China News Service, September 25. According to a report by the Overseas Chinese News Network, recently, the case of Tina, a Chinese in Irvine, California, was robbed of foreign exchange exchange.
In fact, this case is only one of the cases related to foreign exchange. The Chinese lawyer Liu Longzhu in Los Angeles also introduced a number of similar cases, including "foreign exchange fraud" and "money laundering" cases. He also committed the "crime of money laundering" in a vague way.
Liu Longzhu said that in Tina's case, the gangster dressed up as a "student" in order to let the victim relax his vigilance. Obviously, the other party achieved his goal.
In some cases of "scam foreign exchange", scammers pretended to be big money, drove a Ferrari, and intentionally or unintentionally revealed to the victim that he had millions of assets, giving the victim the impression of a "rich man" and adding "friends" "Introduction", the result disappeared after WeChat transfer.
The friend turned around and explained that they were just a one-on-one friend and had exchanged money with him, but they didn't realize that the small money exchange was just the "credit" accumulated by the scammer to catch the big fish.
In another case, Lawyer Liu introduced that a Los Angeles Chinese Mr. Qian (a pseudonym) exchanged a sum of U.S. dollars a month ago. The process went smoothly. He was neither deceived nor robbed, but was approached by the FBI and said he Suspected of "money laundering," confused Mr. Qian.
"My renminbi is a legitimate income remitted from China, so why is the money laundered? "It turns out that his renminbi is okay, but the dollars he exchanged for it were the proceeds of drug trafficking from criminal gangs.
As a result, the US dollars that Mr. Qian exchanged were not only confiscated, but he himself was also imprisoned for this, and he was investigated by the police.
Lawyer Liu said that the crime of money laundering depends on the role played by the person involved, the amount of money laundered, whether it is illegal income, whether it is related to drug trafficking, and whether there is a criminal record, etc., the defendant will be sentenced to 5 to 20 years in prison.
In Mr. Qian’s case, although he did not know that the other party’s money was not clean, this could not be a reason for exoneration.
His lesson tells us that although currency exchange itself is not illegal, you must find out whether the other party’s source of dollars is legal, otherwise you will be guilty of committing money laundering like Mr. Qian. Not only will you be jailed, Also spend a lot of money to ask a lawyer to file a lawsuit to mitigate the crime.
(Gao Rui)