On May 7, Peng Jin, deputy director of the public security bureau of Changde city, Hunan province, announced to the public that after more than three months of continuous and meticulous work, Changde city and the public security organs at the Jinshi level jointly fought, successfully cracked a province and city mainly in Xi’an and Shenzhen, radiating more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, including Hunan, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Beijing, under the guise of nation, world and ecology, pull the head, develop offline, seek benefits, and involve a large pyramid selling group with more than 0.1 billion yuan of funds.
Previously, the public security organs of Changde and Jinshi sent more than 130 policemen in total, divided into 5 arrest action teams, moving thousands of kilometers, respectively in Xi’an, Shenzhen, Hefei, with the cooperation of Hangzhou and other police, the arrest was carried out at the same time spooling on December 14, 2016.30 suspects were arrested respectively, and the funds involved in the arrest were frozen to more than 5,000 yuan, 2 luxury cars and 2 luxury houses, seized more than 200 computers, more than 10,000 copies of pyramid selling materials and reading books, and more than 100 bank cards. On May 5th, the procuratorate filed a public prosecution against Wang and others for the crime of organizing and leading pyramid selling.
How do many members fall into the pyramid selling trap step by step? Why did they go crazy after being brainwashed? What kind of hardships have the police experienced? What are the little-known stories behind this case? The reporter learned from Changde City Public Security Bureau that the investigation of this super-large pyramid selling case was at the end.
The post-80s elaborate network pyramid scheme
After graduating from a university, Wang from Anhui province after 80’s, he started the tea and jewelry business successively. Because he majored in finance, although his business was not full of wind and water, he lived without worry, however, he was always not satisfied with the current situation. In January, 2013, Gu, his mistress, registered Waldo company in Xi’an, and the Shell ran for more than 2 years. In June 2015, Wang Mou yuan purchased domain names and “P2P credit system” software online, rented servers, and built the “world UnionPay” online platform with Waldo company as the carrier, he has recruited 9 people, including Wan and Zhang. On August 18 of the same year, the “world UnionPay” network platform was officially launched. Without any legal projects and industrial operations, a grand pyramid selling network scam was carefully planned.
In order to make the franchisees firmly believe in the company, Wang will decorate the office rooms rented in the prosperous areas of Shenzhen and Xi’an with an annual rent of nearly 100 million yuan. At the same time, Wang also registered 7 shell companies, both registered companies and online platforms, making people feel that Wang is a well-funded, advanced concept, the leader of “mass entrepreneurship” with advanced technology. Wang Mou also carefully packaged himself. He drove more than 100 million luxury cars to lobby back and forth in more than 20 provinces and cities across the country as a successful model. He was a graduate student of a famous school with a monthly income of tens of millions of yuan. Wang also carried out “luxury packaging” for his mistress gu MOU, who was only a junior high school student and became a doctor of returnee finance, driving a luxury car with more than 100 million yuan, I bought luxury houses in Shenzhen and Xi’an. Most of the franchisees are confused by this illusion, believing that as long as they follow “general manager Wang”, not only their quality of life can be greatly improved in a short period of time, but also they can accumulate objective wealth for their descendants, so that more than 400 million people in more than 20 provinces and cities across the country embrace the dream of making a fortune and invest in joining the “world Cloud Alliance” one after another “.
Defrauding more than 0.1 billion yuan of network service fee
“Brainwashing” is the main way for pyramid selling organizations to control the spirit of franchisees. The outside of lies is always wrapped with a beautiful “coat”. According to Dai Zhigang, vice mayor of jinshi and municipal public security director, the leader of pyramid selling described the big data platform of world cloud association with great spirit, advocating that as long as he entered the World cloud Association “, will receive many” benefits “, such as equity delivery, physical supermarket delivery, life-long pension
According to the police, these “benefits” are purely false, just a cover used by pyramid selling organizations to fool members. “World Cloud Alliance” has neither specific products nor practical projects, which is purely “White Wolf with empty gloves”.
In fact, at the beginning, Wang came to the stage with the brand of “world UnionPay”. Unexpectedly, after only three months of operation, he received an infringement letter from a bank lawyer requesting to change his name. In desperation, Wang mousui changed the name of “world UnionPay” to “World Yunlian”, changed the soup without changing the medicine, continued to run their “grand project”, and widely publicized it to lure others to register, the membership fee charged by using the “network maintenance fee” is adjusted from 20 yuan to 128 yuan.
In March 2016, Wang arranged Zhang as the legal representative of the company and Zhang as the general manager of the company. Because Wang was suspected of illegal pyramid selling for many times and was blacklisted by the administrative department for industry and commerce before he could register and establish a company, he arranged Wan to register and establish Xi’an Juyun company, move Waldo company to Juyun company for practical operation. In April, 2016, Juyun company was repeatedly investigated by the local industrial and commercial department for suspected pyramid selling activities. Wang held a meeting among the company’s core staff Zhang, Wan and Yu, and decided to go to Shenzhen to develop and continue to organize and lead pyramid selling activities. In order to make members believe more in the strength of “world Cloud Union”, stimulate the enthusiasm of developing offline members, and prevent the company from terminating cooperation by using third-party payment platform companies, which hinders the pyramid selling business of “world Cloud Union, later, seven companies including” World cloud Association (Shenzhen) network technology “,” World cloud Association (Shenzhen) venture capital “and” World cloud Association (Shenzhen) news media “were successively established, sign contracts with third-party payment platforms in different company names. In this way, Wang MOU is the actual controller, initiator, planner and manipulator of all pyramid selling companies. Gu, the mistress, is the legal representative of Waldo company and collects membership fees, which is the key personnel for organizing and implementing pyramid selling activities. Zhang Mou, Wan MOU, Yu Mou and others willingly became Wang Mou’s pyramid selling puppet, becoming the company’s legal representative, financial director, network technology director, etc. The gang charged more than 0.1 billion yuan for “network service fee”, while the actual cost of network maintenance was only more than 40 million yuan. The rest of the funds were either wasted, wasted, or fell into their own pockets.
Fighting for wisdom and courage and hard interrogation break through psychological defense line
On November 2, 2016, the municipal public security bureau received reports from the masses, led by Chen MOU from Wuling district and Cheng MOU from Tianjin city, and set up pyramid selling studios in Changde city to carry out pyramid selling activities, they charge each member a membership fee of 128 yuan by using the “network maintenance fee”, and there are many people involved in pyramid selling. The municipal public security bureau instructed the public security bureau to receive the preliminary investigation on Jinshi and received the case on November 4, 2016. During the preliminary investigation, it was found that Chen MOU, Cheng MOU and others had developed more than 2,000 members at 10 levels in Changde city, suspected of organizing, crime of leading pyramid selling activities. On November 23, the municipal public security bureau filed a case and dispatched the police of the Jinshi public security bureau to form a task force to conduct a project investigation. During the investigation, Wang mingmou, Gu MOU, Zhang Mou, Wan MOU and others formed a pyramid selling organization. They used the network platform of “World Cloud Federation” to organize and lead pyramid selling activities. According to the obtained data, its pyramid selling activities involve more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, with more than 100 million people at 93 levels. The pyramid selling activities carried out by Chen and others in Changde are part of the pyramid selling activities organized and led by Wang and others. On December 7, 2016, Changde city public security bureau submitted to the Hunan provincial public security bureau for the approval of Wang and others for organizing and leading pyramid selling activities. The next day, the Hunan Provincial Public Security Bureau approved the case.
After the case was filed, the police of the task force went back and forth to more than 20 provinces and cities nationwide for investigation and evidence collection. Due to the large number of people involved in the case, the internal structure of the pyramid selling system is complicated, the gang members are highly vigilant, the whereabouts are mysterious, and the anti-investigation ability is extremely strong. The bank accounts only used for pyramid selling activities are as high as over 1,000, the huge capital flow has brought unprecedented investigation difficulty to the police of the task force. However, the police of the task force were not discouraged. They slept in the morning and night, worked overtime to investigate and collect evidence, ate dry food and slept when they were hungry, and slept when they were sleepy. Some police still insisted on working because they were not satisfied with the acclimatization and were sick, overcome many unfavorable factors, with tenacious will and excellent skills, through more than one month of rigorous investigation, the police of the task force finally found out the operation mode, organizational structure, the criminal means and the scale involved basically locked the main criminal suspects and bank accounts. In the early stage, the investigation and evidence collection were solid, the criminal facts were basically clear, and chains were formed between the evidences. The time for arrest was ripe. The police of the task force actively reported to the headquarters, and the headquarters quickly arranged the police force to arrest.
Most of the people involved were post-80 s and post-90 s with high educational background and intelligence quotient. They commanded by remote control and had a wide range of activities, which made the investigation and arrest work more difficult. In order to ensure the safety of the arrest, the headquarters conducted a precise troop arrangement. On January 12, 2017, the public security organs of Changde and Jinshi sent more than 130 police forces, divided into five arrest action teams, and traveled thousands of kilometers in Xi’an, Shenzhen, Hefei, with the cooperation of Hangzhou and other police, a unified arrest of spooling was carried out. When Wang was preparing to arrest the suspect in the battlefield of Shenzhen, Wang had already flew from Shenzhen to Anhui. When he was preparing to arrest the suspect in the battlefield of Anhui, Wan took a plane from Anhui to Xi’an, in every battlefield, this state of cross-provincial migration has emerged, bringing another severe challenge to the arrest work. The police of the capture group had to continue waiting. At the same time, at the scene of the seizure, some employees with unknown truth and brainwashed franchisees were unwilling to leave, and the police had to do their ideological work with painstaking efforts. After 72 hours of day and night fighting, good news came from each battlefield. 30 suspects, including Wang, Gu, Wan and Zhang, were arrested one by one.
Most of the main criminal suspects are highly educated and belong to high IQ crimes. It is difficult to easily break their psychological defense line. The police of the task force collected nearly 100 files and carefully verified each piece of electronic evidence. Through the unremitting efforts of the police in the task force, they fought with the criminal suspects and tried hard, and finally completely destroyed the criminal suspect’s psychological defense line. Under the chain of a large amount of evidence, Wang denied everything to have to bow his head. The rest of the main suspects confessed to their criminal facts.
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on May 7, Peng Jin, deputy director of the public security bureau of Changde city, Hunan province, announced to the public that after more than three months of continuous and meticulous work, Changde city and the public security organs at the Jinshi level jointly fought, successfully cracked a place mainly in Xi’an and Shenzhen, radiating Hunan and Guangzhou