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A |     生产、销售的“瘦身咖啡”竟含有国家明令禁止的“西布曲明”成分，长期服用西布曲明有副作用，甚至有中风死亡的风险。    BANGKOK -- Zhang Hongliang, a former restaurant manager in central China, took various gigs in and outside China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 pandemic.In March, a job offer to teach Chinese cooking at a restaurant led him into a cyber scam compound in Myanmar, where he was instead ordered to lure Chinese into giving up their savings for fake investment schemes via social media platforms.Zhang is one of tens of thousands of people, mostly but not all Chinese, who have become ensnared in cyber scam networks run by powerful Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia. Regional and Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown, but experts say they are failing to root out the local elites and criminal networks that are bound to keep running the schemes.When scam operations are shut down in one place they often just resurface elsewhere. The problem is an embarrassment for Beijing and is discouraging ordinary Chinese from traveling to Southeast Asia out of fear they might be duped or kidnapped and caught up in a cyber scam operation. In recent years, media reports have uncovered instances of young people being lured to places in Cambodia or Myanmar for high-paying jobs, only to be forced to work as scammers. Rescue organizations say people are regularly beaten or face physical punishments such as being forced to run laps if they don't perform well. In August, China, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar agreed to set up a joint police operations center to tackle cyber scams in the region. On Oct. 10, China’s Ministry of Public Security announced that its “Summer Operation” had successfully brought back 2,317 scam suspects from northern Myanmar to China.China calls such people suspects, though experts say most of them are victims who were forced to work for the criminals. They question how they will be treated once back in China. The schemes based in countries like Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia are run by Chinese bosses hand-in-hand with local elites. Many are based in places where China has financed big construction projects through leader Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative.Myanmar's border regions long have been a magnet for criminals — historically including drug producers and traffickers — because of lax law enforcement. Such places are generally under the control of ethnic minority armed groups, either opposed to or allied with Myanmar’s central government. Some also cooperate with organized crime gangs.“From the vantage point of the Chinese government, it’s a source of extreme embarrassment that you have so many of these Chinese criminals operating all across Southeast Asia,” said Jason Tower, an expert on transnational crime with the United States Institute of Peace.The syndicates also are known for “pig butchering” cons, where scammers entice individuals, often halfway across the world, to invest their money in bogus schemes after duping them into digital romances.The scammers divide their targets into two categories: Chinese and non-Chinese. They use scripts, images of models and influencers and translation software to trick the people they contact by phone or online into parting with their money. Victims can be anywhere in the world.The criminals have “ridden on the shoulders of the Belt and Road Initiative,” said Tower, who outlined links between the criminals and Chinese state enterprises, think tanks and government officials in a 2020 report written for the United States Institute of Peace.Zhang was working in Thailand and on a visa run to Laos when he met the man who lured him to the scam compound in Myanmar. Giving what he said was his last name, Gao, he claimed to be a broker and travel agent for Chinese living in Thailand. Zhang and his wife wanted extra money to pay for in vitro fertilization to have another child. Gao suggested he go work in Myawaddy, in eastern Myanmar’s Kayin state, teaching a local chef how to cook Chinese dishes in Gao’s new restaurant. The pay would be double what Zhang made in China.Zhang was wary. Since a 2021 coup, military-controlled Myanmar has been embroiled in civil conflict. But Gao reassured him that he wouldn’t be doing anything illegal and said the restaurant would have plenty of customers since many cyber scam businesses were operating in the area.That might have raised a red flag but it was only once he got to Myanmar that Zhang realized his predicament. He asked to go back home, saying there was a family emergency. His family helped him scrape together some 40,000 yuan ($5,472) to pay off the debt Gao claimed he owed him, and he slipped away one night, swimming across the Moei River into Thailand, where he turned himself in to Thai police, who contacted the Chinese Embassy.Zhang showed the AP copies of his deportation notice from the Thai Immigration police and a temporary ID card. He returned to China in late June and was questioned by Chinese police but not detained. He has been sharing his story on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, to alert others to the risks and says people often contact him about relatives trapped in cyber scam compounds.“We all went out with this wonderful sense of hope, but then reality slammed us in the face,” he said.In total, China has detained some 4,000 suspects and returned them back to China. The Ministry of Public Security has claimed “breakthrough results” through operations in coordination with Myanmar authorities. On Monday, they announced they had repatriated another 2,349 people. The ministry did not respond to a faxed request for comment.One 31-year old former chef who was smuggled into Myanmar’s Wa State earlier this year said he saw his company hand over four people to Chinese police with little fanfare in September. Other companies did the same, said the man, who was smuggled into Myanmar and later rescued by a non-profit organization. He declined to be named out of fear of government retribution, and The Associated Press could not independently verify his account.Overall, the enforcement actions don’t seem very comprehensive, experts say. The groups now based in Myanmar originally were located in Cambodia. When Cambodia cracked down on online gambling rings and illegal casinos in 2019, many of the groups just moved to less well policed places in Myanmar. Some were taken over by rival gangs.China's efforts to repair its image have so far not made much headway, said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science at Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University. “You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas," he said, "but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort." -—-AP researcher Wanqing Chen in Beijing and AP writers Grant Peck and Jintamas Saksornchai in Bangkok contributed to this report.。

B | 有消费者网购该“瘦身咖啡”，服用后出现了身体不适……1月10日，记者从四川甘孜州新龙县公安局获悉，新龙警方接到该线索后，历时近一年侦查，最终在省外将4名犯罪嫌疑人抓获归案，破获了这起生产、销售有毒有害食品案。警方透露，4人落网时，还有2万多袋“瘦身咖啡”已包装好，尚未出售。

C | 2024年12月，涉案4人因犯生产、销售有毒、有害食品罪，一审被法院判处有期徒刑1年4个月至2年不等。警方查获的“瘦身咖啡”网购“瘦身咖啡”引身体不适送检发现含西布曲明2023年，甘孜州新龙县有群众网购“咖咖瘦燃脂咖啡”，服用后出现身体不适症状，随即向市场监管部门反映此事。新龙县市场监督管理局将该产品送检后发现，其中含有国家明令禁止的“西布曲明”成分。

D | 临床试验显示，长期使用西布曲明可引起血压升高、心率加快，从而导致心脑血管疾病等副作用，比如感觉肢体痉挛、思维异常、癫痫发作等，甚至中风死亡。为此，早在2010年，原国家食品药品监管局便发出通知，禁止国内生产、销售和使用西布曲明制剂和原料药。2023年7月，这一线索移交新龙县公安局食药环森侦查大队后，新龙县公安局随即成立案侦专班，展开调查。经过长时间侦查发现，这是一个组织严密、层级清晰，采取商业运作模式，利用网络的虚拟性、传播性隐藏身份制售有毒有害减肥产品的犯罪组织。后在甘孜州公安局指导下，专班民警从涉案账号、快递物流单据、资金流向等信息入手，历时近一年，辗转道孚、乡城、巴塘、稻城等地，行程上万公里，最终锁定涉嫌生产销售有毒、有害食品的阎某、张某、穆某、肖某，同时获取到嫌疑人藏匿代售的“咖咖瘦燃脂咖啡”多达上万包的重要信息。夫妻俩在自家别墅里制作咖啡还有人以身试“毒”为防止嫌疑人囤积的大量有毒有害“咖咖瘦燃脂咖啡”流入市场，2024年6月，新龙警方抓捕组赶赴省外某地，准备实施抓捕。2024年6月中旬，民警先后将肖某、穆某抓获归案，并在穆某家中起获藏匿代售的“咖咖瘦燃脂咖啡”12000余袋。乘胜追击，民警在属地警方协助下，在阎某、张某自家别墅将两人抓获归案，并查获大量制作毒咖啡的机械设备和原料。其中，含有西布曲明的各类原材料多达数百公斤，已包装好的减肥咖啡制品1万余袋，每袋10克。警方查获的作案工具四人被押解至四川后，经审讯，他们对其层级之间使用暗语交流，物品交易互不见面，对制作、销售有毒有害“咖咖瘦燃脂咖啡”制品的犯罪事实供认不讳。

E | 警方调查发现，阎某、张某是一对夫妻，年逾五旬，夫妻俩身居别墅区，原本家庭殷实，但为了牟取更多非法利益，竟在明知原材料含有西布曲明成分，对身体健康有害的情况下，制作、销售减肥咖啡。肖某作为两个孩子的母亲，家里长期从事客运行业，有固定收入，但曾因销售有毒有害食品被打击处理的她仍不知悔改。穆某在某公司担任管理人员，她在明知销售产品有毒有害的情况下，为测试效果还长时间以身试“毒”，落网时年仅40岁的她已颜面浮肿，疾病缠身。四人被判处刑罚终身不得从事食品生产经营1月10日，记者了解到，2024年12月18日，新龙县人民法院公开宣判了此案。法院认为，阎某、张某在生产、销售的食品中掺入有毒、有害原料，肖某、穆某销售明知掺有有毒有害食品原料的食品，其行为触犯《中华人民共和国刑法》第一百四十四条之规定。据此，法院作出一审判决，以生产、销售有毒、有害食品罪判处阎某、张某、肖某、穆某有期徒刑1年4个月至2年不等，追缴违法所得12.6万元，并处罚金4万元至16万余元不等。同时，四人被终身禁止从事食品生产经营管理工作，也不得担任食品生产经营企业食品安全管理人员。犯罪嫌疑人指认犯罪现场警方提醒，消费者在购买减肥产品时需擦亮双眼仔细甄别，避免购买“三无产品”，切勿听信不法商家对食品功效的虚假宣传，在购买到不合格食品时应积极向相关部门举报，通过法律手段维护自身合法权益。编辑：李楠资料：文汇报特别声明：本文经上观新闻客户端的“上观号”入驻单位授权发布，仅代表该入驻单位观点，“上观新闻”仅为信息发布平台，如您认为发布内容侵犯您的相关权益，请联系删除!。

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