China News Service, Fuzhou, June 13 (Wang Fang) 1280 yuan "intangible cultural heritage product" = 2000 points + 2 days and 1 night travel + points exchange for cemetery spiritual place + daily cash rebate... Recently, Fuzhou Drum Tower Court concluded a case of illegally attracting the public In the deposit case, nine defendants including Shi Moumou, Zeng Moumou, and Lin Mou used the "Oriental Intangible Cultural Heritage" project to raise funds to defraud 124 elderly people of more than 19 million yuan.

　　"The elderly may just want to get an egg and go away, but as long as they hear it, in all likelihood, they will be tempted." Defendant Zeng Moumou confessed that he recruited three employees and went to the street to find elderly people over 50 years old. Distribute flyers, attract the elderly to listen to lectures in the store by collecting eggs, calendars and health care products for free, and promote and sell the "Oriental Intangible Cultural Heritage" project to the elderly.

　　The Drum Tower Court has found out that since September 2017, a Nanjing company and a cemetery company have set up a number of stores in Fuzhou, recruiting store staff to distribute leaflets to middle-aged and elderly people, make phone calls, etc., and use the method of collecting eggs and health care products. and other activities, attract customers to the store, publicize and promote the "Oriental Intangible Heritage" project.

　　According to reports, the project is aimed at buying and selling intangible cultural heritage products such as jade and porcelain from a company in Nanjing. In fact, money is exchanged for the membership points of the Cemetery Company. Through the repurchase of the points and the RMB at a ratio of 1:1, the customer's consumption points are collected every day. Cash back.

The program promises that customers will actually receive a much higher amount of cash back than they put in.

The manager or finance of each store transfers the member’s consumption money collected to the corporate account designated by Nanjing Head Office on a daily basis, and the company finance then transfers the reserve fund provided by customers to the personal bank of the store manager or person in charge through the personal account. account.

　　The Fuzhou Drum Tower Court held that the defendants Shi Moumou, Zeng Moumou, Lin Mou and other 9 persons participated in the crime as other directly responsible persons in the unit crime, violated the provisions of the national financial management law, and illegally absorbed funds from the public through publicity. Disrupting the financial order, illegally absorbing more than 19 million yuan of funds, a huge amount, all of which have constituted the crime of illegally absorbing public deposits.

　　In view of the fact that the defendant truthfully confessed his crimes after he arrived at the case, withdrew all illegal gains, assisted some fundraising participants to obtain full or partial refunds from the head office after the incident, and some fundraising participants expressed their understanding to the defendant, etc., the court According to the law, the nine defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one year and nine months to one year and a fine of RMB 20,000.

　　The Drum Tower Court attaches great importance to the recovery of stolen goods and damages, and will refund the illegal gains and the frozen funds in the case in proportion to all the fund-raising participants who have not yet returned and compensated in a timely manner.

　　Since 2019, the Drum Tower Court has accepted 28 pension fraud cases, concluded 22 cases, and concluded cases involving a total amount of 360 million yuan. It has increased property penalties, imposed a fine of 2.21 million yuan, and ordered a refund of 240 million yuan. More than 2.51 million yuan has been implemented, and criminals have been severely punished economically.

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