Don't tell her to make a guilty transfer
□ Our reporter Zhan Haifeng
□ Correspondent Liu Yihan
Lovers are relatively close social relationships, trust each other during love, and often do not distinguish between each other.
As the relationship develops, it seems natural for both parties to live together, log in to each other's payment account and use each other's money.
But does the act of "secretly transferring money" constitute a crime without the lover's knowledge?
Recently, the People's Court of Beibei District, Chongqing City heard a case of theft between a couple.
The defendant Yu and Dai are in a relationship. From September to early December 2019, Yu used Dai's WeChat and Alipay to steal accounts from his account several times while his girlfriend Dai was asleep at night. Funds, and delete WeChat and Alipay transfer records and bank transaction text messages after each transfer.
Yu used the above methods to steal a total of RMB 18,282 and consume the stolen money.
On December 12, 2019, the defendant Yu took the initiative to surrender to the public security organ and truthfully confessed the above criminal facts.
After the incident, the defendant Yu refunded the loss of the victim Dai and obtained the victim's forgiveness.
After trial, the court held that the defendant Yu had secretly stolen other people’s property for the purpose of illegal possession, in a large amount, and his behavior constituted the crime of theft and should be punished according to law.
Defendant Yu voluntarily surrendered after committing a crime and truthfully confessed his crime. He surrendered himself and can be given a lighter punishment.
He voluntarily pleaded guilty and punished, compensated for the loss of the victim and obtained an understanding, and can be dealt with leniently.
In the end, the Beibei court sentenced Yu to theft in accordance with the law, sentenced him to eight months’ imprisonment, announced one year’s probation, and fined him 3,000 yuan.
The judge said that although the relationship between lovers is close, the intimate relationship is not a legitimate reason for ignoring the law to use the other party’s property at will. Without the consent of the other party, the amount of money stolen from the other party’s property is large, or the other party’s property is stolen multiple times. Constitutes a crime of theft.
At the same time, the judge reminded everyone that romantic relationships should also maintain appropriate boundaries, and that personal information such as account passwords and payment passwords must be properly kept to prevent the money in the account from being stolen by the "closest person" due to the leakage of the password.