The company was fined 500,000 yuan for the crime of forced trading.
6 Sifang Brothers moving company were sentenced
On August 12, Beijing Sifang Brothers Moving Co., Ltd. was sentenced to the scene of forced transaction crime
On August 12, the People's Court of Chaoyang District, Beijing publicly sentenced Beijing Sifang Brothers Moving Co., Ltd. and Zhao Mouqiang, Xu Moujiang and others for the crime of forced trading.
The Sifang Brothers moving company was fined 500,000 yuan.
Zhao Mouqiang, the legal representative of Beijing Sifang Brothers Moving Co., Ltd., committed the crime of forced trading and was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of 40,000 yuan.
Company employee Xu Moujiang and other 5 people committed the crime of forced trading and were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from two years to one year and six months, and were sentenced to a fine of 20,000 yuan.
The court found that during the period from July 2019 to July 2020, the defendant’s Sifang Brothers Moving Company, in order to obtain illegal benefits, its legal representative and actual controller Zhao Mouqiang agreed with the customer to lower the removal cost by telephone, and induced Make the customer use the moving service provided by the company, and then instruct the defendants Xu Moujiang, Wen Mouqiang, Dou Moufeng, Dou Moufei, Ren Mouhong, etc., who are the team leaders, to unilaterally increase the transportation cost during the removal service. The company also forced customers to pay higher service fees by stopping moving, refusing to leave, and verbal threats. There were 43 crimes, which seriously disrupted the order of the market economy.
The court held that the Sifang Brothers Moving Company used threats to force others to accept services, disrupted the market order of fair competition, and violated the victims' freedom of transaction. It was an act of forcing others to accept services by threats, and the circumstances were particularly serious.
As the main person in charge of Sifang Brothers Moving Company, Zhao Mouqiang organized and planned the implementation of forced transactions. He was the person in charge directly responsible for the company; Xu Moujiang and other 5 people directly participated in the implementation of the forced transactions of Sifang Brothers Moving Company and were directly responsible. The actions of the staff, the Sifang Brothers Moving Company, and Zhao Moqiang, Xu Mojiang and other five people have all constituted the crime of forced trading.
Since Zhao Mouqiang pleaded guilty and punished in court, the defendant Xu Moujiang and other 5 persons were accomplices and had confession, pleaded guilty and punished. Therefore, the court imposed a lighter punishment on Zhao Mouqiang and mitigated punishment on Xu Moujiang and other 5 persons in accordance with the law.
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"Sifang Brothers" sitting on the ground and raising prices are not accidental
"At night, a big man with a size of more than 1.8 meters sat at my house and blackmailed more than 20,000 yuan. The moving company, the'Sifang Brothers' company, usually costs about 1,200 to 1,500 yuan for moving, but even blackmailed more than 20,000 yuan. It was not the price that could be calculated when negotiating the conditions before. Report this black company.” This is the scene of the victim Ms. Wu through self-media on July 25, 2020.
Because the moving price obviously exceeded the common people's perception, this incident quickly attracted the attention of the media and many government departments.
On November 2, 2020, the Beijing Chaoyang District Market Supervision Bureau issued an administrative penalty decision on the Sifang Brothers Moving Company in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Price Law and the Advertising Law. In addition to giving warnings and ordering them to immediately correct illegal activities, They were required to eliminate the impact within the corresponding scope and at the same time be fined 800,000 yuan.
A reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily noticed that there are still litigations concerning the Sifang Brothers moving company on the Chinese Judgment Documents website, which is also a dispute caused by the price increase due to sitting on the ground.
The plaintiff, Mr. Ding, sued that on July 22, 2019, he contacted Sifang Brothers Moving Company to move. On the 23rd, the plaintiff found that the content of the contract was inconsistent with the previous verbal agreement, but he did not object to the matter due to his eagerness to move.
According to the contract, Mr. Ding should pay a total of 6,440 yuan, but the defendant demanded 2,1440 yuan from the plaintiff and actually collected 21,000 yuan.
After the trial, the court found that the defendant did indeed have overcharged and requested Sifang Brothers Moving Company to refund the service fee of more than 9,000 yuan.
This group of articles / our reporter Song Xia Lin Lishuang Correspondent Huang Shuo