China has thousands of years of culture, and 24 dynasties have left their brilliant chapters in history. At the same time, countless working people in ancient times have also left many exquisite works of art and cultural relics to modern people, which have gone through many years and have a very high value in modern times. Their research value is also incalculable, but the high value of cultural relics can sometimes lead to a crooked idea. In 2008, a national treasure that had been defrauded of 500 million yuan was revealed, and the fake cultural relics he made into 20,000 yuan were identified by five top experts as a market price worth 2.4 billion.
The person who forged the fraud was named Xie Genrong, who was born in 1960. Growing up in Huzhou, Zhejiang, for some reasons, Xie Genrong dropped out of school after finishing middle school. He didn't have anything to do after graduation, and when he was wandering around the border between China and Russia, he found that he could do clothing trade, so in the 80s of the last century, Xie Genrong began to do the road of clothing trade, and he should be one of the earliest people who made his fortune that year. Relying on the clothing trade, Comrade Xie soon had a net worth of tens of millions. In the mid-1990s, Comrade Xie's clothing could not be stopped, so he began to transform into a beer project.
While working on a beer project, he opened a company called Beijing Yanshan Walson Group and began to enter the real estate industry in 1995. His real estate career was doing well until 2002. Yan Linzhuang, president of a branch of China Construction Bank, and Zhao Feng, vice president, found that Xie Genrong's Walson Group was cheating on loans, so they approached Xie Genrong for advice. But Xie Genrong had already prepared and showed them the fake materials. After that, Comrade Xie took them to an exhibition hall, which is not simple, and there are two golden jade robes in it.
The golden jade garment was mainly produced in the Han Dynasty and was used by the emperors of the Han Dynasty and high-ranking nobles. This is not only a symbol of the wearer's status, but also extremely expensive, the jade robe is made of gold or silver thread, copper wire, the whole is composed of jade. In hebei, two pieces were unearthed from the tombs of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan jing in Hebei, and his wife, and it was not only expensive in terms of materials, but also in the production process of golden jade clothes, and it was not easy to make a set. Moreover, the golden jade coat is unique to China, and less than 20 have been found so far, so you can imagine how high its value is.
I have to say that Xie Genrong's two golden jade coats are estimated to have stunned the two bank presidents, which are top national treasures. Comrade Xie looked at them stunned and said triumphantly: How? Do I have these two golden robes and need to cheat loans? These two pieces were expertly identified and are worth up to 2.4 billion. Yan Linzhuang looked at it, and it was really an appraisal report signed by five top domestic antique appraisers, so they also thought that these two golden jade robes were real, and then they distributed a lot of funds to Xie Genrong in the days that followed.
In 2003, Comrade Xie, who lived by fraudulent loans, was even selected for the rich list. In 2005, the rich list also showed that Xie Genrong's personal assets reached 700 million, which was actually borrowed from the bank. In 2003, the sub-branch made two more acceptance drafts for his company of 50 million yuan each. But things always come to light one day, in March 2008, the matter was investigated, the first to be arrested were Xie Genrong and Yan Linzhuang, and by the time of the crime, there were still 540 million yuan of loans that had not been repaid.
The two golden jade robes were also confirmed to be fake, and the five top experts were real, but they did not even open the glass cover containing the golden jade coat. The two golden jade robes were made by Xie Genrong for more than 20,000 yuan, and it is said that he gave these experts hundreds of thousands of yuan in evaluation fees. These worthless cultural relics, with the proof of experts, have become treasures worth 2.4 billion.
In the end, Xie Genrong was sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscated all his property in the first instance. Xie Genrong also retorted a bit and launched an appeal. In September 2011, the second instance trial was conducted, and it was found that Xie Genrong had indeed deceived the trust of the bank by relying on two forged cultural relics, not only guaranteeing the previous 660 million yuan loan, but also obtaining a loan of 5,000 yuan and a bank acceptance draft of 450 million yuan. The bank executives involved were basically sentenced to prison terms and fined, and as for the experts, Xie Genrong did not tell the experts about the intention of the assessment report, and there was no evidence that they had inflated the value of the antiques, so they did not need to be held responsible.