Two crop of police 6 years relay to detect fraud cases

　　□ Our reporter Liu Zhiyue

　　□ Liu Huan, a trainee reporter of this newspaper

　　□ Our correspondent Luo Weizhou

　　10 years ago, he was defrauded of 5 million yuan due to contract fraud; 7 years ago, the victim rushed from Shanxi to Wuhan, Hubei to report the case.

Has the case been solved yet?

　　After 6 years of unremitting efforts and difficult evidence collection across 6 provinces, the police from the Hongshan Sub-bureau of Wuhan Public Security Bureau in Hubei Province finally cracked the 10-year-long fraud case and brought the two suspects to justice.

　　A reporter from the "Rules of Law Daily" recently walked into the Hongshan District Public Security Bureau to learn about the investigation of the case.

　　An exciting contract

　　The case began in 2011.

The 26-year-old Ms. Qiao was in love with her boyfriend.

　　When her boyfriend's brother Yang learned that Ms. Qiao's family was rich, he often boasted about his steel business in front of her.

　　In August of that year, Yang invited Ms. Qiao and her boyfriend to travel to Wuhan, and by the way, they visited the business district for investment.

The group was dissatisfied after seeing many shops. The night before they were about to go home, Yang and his partner Hong came to the hotel where Ms. Qiao was staying.

"Yang and Hong looked very strange that night. They kept making calls in dialect, and they looked frowning." Ms. Qiao recalled.

　　Upon inquiries, it turned out that the steel business operated by Yang had just received a large order from a state-owned enterprise, which was very profitable, but the company's capital chain was tight and needed 5 million yuan to turn around.

　　Yang borrowed money from Ms. Qiao, promising to return the principal and interest within a month, and then took out an order contract.

　　When Ms. Qiao saw the original contract, she thought it was profitable, and promised on the spot that she would find ways to raise money.

Since the deposit was less than one million yuan, Ms. Qiao borrowed from her brother-in-law and finally transferred the collected five million yuan to Yang and Hong.

　　However, a month later, Yang and Hong did not repay the money on time.

In the face of Ms. Qiao's urging, the two were able to get in touch at first, and then disappeared completely.

Soon, she and her boyfriend also broke up.

　　For a long time, Ms. Qiao always believed that Yang and Hong were borrowing money and would not repay the money. As long as she could find them, she would be able to recover the money. Since then, she has gone to their hometown in Fujian many times to find people, but there has been no progress.

　　Order contract is purely forgery

　　Where are Yang and Hong?

　　At the beginning of 2015, Ms. Qiao walked into the Zhuo Daoquan Police Station of Hongshan District Public Security Bureau with the mentality of giving it a try.

　　According to the steel order contract provided by Ms. Qiao, policemen Liu Wei and Zhao Suoping went to Nanjing and Zhenjiang, Jiangsu to find Party A in the contract. It was identified that the contract was forged.

At this time, Ms. Qiao realized that this was a complete scam.

　　During the subsequent investigation, the police found that Yang and Hong were like disappearing from the world.

　　Since then, every year around the Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, the police handling the case will go to Yang and Hong's hometown in Fujian to inquire about their whereabouts.

Through unremitting efforts, he finally learned of Yang's whereabouts and arrested him in Fujian at the end of 2018.

　　"The steel sales contract was forged by Hong and I. We didn't receive a big order at all. We just wanted to get some money to speculate, and maybe we would make a comeback." Yang explained.

　　It turned out that Yang and Hong saw that a speculative project was profitable, but they had no funds, so they came up with Ms. Qiao's idea.

The two then performed the "Double Reed" in the hotel.

However, the failure of the speculative project made them lose everything, and the two broke up.

　　In 2019, Yang was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 150,000 yuan.

　　Difficult to obtain evidence across several provinces

　　Yang was sentenced, but Hong was still missing, which became the knot of Liu Wei and Jiang Peng, the policeman who succeeded Zhao Suoping.

　　One day in December 2019, a clue caught Liu Wei's attention. There was a trace of Hong near a community on Minquan Road, Jianghan District, Wuhan!

They didn't care about eating and went straight to the community to capture Hong.

　　However, Hong refused to admit the crime when he arrived at the case, only admitted that he received a sum of money with his bank card and then transferred it out, and the rest was ignorant.

　　Because the time span is too long, many clues are difficult to verify.

The police handling the case believed that to prove that Hong was involved in the fraud, it was necessary to collect evidence from the parties who participated in the 5 million yuan speculative business that year, which is undoubtedly extremely difficult.

　　The police handling the case did not flinch. After a lot of work, they obtained key testimonies from many parties, including Ms. Qiao, her brother-in-law, and the middleman of the investment project.

　　In Zhengzhou, Henan, the police found a construction group in which Yang and Hong were involved in speculation. Through investigation, they learned that their investment behavior was related to their subordinate branches.

During this period, Liu Wei and Jiang Peng traveled all over Zhengzhou, Anyang, Taiyuan, Pingyao, Shijiazhuang and other places, and finally found the salesman Huang who witnessed the transfer in Xi'an, Shaanxi.

　　During the business trip, Liu Wei and Jiang Peng averaged more than 20,000 steps a day. They went to the village to find people, and the minibus took more than 5 hours. The witnesses did not want to come forward, so they squatted on the roadside and waited.

Once, after contacting the witnesses, they hurried to Shijiazhuang. In order to cooperate with the local epidemic prevention work, they could only use the police office of the railway station to make notes.

　　"For this case, we ran from the north to the south. A witness had promised to wait in Pingyao, Shanxi, but we ran over and went to Quanzhou, Fujian. We caught up to Quanzhou that night, from minus 11°C in Pingyao. 20°C in Quanzhou is quite sour." Jiang Peng said with a smile.

　　According to Huang's recollection, on August 6, 2011, Yang and Hong came to Xi'an, transferred a total of 5 million yuan from their respective bank cards to the company's account, and determined their respective profit distribution ratios.

　　The results of the police investigation fully proved that the suspect Hong was present and participated in the whole process of the incident and the transfer of the stolen money.

In front of the evidence, Hong had nowhere to turn, and finally admitted the facts of the crime that year.

　　"Back then, I was also fascinated by ghosts and wanted to make a lot of money with the 5 million yuan. In order to avoid debts, these years have been quite miserable." Hong explained.

　　In the end, Hong was arrested in accordance with the law and successfully prosecuted.

In September 2021, the court sentenced Hong to 14 years in prison for fraud.

　　From accepting the case to solving the case, it took 6 years, and the police handling the case changed twice.

"I still answer that sentence. Justice may be late, but it will never be absent!" Liu Wei sighed.