is a very "old" fraud tactic that uses "throwing objects" to defraud people by pretending to be real. Unexpectedly, someone would "come back" and specifically target pawn shops to defraud.
On October 28, under the guidance of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Minhang police uncovered a company operating in six provinces and one city in East China that specialized in trading gold jewelry by using mixed metals to pass off as pure gold (commonly known as "gold wrapped in silver") to commit fraud. A criminal gang arrested 5 suspects with a case value of more than 400,000 yuan.
Caption: Personnel involved in the case are being interrogated. Picture provided by police
At the end of September this year, Minhang police analyzed the police situation and found a clue from several police reports: multiple pawn shop staff reported that some people used mixed metals to pretend to be pure gold, causing losses to the pawn shop. heavy.
The police immediately mobilized police forces to form a task force to carry out investigations. The investigation found that a man named Ji and his gang members pawned gold jewelry at many pawn shops in , Minhang District, . Ji was responsible for getting the goods and distributing the goods to four accomplices, and then the five people split up to commit fraud. The gold jewelry they traded was appraised by a professional organization and found to be necklaces, bracelets and other jewelry made by mixing real gold with affordable metals such as tin and lead. Due to the high level of counterfeiting technology, the criminal suspects easily deceived the preliminary identification of pawn shop staff and succeeded many times.
Caption: Counterfeit gold jewelry and related bills. Photo courtesy of police
After more than 50 days of investigation and evidence collection, the police figured out the criminal gang’s modus operandi and locked down relevant evidence. According to Xu Bin, deputy head of the criminal investigation detachment of the Minhang Public Security Bureau, the suspect in this case is familiar with the general processes and identification techniques of the gold trading industry, and has a good understanding of possible loopholes in the transaction process. The suspect's level of counterfeiting is also relatively high, and most workers in the gold trading industry have failed to detect it using simple identification methods. This is also an important reason why the gang has repeatedly succeeded. In addition, the suspect has a strong sense of counter-investigation when committing crimes, and constantly uses various means to evade police investigation, which makes investigation and crackdowns difficult.
The task force identified the identity information of multiple suspects suspected of committing "gold-in-silver" fraud. Through China Gold Association and Shanghai Gold Association, it issued reminders to the gold trading industry in the city and the country, reminding all localities to verify recent transactions. , once the above suspects are involved, conduct a secondary appraisal of the transaction items.
Caption: Counterfeit gold jewelry and related receipts. Picture provided by the police
Sure enough, there have been reports from the gold trading industry in Shanghai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places that the above-mentioned suspects have come to trade gold jewelry (identity information must be registered for gold transactions). After identification, most of the jewelry traded at that time was fake. The task force also reminded defrauded gold trading owners to immediately report the case to the local public security agency.
At the end of October, the task force carried out arrests in Qingtian, Jinhua, , Zhejiang, Taiyuan, Shanxi and other places, smashed the criminal gang suspected of "gold wrapped with silver" fraud, and captured the suspect Ji and five other people. So far, more than 40 similar cases have been verified in the city, and more than 90 similar cases involving six provinces and one city in East China, with a case value of more than 400,000 yuan. The task force is intensifying interrogations, digging deeper into the case, and striving to catch all the gang members who have not yet been brought to justice.
Correspondent Chen Chun Xinmin Evening News reporter Pan Gaofeng
Source: Xinmin Evening News
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