公安部破获一起特大制售假发票案

　　新华网北京4月18日电(记者邹伟、史竞男)公安部18日通报，在公安部统一指挥下，福建、浙江、湖南、贵州、四川5省公安机关近日集中收网，成功摧毁一个以黄某某、陈某某为首的特大制售假发票犯罪团伙，缴获255.8万份假发票和一批制假设备、原材料。

　　今年年初，福建莆田公安机关根据群众举报，对一起特大制售假发票案进行侦办，逐步查明黄某某、陈某某等犯罪嫌疑人在莆田租赁房屋，购置印刷设备印刷假发票，并通过物流销售到温州、长沙、贵阳、成都等地的犯罪情况。

　　情况上报后，公安部高度重视，立即部署涉案地公安机关开展侦查工作，查清了其产供销链条和犯罪窝点，掌握了该团伙的活动规律和犯罪证据。4月9日，公安部在福建泉州设立指挥部，部署5省公安机关开展集中收网行动，黄某某、陈某某等18名犯罪嫌疑人悉数落网。

　　公安部有关负责人介绍，公安机关会同税务部门不断加大对假发票违法犯罪的打击力度，2008年以来共破案2.9万起，缴获假发票13亿份，收缴假发票量已呈明显下降态势，违法犯罪势头得到一定遏制。但受“买方市场”需求和“卖方市场”利益驱使等影响，此类犯罪仍处多发势头，一些地区制售、部分行业使用假发票等问题较为突出。

　　这位负责人表示，公安机关将始终保持严打高压态势，坚决遏制假发票违法犯罪;同时提醒广大群众和商户，依法使用发票，发现假发票违法犯罪线索请及时举报。

　　18 arrests, 2.5 million fake invoices seized

　　BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police have arrested 18 people suspected of forging and selling false invoices and confiscated more than 2.5 million such fakes, the Ministry of Public Security has said.

　　Police in southeast China's Fujian Province began investigating a criminal gang suspected of making fake invoices and transferring them to the provinces of Zhejiang, Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan after receiving a tip-off earlier this year, said a statement from the ministry on Thursday.

　　Under a unified deployment by the ministry, police from those five provinces seized all the suspects engaged in the invoice fraud on April 9, according to the statement.

　　Police across the country have uncovered 29,000 cases of fake invoice-related crimes and confiscated 1.3 billion fake invoices since 2008, said the ministry, adding that the amount of confiscated fake invoices has dropped sharply.

　　The ministry has vowed to continue an iron-fisted crackdown on such crimes, while reminding people to report to police once fake invoices are found.