Recently, in accordance with the unified command and deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, the public security organs filed a case to investigate the "Plus Token platform" network pyramid scheme, and successively arrested all 27 major criminal suspects and 82 key members of the case who had fled abroad, completely destroying this A huge multinational network MLM organization entrenched at home and abroad. This case is the first online pyramid scheme that used Bitcoin and other digital currencies as a trading medium to be detected by the public security organs. It involved more than 2 million participants, with more than 3,000 hierarchical relationships, and the total value of digital currencies involved exceeded 40 billion yuan.
(Reporter Shan Lu's report in Beijing comes from Gao Yuhui, editor of the Ministry of Public Security)
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]