China News Service, Shanghai, March 1 (Reporter Li Shuzheng) carefully designed scams and built withdrawal channels in advance, and hired personnel to play both sides of the business, under the guise of the buyer's need to show the seller's financial strength (i.e. "bright capital"), defrauding "passengers". Bridge capital” amounted to 100 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
The Shanghai police held a press conference on the 1st to report the huge fraud case.
The police destroyed the entire chain of fraud gangs headed by criminal suspect Chen Moufu in Shanghai and Fujian, and arrested more than 20 criminal suspects.
Two buckets of 1.6 million yuan in cash were dug out of a dirt pit more than 1 meter deep at the foot of the mountain behind Chen Moufu's home.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Police
According to the police, more than 81 million yuan of economic losses have been recovered from the defrauded party, and the rest of the money has been clearly identified and is being recovered.
"Bright capital" scam diverted 100 million yuan
On January 21, Mr. He, an employee of a trading company in Shanghai, got acquainted with Lan Moufeng and his friend Chen Mouying, who claimed to be the legal representative of a trading company.
During the conversation, Lan and Chen said that they were going to do a stone business with a company in Fujian in the near future, and they needed to "give up" to the other party to show the company's operating conditions and financial strength. They hoped to borrow RMB 100 million from Mr. He's company. As "bridge funds" and guaranteed to be held for only 3 hours.
After obtaining the consent of the legal representative of his company, Mr. He received a "favor fee" of 200,000 yuan, and verbally agreed to transfer money in Lan Moufeng Company (actually a homestay rented by Chen Mouying) on January 24.
The police destroyed the entire chain of fraud gangs headed by criminal suspect Chen Moufu in Shanghai and Fujian, and arrested more than 20 criminal suspects.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Police
On the afternoon of January 24, Mr. He arrived as scheduled. In addition to Lan and Chen, there were also Huang Mou, a businessman from a stone company who claimed to be Lan Moufeng's business partner, and others.
Seeing that "both parties to the business" were there, Mr. He did not doubt that he was there, that is, he transferred 100 million yuan to the bank account provided by Lan Moufeng as agreed.
Later, Chen Mouying left first on the pretext of arranging a thank-you banquet that night, while Mr. He chatted with Lan Moufeng and others at the scene, and waited for 3 hours to transfer the money back.
However, in the past half an hour, Mr. He suddenly found that the funds had been transferred from the account several times, and Mr. He, who noticed that he had been deceived, called the police.
Solving cases and recovering stolen goods are advancing simultaneously
After receiving the alarm, the police from the Huangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau immediately rushed to the scene and arrested four suspects, including Lan Moufeng and Huang Mou, on the spot, and immediately set up a special team to investigate and track the case. It only took 9 hours to escape under the pretext of excuses. Another suspect at the scene, Chen Mouying, was arrested and brought to justice.
The picture shows the site of the press conference.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Police
On January 25, the task force arrested Chen Moufu, the main criminal suspect behind the scam, in a commercial building in Hongkou District, Shanghai. The role and tasks of each person in the scam were marked in detail in a division table he carried with him. division of labor.
Accordingly, the police followed suit and arrested the remaining criminal suspects of the fraud gang one by one.
The police dynamically sort out the accounts involved and the flow of funds according to the progress of the case investigation, and timely stop and freeze the suspected accounts involved in accordance with the principle of "stop payment upon discovery", block the flow of funds involved in the case, and avoid the property loss of the defrauded party to the greatest extent possible.
"In 5 days, the task force went to 7 places in 5 provinces including Jiangsu and Jiangxi, and successfully stopped the payment and frozen the funds involved in the case of more than 54 million yuan." said Feng Jiazhou, the instructor of the third team of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Huangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau.
Huge amount of cash dug up in 1 meter deep soil
The task force dug deeply into the "money laundering and withdrawal" criminal gang hidden at the back end of the case, and arrested the criminal suspect Lin Moufu in Fuzhou on January 29, and found that under the instruction of Chen Moufu, he had already withdrawn cash. The money was scattered and hidden among relatives and friends, and buried in the wild.
Based on this, after careful investigation of the social relations between Chen and Lin, the police successively confiscated 24.9 million yuan in cash involved in the case from their relatives, and dug out a 1-meter-deep soil pit at the foot of the mountain behind Chen Moufu’s home. Two barrels of cash amounted to 1.6 million yuan, and a commission of 330,000 yuan was seized from the suspect Lin Moubin of the withdrawal group and others.
According to Zhao Wei, deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Huangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, more than 81 million yuan of funds involved in the case have been recovered; 21 suspects including Chen Moufu and Chen Mouying have been taken criminal compulsory measures by the Huangpu Police; the rest are involved in the case Funds and suspects are still under investigation.
The police have recovered more than 81 million yuan of funds involved in the case.
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Unravel an elaborate scam
After the suspect arrived at the case, he truthfully confessed the process of committing the crime, and a well-designed scam emerged.
It turned out that Chen Moufu, as the main suspect in the case, carefully planned the scam: on the one hand, Chen Mouying was instructed to recruit staff to plan and implement the scam against Mr. He; on the other hand, Lin Moufu, a relative who was arranged in Fujian, tried every means to get through At each withdrawal link, prepare for the transfer of money after the fraud is successful.
According to Chen Moufu's plan, Chen Mouying took the lead in recruiting a number of social personnel to implement the scam.
She took the promise of giving hundreds of thousands of benefits as bait, and first found her friend Lan Moufeng, saying that she wanted to do a stone business, but because the untrustworthy person could not register the company, she asked her to help register the company and open a private company. account.
Then, she found Huang and others to play the staff of a stone company in Fujian.
The police excavated the buried cash in the field at the foot of the mountain in the backyard of Chen Moufu's home.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Police
In this way, Chen Mouying instigated the above-mentioned personnel to jointly carry out the so-called "bridging fund" fraudulent use of "bridging funds" against Mr. He.
After the money arrived in the account, Chen Mouying took the opportunity to escape, while Chen Moufu, who was hiding behind the scenes, immediately transferred and withdrawn the money according to the established plan, and fantasized about hiding himself by "sacrifice" Lan, Huang and others.
However, Chen Moufu and Chen Mouying did not escape the pursuit of the police in the end.
According to Zhuang Liqiang, a police officer from the Office of the Press Spokesperson of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, the so-called "bright capital" generally refers to the demonstration of financial strength by one party to the other in economic activities in order to promote cooperation or trading.
In reality, some companies may be unable to gather sufficient funds for various reasons, and will create the illusion of sufficient funds through short-term borrowing. At this time, commercial fraud, or even fraud and other illegal and criminal acts may occur.
The police said that at this time, for the lender of funds, if they knew that the "bright capital" party had the intention of defrauding, and also contributed funds to commit joint fraud, they would be suspected of joint crime.
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