Illegal fundraising of more than 200 million yuan! 3,500 middle-aged and elderly people were deceived [Chongqing police announced typical cases of pension fraud]
By distributing leaflets, giving gifts, cash back and other forms, it illegally raised more than 200 million yuan from more than 4,000 people, and the number of middle-aged and elderly people deceived was as high as 3,500.
Yesterday, the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau held a press conference to report the above-mentioned typical cases.
Recently, the Chongqing Shizhu Police cracked a case of illegally absorbing public deposits mainly aimed at the elderly in a special operation against pension fraud, and arrested 9 persons involved in the case.
The criminal suspects promised to pay high interest for illegal fund-raising, and focused on illegal fund-raising for the elderly by distributing leaflets to the elderly, giving gifts, cash back, and organizing dinners during Chinese New Year and festivals.
"The routine of this case is very simple. It is to seize the characteristics of some elderly people who have a certain economic income, have free time, and like to take small advantages." Cheng Xiao, a member of the Party Committee, director of the Political Department, and spokesperson of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau, introduced that crime The gang used high interest rates as a bait and adopted three modes of borrowing, equity transfer, and (false) leaseback after car sales, and illegally raised more than 200 million yuan from more than 4,000 people, including 3,500 elderly people.
At the press conference, Cheng Xiao also introduced three recent illegal fund-raising methods for the elderly.
Using "high interest rebates" and "consumption rebates" as bait to implement illegal fund-raising fraud, promise to repay the principal and interest, guaranteed dividends, etc., to lure investment, this is a primitive form.
Under the guise of "investment in calligraphy and painting", illegal fundraising fraud was carried out.
Criminals often first publicize the idea that "investing in calligraphy and painting can get high returns", and then "calligraphy and painting should not be kept by themselves", and the platform can "provide a sales appreciation channel", etc., and then provide consignment services. Add the cover until it is stuck.
In the name of "providing elderly care services" and "investing in elderly care projects", illegal fund-raising frauds are carried out.
Criminal gangs charge membership fees, security deposits, bed fees in the name of having no real content to provide elderly care services or in the name of investing in elderly care bases and elderly care construction projects, or in the form of rebate sales, after-sale leases, agreed repurchase, and equal division of property rights, etc. illegal fundraising.
According to Hualong.com
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Recently, in a special campaign to crack down on pension fraud, Chongqing Nan'an police successfully destroyed a criminal gang that sold "ancestral magic medicine" to the elderly to commit fraud, and seized more than 2,000 kilograms of counterfeit medicines involved.
In April of this year, Chongqing Nan'an police found a clue about pension-related fraud in their work: a criminal gang was selling fake medicines to the elderly to commit fraud.
According to the clues obtained in the early stage, the special team quickly arrested the criminal suspect Yang Mou who sold counterfeit medicines, and seized more than 20 kilograms of "magic medicine" marked with ancestral secret recipes at the scene.
After the task force followed the line and dug deep, it was found that since March 2019, the criminal gang headed by Ye had mixed and stirred herbs, hormones, analgesics and cough medicines in a simple black workshop and kneaded them into pills , claiming to be an ancestral "magic medicine" that can treat rheumatism, cough and asthma, and stomach problems. Through the development of offline, it is sold to the elderly in rural areas of Chongqing, Sichuan, and Guizhou.
According to preliminary statistics, more than 800 elderly people were deceived.
After careful investigation, after the task force grasped the organizational structure and criminal facts of the gang, on June 20, the task force launched a centralized network collection operation, destroying the criminal gang producing and selling counterfeit drugs, destroying 3 counterfeiting dens, and arresting them. There were 8 criminal suspects, 2.67 million yuan of funds involved in the case were seized, more than 2,000 kilograms of counterfeit drugs involved in the case were seized, and a large number of crime tools were confiscated.
According to the police of the task force, the pills produced by the gang have not obtained any relevant approval documents.
Because these pills contain a large amount of hormones and analgesic drugs or can temporarily relieve pain, they create the illusion of "immediate effect" for the elderly, but in fact they have no effect, but will delay the best time for treatment, leading to aggravation of the disease, long-term use is even more Can cause serious damage to human organs and immune system.
Chongqing Morning News reporter Song Jian