Yao Zhihong, nicknamed "Little Hongbao", is the leader of the underworld. Since the 1990s, the criminal gangs headed by him have been rampant in Shaoyang City for more than 10 years, amassing black money, killing people, and seriously endangering social stability and public security.
On the morning of December 3, 2003, the verdict of Yao Zhihong’s criminal gang case in Shaoyang, Hunan was publicly pronounced at the Shaoyang Intermediate People’s Court. Among the 60 defendants, four, including Yao Zhihong and He Jianbiao, were sentenced to death in accordance with the law in the first instance. The other 56 gang members were sentenced to life imprisonment, fixed-term imprisonment or suspended sentences.
Yao Zhihong was originally a worker at an organic chemical factory in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. After taking a leave of absence without pay in 1985, he ran small restaurants and various small businesses. In the process of operating pawns and small-scale lending, he successively met He Jianbiao, Li Heping, Zuo Jinmin, Tang Jun and others, and gradually formed a criminal underworld group headed by him.
Since 1994, Yao Zhihong gradually increased the scale of loan sharking, and led He Jianbiao, Li Heping and others to obtain huge profits through loan sharking, and then began to get involved in real estate operations.
In October 1996, Yao contracted Shaoyang City at a low price with the help of Li Yong, then deputy director of the "Two Anti-Anti-Reliance" Bureau of the Shaoyang Municipal People's Procuratorate, and Tan Yaxiong, then deputy director of the Shaoyang Municipal Economic Commission. Jinhai Sauna and Massage Center invested by the water company.
Yao Zhihong used the Jinhai Sauna Center as his base to organize activities such as prostitution and prostitution. By paying bribes and providing free sexual services, he formed a huge "relationship network" within Shaoyang City.
In December 1997, Yao Zhihong obtained the qualification of member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC Daxiang District in Shaoyang City and became a local person with status and status.
In just a few years, Yao Zhihong’s underworld organization has been involved in illegal businesses such as pornography, loan sharking, and gambling, and has carried out a series of criminal activities such as organizing prostitution, fraud, illegal possession of firearms, extortion, intentional injury, and gambling. , killing 2 people, seriously injuring 6 people, and slightly injuring 15 people. There are many crimes.
Those who do too much injustice will surely die. During the "strike hard" rectification struggle, local people reported this gang to the province, city and central government in various ways, which attracted the attention of the Ministry of Public Security, the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, and the Shaoyang Municipal Party Committee.
In early 2002, the Provincial Public Security Department set up a special task force to conduct secret investigations. On the evening of June 4 of the same year, the task force obtained important information: at noon on June 6, Yao Zhihong would hold a first-year banquet for his son at the Budweiser Hotel in Shaoyang City. After analysis, most of the members of Yao Zhihong's gang involved in gangs will go to the banquet.
At 12:58 noon on June 6, 2002, more than 200 combatants took three trucks and went straight to the Budweiser Hotel. With lightning speed, they killed Yao Zhihong and his gang. A total of 35 gang members were arrested on the spot, and 47 party and government cadres who attended the banquet were identified.
On the morning of December 3, 2003, the Intermediate People's Court of Shaoyang City, Hunan Province publicly pronounced the first-instance verdict on 60 defendants of the "Xiaohongbao" criminal gang that has attracted much public attention.
The underworld leader Yao Zhihong, nicknamed "Little Hongbao", and key members He Jianbiao, Li Zhibing, and Zhou Limin were sentenced to death. The other 56 gang members were sentenced to life imprisonment, fixed-term imprisonment or suspended sentences.
At this point, the "Little Hongbao" underworld gang that made the people of Shaoyang become jealous has been completely destroyed. However, they disregarded the laws of the country, acted arbitrarily, and committed countless crimes that are too numerous to describe and are alarming.