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Police smash snakehead syndicate

A people-smuggling ring which used fake documents to whisk more than 140 people out of the country for up to 100,000 yuan per person has been smashed in Shanghai, officials said yesterday.

After being tipped off last May, police recently rounded up the seven members of the gang which began operating out of a Shanghai office building in 2000, Xinhua said.

The group used false passports and other fake documents to enable the 144 people to leave for overseas. The Xinhua report did not say where they went. The gang earned more than 7 million yuan from the scheme.

Police arrested one of the ringleaders, Chen Yong, in November last year. Other members of the gang, who hailed from the eastern province of Jiangsu and the western province of Sichuan, were identified as Zeng Lushan, Lin Juzhong, Wang Juanjuan, Li Yong, Wang Jinyu and Yao Jinpu.

The suspects allegedly set up firms in Shanghai, Nanjing city and other parts of Jiangsu province which sold people false documents that allowed them to apply for business visas. They were charged from 40,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan each, the report said.

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