Billion-Dollar Paper Business of
TapTechNews October 10th news, China National Radio Network released a long article today, uncovering the billion-dollar paper business of copycat journals.
According to the report of News Probe of China National Radio's China Voice, not long ago, the Jingmen police in Hubei cracked a cross-provincial counterfeiting journal case, involving the complete industrial chain of soliciting contributions, organizing contributions, printing and even uploading false papers through the internal staff of the website.
It is reported that last year, the Sweeping Away Pornography and Illegal Publications Working Group Office of Duodao District, Jingmen City, transferred a clue transfer letter to the District Public Security Bureau, and the general content is: Hubei Haihao Culture Media Co., Ltd. misappropriated the name of a certain popular science journal agency, collecting and publishing papers, suspected of illegal publishing, illegal business, fraud and other illegal and criminal acts.
Public security police went to the site of Haihao Company for on-site verification. Haihao Company mainly released information through its two websites, Magazine Information Network and Haihao Culture Publishing House. When customers search for keywords such as paper publishing and paper agency publishing on the search platform, these two websites will be displayed on the home page. After entering, the customer service will detail the journal category, types of contributions accepted and publishing time, charging standards, etc.
After careful investigation, Jingmen Public Security wiped out the upstream and downstream of this industrial chain with the cooperation of public security in many places. A total of more than 20 kinds of counterfeit journal magazines were seized, and more than 30,000 papers were published, with a case value of more than 150 million yuan.
Recently, the People's Court of Duodao District, Jingmen City publicly held a trial of this illegal journal business case. Due to the complexity of the case, the court decided to try the cases separately. The 6 defendants who appeared in court this time were sentenced to less than two years' imprisonment or detention respectively, and fined from 50,000 yuan to 970,000 yuan. TapTechNews attaches the full text of the report as follows: