The police reported the "Xinyuan Sharing" pyramid scheme case: the name of the country was used falsely, and the amount involved exceeded 10 billion
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Original title: The police reported the "Xinyuan Sharing" pyramid scheme case: the name of the country was used falsely, and the amount involved exceeded 100 billion. 100 million
At the beginning of this year, the police in Danling County, Meishan City uncovered a huge pyramid scheme case. The "Xinyuan Sharing Economic Organization" (hereinafter referred to as "Xinyuan Sharing") headed by criminal suspect Yang Zhiwei and others falsely used the name of the country to set up the "National Sharing Economy Innovation Trading Center" operating platform, using high returns as bait to set up Through recommendation awards and management awards, we can vigorously develop members and seek huge profits.
The pictures in this article are all from Chengdu Business Daily
On July 23, Meishan police reported that the organization had hired "mathematicians" to calculate the "optimal investment ratio", hired more than 30 professional technical teams to build networks, and held various large-scale To promote the concert, he rented office space in many high-end office buildings in Chengdu, lived in high-end villas, and purchased several luxury cars, including a Rolls-Royce sedan worth over 10 million, which is considered a luxury.
The total number of members is as high as more than 220,000
The amount involved in the case is more than 10.2 billion yuan
Since August 2017, the Economic Investigation Department of the Public Security Bureau of Meishan City, Sichuan Province, based on reports from the masses, has discovered that the Meishan branch of Xinyuan Mall Shared Media located in Dongpo District, Meishan City, has been involved in pyramid schemes. After investigation, it was discovered that All criminal chains and clues of the company point to the "National Sharing Economy Innovation Transaction Demonstration Center" headquartered in Chengdu. On October 31, 2017, the Meishan City Public Security Bureau opened a case for investigation on Yang Zhiwei and others for allegedly organizing and leading pyramid schemes.
After investigation, since July 2016, Yang Zhiwei and others have illegally established the "National Sharing Economy Innovation and Transaction Demonstration Center", registered and established Sichuan Xinyuan Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Sichuan Xingxinyuan E-commerce Co., Ltd., and successively established them in many places across the country. Hundreds of shell affiliated companies with the prefixes "Xinyuan" and "Sharing" were established.
In order to rapidly expand the scale and achieve illegal purposes, Yang Zhiwei pretended to be the president of "Zhonglian Film and Television Co., Ltd." and carried out false propaganda with a central enterprise background, multiple large-scale projects and a large amount of assets, and held concerts and forums in many places across the country. Build momentum, establish successively 28 false industrial chains, including building materials, agriculture, mining, and media, use the guise of "national platform" and "sharing economy" as a gimmick, and use so-called consumer rebates as a gimmick to attract people to join the club through the Xinyuan shared mall network platform. Develop offline and obtain illegal benefits. In just over a year,
has developed members in 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) across the country, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and other places. As of the incident, the total number of members reached more than 220,000, and the amount involved was more than 10.2 billion yuan. Seriously endanger the country's social and economic order. The Provincial Public Security Department attached great importance to it and quickly established a task force led by the Economic Investigation Corps of the Provincial Department and sponsored by the Meishan City Public Security Bureau to comprehensively promote the investigation of the case.
Arrest scene
Yang Zhiwei and other 52 people were transferred for review and prosecution
After careful investigation and careful planning, on January 22, 2018, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and the Provincial Public Security Department, the task force mobilized more than 500 participating police forces to quickly attack in two groups, simultaneously at multiple points in Chengdu and Meishan. A concentrated arrest operation was carried out, and a total of 9 business locations of the criminal organization were sealed, and 82 suspects were successfully arrested. The main suspects, including Yang Zhiwei, the actual controller of the "Xinyuan Series" company, were criminally detained in accordance with the law.
After the criminal suspect was brought to justice, the task force focused on the center of "trial", with the goal of completing a solid case and a high-quality case, and concentrated its superior police forces to carry out the investigation of the case.Through interrogation of the ringleaders, core members of each industrial chain, and key personnel, the structure system, criminal facts, etc. of the MLM organization were ascertained. The main personnel, including the first offender Yang Zhiwei, all confessed to the criminal facts of organizing and leading MLM activities. ; Focusing on the criminal facts of the MLM organization and participants, carry out a comprehensive review of objective evidence such as documentary evidence, physical evidence, capital flow evidence, electronic evidence, etc., and conduct evidence through on-site inspection, electronic inspection, forensic accounting audit, forensic appraisal and other means fixed.
After fighting day and night, on February 28 this year, Yang Zhiwei and 25 key personnel including core members Si Xiaozheng and Tang Li were arrested by the procuratorate on suspicion of organizing and leading pyramid schemes.
During the "Xia'an" series of special operations, in order to promote the special litigation work, ensure the results of the operations, and turn this case into a high-quality case that can stand the test of law and history, the police of the special task force overcame difficulties and made unremitting efforts and went to Shandong , Guangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Hubei, Guizhou and other places to carry out investigation work, cooperate with the procuratorial organs to supplement and improve evidence materials, and carry out various preparations before transfer for prosecution in an intense and orderly manner. On July 16, 52 people in the case, headed by Yang Zhiwei, were transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution in accordance with the law on suspicion of organizing and leading pyramid schemes.
According to the police, this case is currently the pyramid scheme involving the largest number of people, the largest funds, and the widest area involving organizational leaders in Sichuan.
