The reporter learned from the Chengxi Public Security Bureau of Xining City that recently, the Economic Investigation Team of the branch uncovered a self-money laundering case involving more than 15 million yuan.
At the same time, this case is also the first "self-laundering" case handled by Qinghai Province since "Criminal Law Amendment (XI)" criminalized "self-laundering".
It is reported that the clues of the case came from the case of "Guo is suspected of contract fraud and fund-raising fraud". The economic investigation team found that Guo was also suspected of self-money laundering in handling the above case, and then actively contacted the Xining Central Sub-branch of the People's Bank of China and the Chengxi District People's Procuratorate A task force was set up to carry out joint case handling, to simultaneously investigate Guo's suspected fund-raising fraud and self-money laundering crimes, and to fix and retrieve the criminal facts and relevant evidence of Guo's "self-laundering".
After investigation, since August 2021, the criminal suspect Guo Mou, knowing that he and his company are not qualified to sell real estate in multiple communities in Xining City, passed the "new capital" on the grounds that he knew the salesperson could obtain preferential house prices. Repaying old debts, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall”, he signed house purchase agreements with 35 victims, including Zhong and Li, and defrauded the victims of the purchase price, involving more than 15 million yuan.
In the process of defrauding the victim for arrears, in order to cover up and conceal the proceeds of crime, Guo used his driver Lei Mousheng's bank card account to collect the victim's illicit money, and then instructed Lei Mousheng to use the received illicit money to repay Guo through bank transfer. A person's illicit money, and transferred more than 90,000 yuan of illicit money in Lei Mousheng's bank card to Guo's own bank card for squandering.
In the end, after synthesizing the opinions of various parties and studying carefully, according to the provisions of the "Criminal Law Amendment (11)", which will be implemented from March 1, 2021, it is believed that the criminal suspect Guo Mou, for the purpose of illegal possession, concealed the truth and took advantage of the purchase of a house. Defrauding the victim's property, the amount is relatively large, and its behavior constitutes the crime of fund-raising fraud.
After the perpetrator commits the crime of fund-raising fraud, in order to cover up or conceal the source and nature of his criminal income and the income generated, he transfers funds and other acts, which constitutes the crime of self-money laundering.
The People's Procuratorate of Chengxi District, Xining City approved the arrest of Guo for the crime of fundraising fraud and money laundering.
(Headquarters CCTV reporter Gao Shan)