On December 24, Kang Weizhong, head of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Gansu Provincial Public Security Department, reported the country's first pure online "routine loan" criminal case at a press conference of the Ministry of Public Security.
Since March 2018, Wang Moutao and others have successively registered more than 20 shell companies, developed 24 online loan platforms such as "Tiantuwang", and recruited in the form of "corporate operation" management by means of "routine loans" Professionals are engaged in online lending business, defraud victims to borrow, and charge super high interest; through multiple platforms, "borrow the new and repay the old", "repay the loan with the loan", maliciously increase the "debt"; and establish outsourcing collection relations with 24 collection companies , Using telephone insults, threats, sending PS nude photos and other "soft violence" methods to illegally collect collections and forcibly return false high debts.
In the past year, the organization has illegally made more than 2.8 billion yuan in illegal profits, and has unrecovered illegal debts of more than 9.8 billion yuan. More than 475,000 people have been killed, of which 3 committed suicide.
In March 2019, the task force launched a unified network collection operation, arrested 269 criminal suspects, frozen RMB 1.028 billion and HK$227 million, seized 172.12 kg of gold and 14 sets of real estate.
In September 2020, the Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court issued a verdict on the case, and the principal culprit Wang Moutao was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of organizing, leading a triad organization, fraud, and provoking trouble.
(Part of the video source of Lang Jiahui's Beijing report is Le Xiaomin, editor of the Ministry of Public Security)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]