Eleven members of a single Chinese family, including brothers and cousins, arranged fake marriages ending in divorce in a short time, in order to circumvent state-provided apartments to compensate those affected by maintenance work in the village where most reside.
According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, 23 marriages and divorces were carried out by fraudsters in one month, to benefit from a government program in Zhejiang Province, where the government offered compensation equivalent to a new apartment of 40 square meters to anyone registered in the civil registry as a resident of the region, as a result of development work Ongoing in a village in the province.
In March, a man allegedly remarried to his ex-husband, who has been separated since 2011, to benefit from having papers proving she is a villager, which is necessary to get a free apartment, but his marriage lasted only six, the Global Times said. Days to announce after her divorce.
The newspaper reveals that the marriage period was enough for the groom to obtain a certificate of residence in the city, which he can maintain after the divorce and authorize him to obtain real estate property.
New marriages
Ban's circumvention did not stop there.He committed new business and was keen to bring undue benefits to his family for compensatory apartments.In two weeks, he married his first sister and divorced her.He then married and divorced her second sister.
Ban's ex-wife followed the example of her husband, using the same method of circumvention.He then married a former husband and divorced her to help him obtain documents that would lead him to make use of the compensatory apartments, bringing the total number of marriages and divorces by family members 23 times a month.
Local police in the village where the trickster family lives have opened an investigation into the fake marriages and launched investigations into those involved who confessed to circumvent them and justified their actions with greed.