"Make one trillion yuan in five years", "You can make money every day by investing"...
From May 6 to mid-June 2020, a reporter from the Beijing News went undercover in the WeChat group of members of the "Chi You Kang Brigade" for more than a month. Similar slogans are instilled by people every day, and people are constantly paying money to join the membership, officially joining the trillion-dollar health industry of "Chiyoukang Brigade", looking forward to five times the rebate, and promotions based on headcount.
The operator of the "Chiyou Kanglv" health investment platform is Hunan Qianrun Xinrui Health Technology Group Co., Ltd., a company established in 2018 that established this investment platform in the name of tourism development and tea production and sales.
On the "Chiyoukanglv" health investment platform, members who "invest" 30,000 yuan can get a bunch of health-preserving dark tea and selenium-rich tablets. "But who would want this tea? Everyone is here for the 5 times rebate and the commission for recruiting people to join the membership." An insider of the platform said that these worthless teas are just used to deceive others. In addition to investment funds, the platform In addition to the 5 times rebate, the more important profit model is the commission for recruiting people to join the membership: if you recruit a friend to join the membership, you can receive 35% of the membership fee, and if a friend recruits another person to join the membership, you can receive an additional 20%.
A reporter from the Beijing News found that the actual controller of "Chi Youkang Brigade" is Yang Xiangfei, the former head of Hunan Huaselenium Times Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Huaselenium Times). Many of the senior members of his team are the original members, and the trading model is also different. Highly similar. In April 2017, Huaselenium Times was recognized as a pyramid selling organization by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau of Shayang County, Jingmen City, Hubei Province, with the amount involved reaching 350 million yuan.
After Yang Xiangfei and others were investigated and punished for their involvement in pyramid schemes, they formed a team again to manipulate the capital market. "Chiyoukang Brigade" insiders said that from the beginning of March to mid-June, the "Chiyoukang Brigade" had held seven hundred-person meetings.
html In early March, Chi Youkang Brigade organized an inspection tour for hundreds of students in Xianhu Village, Hunan Province, and held a fund-raising meeting for some students to take a group photo. Photo provided by the interviewee At the fund-raising meeting held by Chiyoukang Brigade Team in Hunan, a large number of students paid money on the spot to buy "selenium-rich" products to join the meeting. Picture provided by the interviewee
A hundred-member investment group that visited the village
htmlOn April 27, seven buses with banners "Welcome leaders from all over the country - Qianrun Xinrui Group" drove into Anhua County, Hunan Province Zhangjiaxian Lake Village, Le'an Town.The village held a welcome meeting for these guests who called themselves "Hunan Qianrun Xinrui Group Chiyoukang Brigade Inspection Group". Cheng Hualiang, a native of Sichuan who was invited by his friends to "make money together", is also a member of the inspection team.
In mid-March this year, Cheng Hualiang, who ran a furniture store, could not bear the losses and was forced to transfer the store to repay the loan. At this time, a friend came to him and recommended an entrepreneurial project with "huge profit potential", saying that this "only makes money, no losses, every day" "Get money." After a brief communication between the two, Cheng Hualiang decided to take advantage of the improvement of the epidemic to rush to Anhua County, Hunan Province from Sichuan with his friends for a field trip.
The official website of the Anhua County People's Government introduces the industries of Zhangjiaxian Lake Village: "Special leisure agricultural tourism village, development of tea planting."
Chiyoukang Brigade introduced to the members of the inspection team from all over the country that "the group will build a tea planting base here and create a resort mountain resort integrating leisure and entertainment." The lecturer of the
inspection team led Cheng Hualiang and other team members up the mountain to visit the tea gardens, and explained how profitable it would be to invest in selenium-rich black tea.
After the inspection, everyone was arranged to attend a lecture in a venue with hundreds of seats.
This gathering was called the "Market Elite Conference". The lecturer took the stage and preached, "As long as you keep attracting people and pay the money, you can get commissions. As long as everything goes well, you can earn 1 trillion yuan in five years."
Listen here , Cheng Hualiang felt that this inspection was not like a health investment, but like a pyramid scheme.
Cheng Hualiang, who was suspicious, privately asked the staff of the local village committee and learned that "the company just spent tens of thousands of yuan to rent a piece of land in Zhangjiaxian Lake Village, and then brazenly declared that it would build the No. 1 village in the world and the No. 1 village in the world." One city." Cheng Hualiang recalled that a staff member of the village committee once told him, "In fact, the company only gave a deposit and no rent."
A staff member of the Party and Government Office of the People's Government of Le'an Town, Anhua County told the Beijing News reporter, "The inspection team from Hunan Qianrun Xinrui Company came to Zhangjiaxianhu Village and seemed to be talking about investment projects. It was unclear what they were doing specifically. . "
On-site staff collected cash from students. Chi Youkang Brigade WeChat group
Crazy "order brushing" meeting
Recalling the on-site seminar of "Chi You Kang Brigade", Cheng Hualiang lamented "crazy".
Cheng Hualiang recalled that the lecturer's The opening statement is to create "the best selenium in China and the best tea in the world." "
" If you are worried about your parents' quality of life declining or your parents leaving you, then should we work hard to make money now? "
" wants! "The students in the audience said in unison.
In order to make the students believe in the legitimacy of the project, the project leader Yang Xiangfei kept emphasizing on the stage that it was precisely because of the support from the country that he dared to gather hundreds of people for a meeting during the epidemic. It was also because of the epidemic that more Highlighting health as the best investment direction.
“After the inspection, the lecturer began to talk about the capital market, constantly emphasizing health management and 5 times profit. "Cheng Hualiang recalled, "Many people paid on the spot, some of which cost hundreds of thousands in one go. "
After listening to the instructor's speech, Zhang Wenfeng also "consumed" 20,000 yuan.
Zhang Wenfeng introduced that the so-called consumption is actually paying money to join the membership, and then paying 2,000 yuan or 3,000 yuan for a serving of dark tea and selenium-enriched tablets as entities The products are returned to the students. Zhang Wenfeng said that the project has a fund form for rebates, and investors who have paid can have four ways to earn money.
Many investors told the Beijing News reporter that these four ways are consumption. Revenue, sales revenue, management revenue, leadership revenue.
"Consumption revenue is the rebate you get after investing money. Sales revenue is actually the commission you get after recruiting people. Management revenue is becoming a leader after recruiting people, and then you can get new members. of commission. "Cheng Hualiang and Zhang Wenfeng said that many people pay to join the membership just for the five times rebate and high commission.
Whenever someone pays money, there will be suona and cheers at the scene, and in the WeChat group of the inspection team members , there will also be assistants who will post messages to congratulate the members for "getting on the wealth train."
"They have established dozens of WeChat groups, and the number of people in several groups can reach 500," Cheng Hualiang told the Beijing News reporter, "Chi You. Most of the students in "Kanglu" are elderly people. After they come to attend the class, many of them pay money to "consume."
After the nearly two-hour meeting, the students who paid the money took photos in batches. Under the arrangement, they shouted in unison: "Chi Youkang created a miracle and earned one trillion yuan in five years! "
Cheng Hualiang said that after a meeting, hundreds of people paid money, plus those who asked the staff to pay after the meeting, the funds involved were estimated to be several million.
In mid-May, one of the 500 people in Chi Youkang's WeChat In the group, the group leader posted a short video of the meeting, and a company employee issued the slogan "Chi Youkang Lv will create a miracle and make one trillion yuan in five years." Chi Youkang Lv WeChat group
is a pyramid scheme covered by black tea.
According to the "Chi You Kang Travel" model, you can become a member by paying a minimum of 2,000 yuan. The company gives students a set of dark tea and selenium-rich tablets.
"The market price of these dark tea and selenium-rich tablets is no more than 100 yuan." " Cheng Hualiang told the Beijing News reporter that he had checked the tea provided to members by "Chiyoukang Travel" at the local market in Anhua and online. "A piece of black tea costs dozens of yuan."
"Those so-called guests and lecturers The main story is about the capital operation of pure capital. No one wants the black tea and selenium-enriched tablets distributed. "Ma Xiankun, who is already the director of "Chiyoukang Travel", said that members who invest money pay more attention to the 5 times profit and the level-by-level money-sharing game.
In the consumption income of "Chiyoukang Travel", newcomers can pay 2,000 If you join the membership with RMB, RMB 6,000, RMB 10,000, RMB 20,000, or RMB 30,000, you will receive RMB 10,000, RMB 30,000, RMB 50,000, RMB 100,000, and RMB 150,000 respectively after calculating the 5 times rebate.However, these rebate investors can only recover them based on the number of days, and the corresponding fixed rates are 0.6%, 0.7%, 0.8%, 0.9%, and 1% respectively, that is, members can get 12 yuan, 42 yuan, 80 yuan, and 80 yuan respectively every day. 180 yuan, 300 yuan. Taking an investment of 30,000 yuan as an example, the daily rebate of 1% is 300 yuan, which can be obtained for 500 days, totaling 150,000 yuan.
In addition to consumption rebate income, sales income, management income and leadership income are what Zhang Wenfeng and other "investors" value more.
Regarding sales revenue, the lecturer’s explanation is: “Every time a new person comes in and the transaction is successful, the upline will extract 35% of the fee paid by the new person as a reward. This situation is called direct promotion income; if the new person comes in through a friend or the third When three people recruit members, he will get 20% of the income, which is called indirect income."
Management benefits and leadership benefits are benefits that can only be obtained after investors become a higher level.
According to the traditional MLM hierarchy and advancement system, Chiyoukang Brigade is also divided into five levels including students, namely: student, director, manager, director, and president. Different levels can extract different proportions of commissions from subordinates. .
Anti-MLM expert Li Xu said that the membership and commission features of “Chi Youkang Brigade” are in line with the three major characteristics of MLM, namely paying entry fees, attracting people, and team compensation. “Many people know MLM, and they are still stuck in the early days of MLM organizations. Among the money games that control personal freedom and claim to be supported by the state, many pyramid schemes have now turned into money games for investing in health or investing in certain industries. Although there are some commodity transactions, they are more of a way to evade supervision and investigation. ”
You Kaigui, a lawyer who has long been concerned about corporate legal issues, also said that judging from the internal capital structure of “Chiyoukanglv”, it is suspected of conducting capital operations in a pyramid scheme. "
Chi Youkang Brigade pulls people's heads to get commissions. The Chi Youkang Brigade's WeChat group
insiders are packaged as "heavyweight guests"
In addition to the lecturers using Success Learning to brainwash at the conference, the "Chi Youkang Brigade" also produced H5 posters , Invite "celebrities" and "successful people" to build momentum, attract more people to attend the platform, and then pay money.
At the several conferences held by "Chiyoukang Brigade", "heavyweight guests" attended each time. However, the Beijing News reporter checked and verified that the multiple identities of these guests were mostly fictitious. Ma Xiankun, who is already the director of the "Chiyoukang Brigade", told the Beijing News reporter, "The identities of these guests are exaggerated or fabricated. They are internal managers of the platform. "
"Chiyoukanglv"'s external publicity packages the "conference" as "5G New Retail" and "Platform Wins the Future Market Elite Conference."
Ma Xiankun said that the company does not belong to the financial industry and must avoid illegal activities. The operating companies of "Chiyoukanglv" are "Hunan Chiyoukanglv Cultural Industry Co., Ltd." and "Hunan Qianrun Xinrui Biotechnology Co., Ltd."; the above two corporate legal persons are suspected of raising funds. The representatives are Yang Taohui and Yang Xingyu; the company was established on March 2, 2020 and February 1, 2018 respectively.
industrial and commercial information shows that on November 20, 2019, "Hunan Qianrun Xinrui Biotechnology Co., Ltd." Zhou Zhiyun, one of the shareholders, established "Anhua Chiyou Hometown Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd.". Its business scope stipulates that "it is limited to using its own assets for tourism investment, and is not allowed to engage in equity investment, bond investment, or short-term financial investment." and carry out financial services such as fiduciary asset management for specific objects, and are not allowed to engage in deposit taking, fund-raising and collection."
"According to the company's business scope, there are no relevant financial projects, and there are no banking regulatory or securities regulatory commissions in its industrial and commercial information. "Relevant financial licenses, raising funds in this way is illegal to absorb public deposits," lawyer You Kaigui said. Even if the company involved has dark tea and selenium-rich products, judging from its capital market model, it may involve using legal means to obtain illegal funds. Benefits.
What is surprising is that the registered address of "Anhua Chiyou Hometown Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd." is the "Village Committee Office Building of Zhangjiaxianhu Village, Le'an Town, Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province."
According to statistics from a reporter from the Beijing News, from the beginning of March to the end of April, the "Chiyoukang Brigade" has gathered a large number of people in Le'an Town for "investment conferences" many times.
html On May 16, a Beijing News reporter called the Le'an Town People's Government. A staff member of the party and government office responded to the "Chi You Kang Brigade" rally and registration question: "I don't know whether to report it, and I can't comment on other matters." " and then hung up the phone.The big trader behind "Chiyoukang Brigade"
"The trader behind 'Chiyoukang Brigade', Yang Xiangfei, was once a pyramid scheme boss." An insider who has cooperated with Yang Xiangfei and participated in the "Hua Selenium Points" capital market said, In the spring of 2014, Yang Xiangfei gave up the coal sales business and successively established Hunan Huaselenium Health Industry Co., Ltd., Hunan Hueselenium Times Education Consulting Co., Ltd., Hunan Hueselenium Times Biotechnology Co., Ltd., and a series of companies with the name "Huashenium". of enterprises.
In the selenium era in China, Yang Xiangfei packaged himself as a selenium-enriched expert and shouted the slogan "Selenium supplementation for national health".
“Relying on false investment profits and high performance commissions, Huiseli Times recruits people to absorb member wealth,” this insider told the Beijing News reporter. “Nearly 100,000 investors have all been robbed of hundreds of millions of dollars. Huiselenium Times A large number of investors were deceived into bankruptcy through various methods.” Li Xu, an anti-MLM expert at
, said, “The MLM model of Huaselenium Points is similar to that of Chiyoukanglv. It also uses health products as a pretext, but in fact it is a pure capital operation to attract people and make rebates.”
According to Tianyancha information, in April 2017, Yang Xiangfei registered "Hunan Hua Selenium Times Education Consulting Co., Ltd." and the company was canceled on December 25, 2018. "During this period, Yang Xiangfei has been doing pyramid schemes," an insider told the Beijing News reporter. "After canceling the company, Yang Xiangfei still did not change his identity as the leader of the pyramid scheme, but organized a team to continue to control the funds."
China Judgment Document Online once There is information about Yang Xiangfei’s involvement in pyramid schemes.
On May 9, 2017, Hunan Hueselenium Times Biotechnology Co., Ltd. was suspected of pyramid schemes and was applied by the Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau of Shayang County, of Hubei Province to freeze funds. However, after review by the People's Court of Shayang County, Hubei Province, the respondent Hunan Huaselenium Times Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Yang Xiangfei, Zhou Baohong, Yang Xingyu, Cheng Qiuhua, and Li Xingxing used the "Huaselenium Times Dealer Management System" to engage in pyramid schemes.
In the end, the crisis-ridden China Selenium Times simply ran away, people left the building, and investors lost all their money.
Among the main persons whose accounts were applied for freezing are the company’s legal representatives Zhou Baohong, Yang Xiangfei and Yang Xingyu.
"Yang Xingyu, who was born in 1993, is Yang Xiangfei's son." An insider revealed that after Yang Xiangfei was investigated, he manipulated his son Yang Xingyu to register Hunan Qianrun Xinrui Biotechnology Co., Ltd. to continue the business. This is now the "Chiyoukang Brigade".
After the "Chi You Kang Brigade" conference, Cheng Hualiang consulted a lawyer friend from his hometown. The friend clearly told Cheng Hualiang that "this method is suspected of pyramid schemes" and asked him not to pay.
html At the end of April, Cheng Hualiang said goodbye to his friends and left Anhua, Hunan, returning to his hometown in Sichuan.Cheng Hualiang recalled that on the day he left Anhua, he persuaded his friend who had joined him to leave, but was rejected: "I know it is a pyramid scheme. As long as you make money, you can do it for a while."
(At the request of the interviewee, in the article Cheng Hualiang, Zhang Wenfeng, and Ma Xiankun are all pseudonyms)
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