China News Service, Guangzhou, September 29 (Cheng Jingwei and Zhang Weitao) The Guangzhou police reported on the 29th that the Haizhu District Police of the city recently detected a case involving Guangzhou Gai Holding Group Co., Ltd. suspected of organizing and leading a pyramid scheme, and the company’s legal representative and chairman Zhuge A (male, 37 years old) and other 14 criminal suspects were arrested and brought to justice, with funds involved in the case exceeding 10 million yuan.

　　"Making money is as simple as breathing" "Weekly return rate is as high as 6%-13%"... Starting from June 2019, an online social retail e-commerce app called "Gai XX Mall" has been launched in Guangzhou and Guilin. The three places in Chengdu and Chengdu went online, under the concept labels of "Internet +", "New Retail", and "Social E-commerce", and through various forms such as offline presentations and personal introductions, instilling "zero-batch consignment" + "promotional income" "Wealth creation model" uses "high rebates" + "level income" to induce registration and development of members to participate in investment, attracting more than 10,000 members in a short time.

However, after only half a year, the platform could no longer function normally.

　　In November 2019, a number of "Gai XX Mall" members rushed to the headquarters of Guangzhou Gai XX company from various places, asking the company to return the goods consigned by the members in the retail area of ​​the platform, and return all the members' books on the platform. Jin, but was rejected by the company.

The two parties failed to negotiate, so they called the police.

　　The police intervened in the investigation and found that there were four subsidiaries under Gai, and the actual controllers were Zhuge and others.

However, the company has not had actual revenue items within its business scope in recent years.

　　The "Gai XX Mall" platform is also a lot of tricks.

This seemingly well-designed online shopping platform does not have many types of products, and the quantity is limited, but the price is ridiculously high, more than 10 times higher than the price of similar products in the market.

Take a wine as an example. The platform sells for 1,080 yuan per bottle, but the normal purchase price is actually only 48 yuan, and the cost price is as low as 18 yuan.

　　According to the police, in the operation of the company involved, members of the "Gai XX Mall" have to shop at high prices in the retail area of ​​the platform in order to be eligible for consignment sales in the retail area and obtain a certain percentage of the purchase amount. Wholesale coupons.

Members can use wholesale coupons to stack cash, buy goods at a low price in the wholesale area, and then sell the goods at a high price in the retail area to earn a profit.

　　This seemingly uncompromising profit model of "zero consignment sales" hides a huge risk, that is, it must be established on the basis of constantly adding new members to buy high-priced goods in the retail area.

Once no more new members join, the capital chain will break and fall into the trap of multi-level marketing.

　　On September 14 this year, 10 suspects including Zhuge XX were arrested according to the law with the approval of the procuratorial organ. The case is still under investigation. (Finish)