..Ding was also surprised that such a thing happened, so he quickly reported to the Dingcheng District Agriculture Bureau with several planter representatives that the batch of rice seeds might be counterfeit and shoddy.
On January 23, 2018, the appraisal by the agricultural department confirmed that the 900 kilograms of Luliangyou 17 hybrid rice species purchased by Ding in 2017 were counterfeit and shoddy seeds, and the assessed loss was identified as 220,000 yuan.
In February 2018, the Dingcheng Agricultural Bureau handed over the clue to the crime to the Dingcheng District Public Security Bureau for investigation.Due to the seriousness of the case and the wide area involved, the police formed the 2middot;08 special case team to investigate the case with all its strength.On March 30 this year, the case was listed as a case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security.
The legal person of the seed company is actually a puppet
The police of the task force decided to start the investigation from Hu Mouhua, the legal representative of the company.On March 20, 2018, the police first arrested Hu Mouhua who was doing farm work on a farm in Jingzhou, Hubei.He was wearing a straw hat, his trousers were rolled up, and there was mud on his calf.Hu Mouhua, who is only 44 years old, does not look like the legal representative of this company.
After the surprise interrogation of Hu Mouhua, the special police found that the actual controller behind Wuhan Hongshuo Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. was Le Mou (male, 61 years old, from Wuchang, Hubei), and Hu Mouhua was just a puppet.In 2016, Le registered the company in Wuhan, Hubei Province under the name of Hu Mouhua, and paid him thousands of yuan a month, promising to reimburse daily expenses and other benefits, and acted as the legal person of the company, usually responsible for managing warehouses andShip.
According to the investigation, since 2016, without obtaining a seed business license, Lemou purchased various unlabeled bulk seeds from a certain place, and transported them to the warehouse leased by the Hubei company through a logistics company for storage.
Le arranged for Hu Mouhua, the legal representative of the company, to be responsible for printing the seed packaging bags marked with Hongshuo Company, Fuyue Company, and Tianxia Agricultural Company, and then Jin was responsible for organizing workers in the warehouse to pack the purchased fake seeds into Luliangyou17. Hybrid rice varieties such as Jinyou 402 and Zhuliangyou 268 are sold to markets in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui.
The boss is actually a former deputy department-level cadre
In May 2018, Le, who was about to flee, was arrested by the police in a community in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and seized more than 70 privately carved fake company seals at the company's office site, and sold a large number of fake seed contracts and accounts.
According to Le Mou, he was originally a deputy department-level cadre of a certain department in Hubei Province. After retiring early, he went into business in 2000 and founded Hubei Fuyue Seed (Group) Co., Ltd. to engage in seed management and sales.In 2014, due to poor management, the loss was as high as 200 million yuan.
In order to make up for the gap, at the end of 2015, Lemou called Hu Mouhua, Jin Mou, Zhang Mou and others from the original group company, under the banner of the China Rice Research Institute, registered in the name of Hu Mouhua in Wuhan, Hubei and other places.Dozens of shell seed companies, such as Hongshuo Company, Fuyue Company, and Tianxia Agricultural Company, falsified their business licenses and company seals.
After that, he bought fake and shoddy hybrid rice in bulk at low prices many times from a certain place in Anhui., The affected area of rice is about 20,000 mu, directly causing economic losses of more than 30 million yuan.
At present, the criminal facts of the suspects Le, Hu, Jin, and Zhang involved in the case have been investigated by the public security organs and transferred to prosecution according to law.
The profit from selling fake seeds is 200%~400%
According to the staff of a breeding company in Hunan, hybrid rice is widely planted in Hunan, and the seed variety is generally changed every three years.After 3 years of continuous planting of the same variety, the resistance will decrease, resulting in a decrease in yield, and in severe cases, the harvest will fail.Taking rice as an example, it generally takes 8 to 10 years for the company's scientific researchers to get the breeding materials and breed a stable variety.And the time left for them to make a profit is at most three years.
It takes a long time to breed a variety, and it takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, but it is very easy for others to steal it.For example, conventional rice, as long as you get other people's varieties, you can self-propagate.A person in charge of a seed industry company said that when criminals make fake seeds, the production cost is often only about half of that of real seeds, and the profit is as high as 200%-400%.
Due to the low cost of counterfeiting and huge profits, some lawbreakers are willing to take risks.The person in charge of the above-mentioned company said that in recent years, both the state and enterprises have stepped up crackdowns.
