China News Service, Shanghai, July 25 (Reporter Li Shuzheng) The intermediary of futures companies publicly analyzes and predicts futures price trends and provides specific buying and selling suggestions, uses words to guide customers to conduct high-frequency repeated transactions, and collects investment in disguised form with high futures transaction fees Consulting fees, illegal profits of more than 10 million yuan (RMB, the same below).

　　The reporter learned from the Shanghai police on the 25th that recently, the Economic Investigation Team of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, together with the Fengxian Public Security Bureau, detected China's first case of illegally operating a futures investment consulting business by an intermediary of a futures company, involving a transaction amount of more than 320 million yuan.

The police arrested 14 suspects and seized more than 20 books of futures investment consulting.

　　In the early stage, the Economic Investigation Team of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau found in the work that someone publicly analyzed and predicted the price trend of futures varieties and provided specific trading suggestions through live webcasts, guiding customers to invest in futures and making profits from it, which was suspected of illegally operating the futures investment consulting business. .

The Economic Investigation Team of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and the Fengxian Public Security Bureau established a joint task force to carry out the investigation, and quickly identified the criminal gang headed by the criminal suspect Wang.

　　The police found out that the criminal suspect Wang's gang registered a technology company and signed an intermediary agreement with a futures company to become the intermediary of the futures company.

　　According to the police, the so-called intermediary of a futures company is entrusted by the futures company to provide intermediary services for the futures company to conclude a futures brokerage contract. Clear trading advice.

　　However, the police investigation found that in order to seek illegal benefits, Wang and others privately set up a website to open a live broadcast room in the actual business process, and recruited Wang and other people without futures industry qualifications and backgrounds to serve as lecturers, and teach through online live broadcasts , online group chats, etc., analyze and predict the price trend of futures varieties and provide specific buying and selling suggestions, and guide customers to conduct futures investment transactions.

As of the incident, the gang had accumulated illegal profits of more than 10 million yuan through the above-mentioned modus operandi.

The public security organs have arrested Wang and other two major criminal suspects in accordance with the law, and have taken criminal coercive measures against the remaining 12 suspects in accordance with the law.

Photo courtesy of Shanghai Police

　　Ms. Zeng, a citizen, had previously watched the webcast course offered by the technology company on the Internet. Afterwards, the company's salesperson took the initiative to add Ms. Zeng as a friend and introduced the investment project to her enthusiastically.

According to the salesman, the company is a "professional and in-depth domestic futures service organization". Ms. Zeng can participate in futures investment as a part-time investor. She only needs to invest 100,000 yuan of investment principal, and she can easily obtain 500 to 1,000 yuan per day. Yuan profit.

When Ms. Zeng pointed out that she did not know the knowledge of futures, the salesman recommended the company's professional lecturers to her, saying that she could provide her with professional and reliable operation advice, so as to ensure that Ms. Zeng could make no losses.

Under the guidance of the salesman, Ms. Zeng deposited 1.12 million yuan successively.

　　During the period, the technology company agreed with the customer that each time the customer completes a transaction, it needs to pay the futures company a transaction fee ranging from 5 yuan to 750 yuan per transaction, and this fee is 3% of the transaction fee of similar futures in the market. to 5 times.

After verification by the police, the technology company can take 50% to 70% of it as a rebate, but it is actually charging investment consulting fees in disguise.

　　What's more, Wang's gang will induce customers to conduct multiple transactions and repeat transactions through various words, thereby increasing the number of transactions and achieving the purpose of obtaining more commissions.

In the following year, Ms. Zeng conducted transactions according to the advice of the lecturer. At most, the daily transaction volume reached dozens of times, and she paid a total of more than 100,000 yuan in handling fees.

However, Ms. Zeng's investment resulted in heavy losses, and the final principal was only 500,000 yuan.

　　At present, the public security organs have arrested Wang and other 2 main suspects in accordance with the law, and taken criminal coercive measures against the remaining 12 suspects in accordance with the law. The case is under further investigation.

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