Chongqing police dismantled an evil organization suspected of "public opinion blackmail" and uncovered 25 criminal cases

China News Service, Chongqing, October 10 (Reporter Liu Xianglin) The reporter learned from the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau on the 10th that the Nan'an District Branch of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau conducted an in-depth investigation into the extortion case of a financial company and discovered and eliminated an evil organization that used publishing false articles and creating negative public opinion to carry out extortion against financial institutions and third-party service companies nationwide.

After investigation, the organization used the Internet to widely obtain "revealing" negative information, and published a large number of untrue, exaggerated, and false negative articles on the Internet, and organized forwarding, commenting, and hyping, wantonly disrupting public awareness and misleading public opinion, and thus gaining the attention of the majority of netizens, directly causing the victimized companies and individuals to form psychological panic, forcing relevant companies and individuals to actively seek to delete posts, and ultimately achieve the purpose of "paid post deletion" to obtain post deletion fees and service fees.

The police said that the organization's criminal behavior seriously violated the normal development of the financial industry, seriously disrupted the normal economic and social life order, and caused a relatively bad social impact.

At present, 8 suspects have been arrested in this case, 25 criminal cases have been solved, and 25 financial institutions and service companies have been verified as victims, with the amount involved in the case being approximately 1.375 million yuan. The case is under further investigation.