Zhang Ziqiang's father fled to Hong Kong empty-handed. When I arrived in Hong Kong, I had neither money nor skills. For the sake of my family's livelihood, I opened a small "herbal tea shop" in Miao Street, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, and made a living with a little knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine in my hometown.
In the forties and fifties, Yau Ma Tei was far away from the prosperous area of "land gold" and status symbol. At that time, Yau Ma Tei was very small, not far from the seaside. In some places, it was just a wasteland by the sea, with only a few low-rise buildings, which was a bit like the shanty towns later. People who live here are either poor or multi-religious, and some triad societies often merge.
Zhang Ziqiang grew up in such an external environment and a poor family economic environment. He didn't want to go to school until he finished primary school. He hangs around the "herbal tea shop" all day, playing and fighting with street children. Slowly, Zhang Ziqiang began to connect with street thugs and underworld members, and "thieves" began to sprout.
Zhang Ziqiang first worked as a helper in his father's "herbal tea shop". Later, his father saw that he didn't learn well, so he sent him to a tailor shop specializing in suits as an apprentice. In his early years, Zhang Ziqiang's father was so strict with his son's education that Zhang Ziqiang often recalled his father beating him when he entered the detention center. However, his father's kindness and fists did not lead Zhang Ziqiang to the right direction, but made him rebellious towards his father. Zhang Ziqiang said to his death that he had no feelings for his father.
Zhang Ziqiang soon began to set foot in the underworld and became a small leader, known as "a brother". Bai Yushan, who was a gangster in Guizhou, used to be his messenger, but later changed to a serious job; Zhang Ziqiang 12 years old began to enter the police station, and 16 years old went to prison for the first time. He committed numerous crimes in Hong Kong and was arrested many times, leaving a thick record in the police. As an adult, although Zhang Ziqiang got married, got married and had children, he didn't "wash his hands of it". After robbing Rolex, he started a new plot.
Rob Rolex
1February 22, 990, Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong.
At that time, in Southeast Asia and other places, wearing the famous Swiss watch Rolex was a symbol of the status of some bosses. Therefore, from an ordinary Rolex with tens of thousands of yuan to a diamond Rolex with 1 tens of thousands of yuan, it sells well in Hong Kong. Rolex, headquartered in Switzerland, will fly a batch of Rolex to Hong Kong every once in a while, and then the security company will be responsible for escorting it from the airport to the location of Rolex Hong Kong Company in Central Hong Kong. The whole process is strictly confidential and heavily guarded.
On this day, Swiss Rolex Company airlifted another batch of Rolex watches to Hong Kong, and a private security company in Hong Kong was responsible for the escort.
At about 1 1: 30 noon that day, an escort car of a security company drove into the warehouse area of the airport through the automatic door and then stopped in front of the warehouse building. When the car door opened, a uniformed escort with a shotgun jumped out of the car and quickly stood by the car to watch. Then the other two escorts walked out of the car door and entered the warehouse to go through the formalities.
Escorts entering the warehouse area will hand over the relevant procedures to the warehouse freight station. After the people at the freight station check that it is correct, they will transport dozens of boxes of goods to the escort car. The supercargo shall make an inventory immediately. After the inventory is correct, the supercargo shall go through the delivery formalities with the freight station. When boxes of watches were loaded into the car and the escort was about to close the door, five masked men suddenly rushed over. The masked men had a clear division of labor. The two men ran to the cab, held a pistol against the escort sitting in the cab, and handed over the weapons in the hands of the comatose escort. The other three men pointed pistols at two escorts who moved watches, quickly pushed them into the car, handcuffed them with plastic handcuffs, sealed their mouths with tape paper, and locked the doors from the outside.
The masked man in the cab put on the uniform taken off by the escort, and started the car and drove away while the escort behind him was locked into the carriage. The whole robbery took less than ten minutes.
After leaving the freight warehouse, the escort car left the gate of the freight station smoothly and headed for the airport tunnel. After arriving at the entrance of the tunnel, the car suddenly changed direction and drove along Kai Fook Road towards Kwun Tong. After a while, there was no trace.
The security company responsible for escorting such valuables has strict working procedures, and the escort vehicles should keep in touch with the company headquarters at any time during their work. But this time, the company headquarters did not receive the report from the escort at the scheduled time, so it immediately contacted the escort car. At that time, mobile phones were not popular, but the security company equipped the escorts with pagers, and the company headquarters immediately paged the escorts, but there was no response after paging. The company headquarters immediately reported the case to the police.
After receiving the report, the Hong Kong police immediately informed all police patrolling the expressway to pay close attention to an escort vehicle.
A few hours later, the police found the missing escort car by Changyi Road in Kowloon Bay. When I opened the back door, I found three escorts in the car, their hands tied behind their backs and their eyes blindfolded. 40 cases of watches have been removed from the car. According to the escort, the robbers changed cars here and then disappeared.
At about 5 pm that day, Hong Kong police received an alarm from passers-by that a truck caught fire in front of the pump house of Andersen Service Reservoir in Hong Kong. The police rushed to the scene to investigate and found no useful clues, but several brand-new women's Rolex watches were found in the grass near the wreckage of the truck. According to the statistics afterwards, the robbers snatched 40 boxes of 2,500 Rolex watches with a total value of 30 million Hong Kong dollars. The Hong Kong police investigated the case for a long time and found some signs that it was committed by a gang headed by Zhang Ziqiang, but found no conclusive evidence and had to hang it as an unsolved case.
Robbed a bank armored car.
199 1 12 One morning in July, one and a half years after the Rolex case, a bank in Hong Kong wanted to transfer some cash to the United States. The cash was transported to Kai Tak Airport by cash van of Hong Kong Wei 'an Security Company, and then airlifted to the United States, including US$ 65.438+0.7 million and HK$ 35 million, with a total value of about HK$ 65.438+0.7 billion.
Zhang Ziqiang's cash truck from Wei 'an Security Company drove into the warehouse area of Kai Tak Airport and stopped in front of the freight management building. One of the escorts got off the bus and went to the administrative building to go through the formalities. The other three escorts stood at the front of the car with shotguns, and one sat in the carriage as a guard.
At this time, as if the Rolex robbery were repeated, five robbers suddenly appeared in front of the cash truck, four of them were wearing masks, 1 nobody. The man without a mask is Zhang Ziqiang. Zhang Ziqiang rushed forward with a pistol and led two gangsters to force two escorts in front of the car into the car with pistols. Other gangsters rushed into the car and resisted the escort with pistols.
The three escorts were immediately covered with cloth by the robbers. A masked robber jumped into the cab and the cash truck galloped away like a runaway horse.
When the Hong Kong police arrived at the scene of the robbery, Zhang Ziqiang and others had driven the cash truck through the airport tunnel, turned onto Hong 'an Road in Kowloon, turned into Regent Garden shortly after going forward, then quickly bypassed Regent Garden, turned onto Ye Qi Road along Hong 'an Road, parked the car under the overpass of Tate's Cairn Tunnel under construction, and got on a white van to meet them.
While the robbers were busy carrying the stolen money, the blindfolded escort tied up in the car was very nervous. One of them was covered in sweat, and the sweat ran down his forehead and into his eye socket, causing the blindfolded black cloth to slide down a little, revealing half of the escort's eyes. The escort saw Zhang Ziqiang without a mask from the edge of the cloth.
Several robbers didn't notice the bound escort. After transferring the money, the robbers immediately boarded the van and flew along Prince Edward Road to Mong Kok, leaving the cash truck and its escort on the side of the road.
At this time, in the white van speeding on the highway, the robbers looked at nine big pockets and a small pocket full of money, ecstatic. Zhang Ziqiang took out a knife and opened a large canvas bag full of cash, revealing a bundle of Hong Kong dollars, almost all of which were old banknotes.
I took out a stack of 1000 yuan stamped with the bank seal and threw it to Hu who was sitting there. Hu flipped his hand like playing poker and said, "Wow, they are all big scalpers!" " "Hong Kong people like to call it Daniel because the denomination of 1000 yuan is yellow. Then, they threw the money into the canvas bag.
When Zhang Ziqiang picked up another pocket full of dollars with a knife, he was shocked. The original dollars in his pocket are all new coins, and they are all numbered. Zhang Ziqiang reached out and took out a bundle of dollars from his pocket, stabbed the paper tape tied to the dollar with a knife, and then threw all the bundles of dollars out of the car.
A robber sitting by the window quickly reached for it, but it was too late. He watched the thrown dollars flying like snowflakes and scattered in the fields outside the car. He turned around and asked inexplicably, "Why did you throw away all your hard-earned dollars?"
Zhang Ziqiang sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.
Hu knocked on the shouting robber and said, "You don't understand. This is called offering sacrifices to heaven and earth to ensure peace. "
Kai Tak Airport 1? The robbery of HK$ 700 million shocked the financial system in Southeast Asia and even the United States. The Hong Kong police put a lot of police force into the investigation. Not many clues were found from the scene. One of the escorts saw the face of a robber without a mask, but because he was unfamiliar with it, it was of little value until he caught the robber. In addition, the escort was too nervous at that time, and it was not clear when describing this person to the police afterwards. After analysis, the police believe that the robbers' information is so accurate and the tactics are so rapid that there must be internal personnel to cooperate. The police quietly pointed the investigation target at the inside of Wei' an Security Company.
Shortly after the incident, a woman deposited HK$ 4 10000 in the same account in the same bank. The bank immediately informed the police of this situation. After verification by the police, all the cash deposited by the woman was robbed at Kai Tak Airport.
The police later discovered that a woman named Luo Yanfang provided the cash to the woman, while Luo Yanfang was an employee of the transportation department of Wei 'an Security Company, which was responsible for cash escort at Kai Tak Airport. The police immediately turned their attention to Luo Yanfang.
After further investigation, the police made an important discovery: Luo Yanfang's husband is Zhang Ziqiang, a triad figure with a big criminal record in the police station! Then I found that Zhang Ziqiang's income and expenditure were very problematic. Together with the cash deposited by Zhang Ziqiang and Luo Yanfang in the bank, this is the money stolen at Kai Tak Airport. The police believed that Zhang Ziqiang and Luo Yanfang were the main suspects in the Kai Tak airport robbery, so they arrested Zhang Ziqiang and Luo Yanfang.
1992165438+1On October 23rd, the Hong Kong High Court held a hearing on Zhang Ziqiang's alleged robbery of an airport cash truck. After the identification of the cash truck escort and various evidences provided by the police, the court found Zhang Ziqiang guilty and sentenced him to fixed-term imprisonment of 18 years. However, due to insufficient evidence, Luo Yanfang was acquitted in court.
After her release, Luo Yanfang immediately called Zhang Ziqiang "loudly". She held a press conference, at which Luo Yanfang first said to many microphones, "Mr. Zhang Ziqiang was wronged. The only witness accused by the police of Mr. Zhang was an accompanying person, who claimed to have seen Zhang Ziqiang at the scene. However, when he made an identification at the scene, he could not immediately recognize Mr. Zhang, but turned to identify Mr. Zhang when he left the identification site. This kind of appraisal can not help but make people doubt its true degree. Moreover, this evidence is independent and cannot form a chain of evidence, so it cannot be established in law. We are confident to win this lawsuit. "
A reporter asked Luo Yanfang, "What does Ms. Luo Yanfang have to say?" Luo Yanfang faced the camera and slowly took off her sunglasses. People saw her in tears. She said: "The police not only create unjust cases, but also extort confessions by torture. Look! " Then, Luo Yanfang suddenly lifted her long skirt, revealing her snow-white thigh with a long reddish scar on the inner thigh.
The whole press conference venue immediately became agitated, and Luo Yanfang cried and said, "Inside, the police cut my thigh with a knife to get me to confess."
The scene was exclaimed.
On June 23rd, 1995, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal held a hearing on Zhang Ziqiang's appeal. At this time, the efforts of Luo Yanfang and his lawyers have achieved remarkable results. Zhang Ziqiang was released in court.
The released Zhang Ziqiang did not stop there. The next day, he openly drove his expensive yellow Limbaugh Ni Jian sports car, invited a reporter from Hong Kong TV station to "sue" the police, and claimed compensation from the Hong Kong police in the name of injustice. To this end, the Hong Kong police later paid 8 million Hong Kong dollars to Zhang Ziqiang. Zhang Ziqiang's name is almost a household name in Hong Kong and has become a social star. [ 1]
Kidnap a rich man
From 65438 to 0997, Zhang Ziqiang, who tasted the sweetness of kidnapping the rich, turned his attention to Guo Bingxiang, the boss of Sun Hung Kai and the second richest Chinese in the world.
He kidnapped two wealthy businessmen, Li Zeju (the eldest son of Li Ka-shing) and Guo Bingxiang. 65438+1At about 5 pm on May 23, 1996, when Li Zeju was driving at a corner of Sham Shui Wan Road in the southern district of Hong Kong Island, Zhang Ziqiang and other kidnappers held Li Zeju and his driver hostage with submachine guns, pistols and grenades. Broke into the Li family with one hand, and his mouth was about two billion. Li Ka-shing was having breakfast, politely asked him to sit down, and then said that $200 million can't be transferred at once, and it takes time to raise money. At that time, Zhang Ziqiang was tied with many detonators and was asked not to call the police, and to prepare cash and a car for him to leave safely. Later, Li Ka-shing said that he could only give one billion yuan in cash, and Zhang Ziqiang wanted 65.438+0.038 billion yuan for good luck. It took more than three hours to put N bags of cash in woven bags for Zhang Ziqiang to load in the car, and Li Ka-shing really didn't call the police, which made Zhang Ziqiang successfully rob one billion Hong Kong dollars, which is also the highest amount of extortion in Hong Kong robbery so far.
1998 was arrested
1998165438+10 12, Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court publicly made a first-instance judgment on the case of Zhang Ziqiang, and sentenced five defendants, including Zhang Ziqiang, to death.
On the day of Zhang Ziqiang's trial of Zhang Ziqiang Group, the military and police were fully armed around the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court. At the same time, the Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mrs Regina Ip, said that the trial of Zhang Ziqiang's underworld organization by the mainland judicial authorities did not damage Hong Kong's judicial jurisdiction, and people should not doubt Hong Kong's judicial independence. The independence shown is that in Guangzhou, Zhang Ziqiang's 660 million yuan of black money was completely confiscated; In Hong Kong, on165438+10.3, the Hong Kong High Court revoked the Department of Justice's property freeze order against Zhang Ziqiang's group members 13 relatives, arguing that the evidence at this stage was insufficient to freeze more than HK$ 6,543.8+6 billion in property, including property houses, jewels, yachts, antiques, cash and bank deposits. Mainland media coverage of Zhang Ziqiang's case is quite limited, but the word underworld will be talked about more and more.
At 1998, everyone knows Zhang Ziqiang's name. Another famous thing about Zhang Ziqiang is that the Hong Kong police seem to be powerless to him. It's not that we can't catch him, but after we catch him, we have to let him out, and every time he holds a "V" in his hand. This time, he was arrested by the mainland police and sentenced to death in accordance with mainland laws.
Zhang Ziqiang was arrested. Because Zhang Ziqiang is a Hong Kong citizen, the crime was committed in the Mainland and Hong Kong respectively. There are various opinions on whether Zhang Ziqiang should be tried by mainland judicial organs. However, the judicial departments in Hong Kong and the Mainland agree that many criminal activities have taken place in the Mainland, and there are laws to follow in the trial of the judicial organs in the Mainland.
Up to 1998, He and several associates were arrested in Chinese mainland, and the case was tried in Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court. He and his four associates were sentenced to death and executed in 12. It is rumored that Zhang Ziqiang turned to the Hong Kong government for help on the grounds of "being a Hong Kong resident and committing a crime in Hong Kong", requesting extradition to Hong Kong for trial to avoid the death penalty, but it was rejected by the Hong Kong government. At that time, the reason announced by the Hong Kong Government was: "Because mainland public security organs committed crimes in the Mainland, they enjoyed judicial jurisdiction." During the trial of the case, they also actively provided evidence to the mainland courts. The incident triggered a controversy about whether criminals should be extradited to Hong Kong for trial after being arrested in the Mainland, which has continued to this day.
Hong Kong people applauded when Zhang Ziqiang was arrested, but there was no death penalty in Hong Kong criminal law, and Zhang Ziqiang was executed. Mainland judicial organs have helped Hong Kong people and harmed China people!