The relationship between actor Tao Hong (left) and Zhang Ting (right) is also very close.
Lin Ruiyang.
Lin Zhiling has endorsed TST Court's secret products.
"Just let you play with your life to pull people, play with your life to fission." On December 30, 2021, Li Yue (pseudonym), who had been engaged in agency work in the "TST Court Secret" for 4 years and achieved the level of "chairman", introduced his internal operation routine to nandu reporters: after "opening a card" for 100 people (that is, letting others become registered members of the TST court secret App), he could become the "chairman" by making 100,000 performances for three consecutive months; constantly pulling people's heads and hoarding goods to earn money for "children and grandchildren". However, she said that the so-called "chairman" and "high salary" were deliberately made up, and she "did not earn money in the end."
A few days ago, the investigation of the suspected pyramid scheme of the artist Zhang Ting and her husband Lin Ruiyang's company continued to arouse concern. The Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, confirmed that Shanghai Darway Trading Co., Ltd. (the operator of the "TST Court Secret" ) has applied to the court to take preservation measures in accordance with the law because it used financial institutions to transfer or conceal funds involved in pyramid schemes, and the case is under further investigation.
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The superior said that just doing retail does not make money, you have to "open the card"
Li Yue, a former agent of TST, told Nandu Reporter that she began to act as an agent for TST in 2016 and had already achieved the level of "chairman" when she left in early 2021. Li Yue recalled that when she first joined in 2016, she sent a circle of friends for two consecutive days to promote the product, and then her superiors told her that she did not make money just doing retail, but had to "open a card". The so-called "opening card" is to let others become registered members of the TST Court Secret App. "So he buys things and you have money to earn, he introduces friends to 'open cards', and you still have money to earn."
Only the purchase of 2500 yuan of products has the right to "open a card" for others. After "opening a card" for a friend, Li Yue was pulled to the group of the upper family, and she pulled her friend into her group and forwarded the circle of friends copy in the group. Li Yue said that her upper family still has the upper family, and the upper family of the upper family also has the North China region where she is located.
A few months later, Li Yue had opened forty or fifty cards, but still hadn't earned any money. At this time, the upper family told her that only when she is the "founder" and "chairman" can she buy a house and a car, "there are endless generations of children and grandchildren, as long as they buy things, they can get commissions." The upper family told her that the condition for being the "chairman" was to "open cards" for 100 people. In those two months, Li Yue "desperately" "opened a card" for others, her husband said that she was trapped in a pyramid scheme, and Li Yue retorted that the boss was a star, "How can people do pyramid schemes?"
However, after "opening cards" for 100 people, Li Yue did not become the "chairman". Her upper family told her that she still needed three consecutive months, together with her "sons" next family, to make at least 100,000 yuan per month performance, and passed the company's assessment. Li Yuesui opened a credit card and Huabei to stock up on a large number of goods. Four months later, she became the "chairman" and then added the "boss" WeChat.
Li Yue told Nandu reporters that there were "bosses" meetings in the group every day, and later she found that it was not the boss at all, "all of them were employees of their company, and they made a boss's avatar impersonate." In addition to the "elite group", TST also has "million groups", "tens of millions", "billions of groups", "let you play with your life to pull people, play with your life to fission to make money." ”
"Chairman" and "high salary" are deliberately fabricated
Li Yue, who became the "founder" and "chairman", is not easy, because there are also assessments, "if you can't complete the performance, you still can't earn money, if you want to make money, you have to desperately deceive others." Li Yue later learned that the so-called "chairman" and "high salary" were deliberately made up, and some people would add a "0" after the real salary number, and then take a screenshot and forward. "That's all fake, anyway, I don't see anyone around to buy a house and a car."
In order to complete the performance, Li Yue hoarded a large number of goods, and then sold at a low price, "in the end did not earn money." Li Yue said that every month you have to complete 400,000 performance to get 4.0 or 4.5 rebates, the higher the performance, the higher the rebate, and the monthly performance can not be less than 200,000. The performance includes both her own sales and hoards, and it is cleared at the end of each month.
Li Yue told Nandu reporters that TST also often does activities, in the name of "the lowest price of the year" and "only selling for a few hours", in disguise, to let agents stock up on a large number of goods. "It's all kinds of routines for you, let you hoard goods, say what 'zero risk' and 'zero hoarding', in fact, are all fake." Li Yue initially hoarded more goods, and later only hoarded a few tens of thousands of yuan per month, "just to make up for performance." After a large number of stockpiles, she could only sell them at a low price.
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He was once the shanghai Qingpu tax champion
Nandu previously reported that according to industrial and commercial information, Shanghai Darway Trading Co., Ltd. was established in 2013, its business scope includes import and export business, cosmetics, daily necessities, etc., holding the brand as "TST Court Secret", which is officially founded by Lin Ruiyang and Zhang Ting.
On December 29, 2021, a "Reply on the Verification Letter" issued by the Yuhua District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, showed that "according to a number of public reports and verifications, on June 5, 2021, the bureau filed an investigation into the suspected pyramid scheme of Shanghai Darway Trading Co., Ltd. and reported it to the superior step by step." The bureau said in the letter that because the company used financial institutions to transfer or conceal funds involved in pyramid schemes, the bureau had applied to the people's court to take preservation measures in accordance with the law, and the case was currently under further investigation.
Li Xu, the sender of the verification letter and the head of Li Xu's anti-MLM anti-fraud team, told Nandu reporters that he had received a lot of inquiries about the "secrets of the TST court" before, and recently an informed person provided clues that the case had been determined. In order to verify the authenticity of the matter, a letter of verification was sent to the Shijiazhuang Yuhua District Municipal Supervision Bureau to inquire. Li Xu said that his team learned from the regulatory authorities that the funds of the company involved were frozen up to 600 million yuan, which were frozen in two parts, 300 million yuan of the main company and 300 million yuan of an agent and team leader.
Nandu reporter noted that according to the news released by the official WeChat account "Green Qingpu" of the Information Office of the Qingpu District Government of Shanghai, Dalway Company has been listed on the list of "Top 100 Excellent Enterprises" and "Top 100 Taxpayer Enterprises" in Qingpu District, Shanghai, where its company is registered, for many times. In 2018, Dalway became the tax champion in Qingpu District. In 2021, Shanghai Yuedao E-commerce Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dalway Company, also won the tenth place in the Top 100 Outstanding Enterprises in Qingpu District.
There are more than 100 affiliated companies
Nandu reporter noted that in addition to the Dalway Company, the commercial territory of Zhang Ting and his wife is quite large.
According to the data of Tianyancha, from the perspective of equity structure, There are nine major shareholders of Dalway Company, according to the order of subscribed capital contributions, the top three shareholders of the company are Shanghai Guangpeng Investment Management Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Guangpeng"), Shanghai Shengji Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Shengji") and Shanghai Shangyang Investment Management Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Shangyang"), holding 36.17%, 31.85% and 12.61% of the shares respectively. Nandu reporter combed and found that the legal representatives of Shanghai Guangpeng and Shanghai Shengji are Zhang Shuqin (that is, Zhang Ting), Lin Ruiyang serves as a director of Shanghai Shangyang, and the affiliated companies of Zhang Ting and his wife are basically directly or indirectly controlled by the above three companies.
In addition to firmly controlling Dalway Company, as of now, there are 90 and 69 affiliated companies of Zhang Ting and Lin Ruiyang respectively, 77 and 53 companies with him as the legal representative, and 11 jointly related companies of the couple.
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Many celebrities have stood for their products
Nandu reporter combed and found that while frantically recruiting agents, the TST court secretly invited many entertainment industry people to carry out huge publicity. At the TST Court Secret 7th Dealer Conference and Star Concert held in October 2021, Wang Dongcheng, Xin and Chen Yiru appeared as special guest stars. At the 2020 distribution conference, stars such as Wang Dongcheng and Tao Hong also appeared.
Ming Dao and Zhang Ting's husband and wife have a close relationship. A Nandu reporter searched for Mingdao's real name, Lin Chaozhang, and found that the legal representative of Shanghai Tingxuan Import and Export Co., Ltd., of which Mingdao is a shareholder, was Lin Ruiyang. The relevant WeChat public account tweet shows that Mingdao also appeared in Zhang Ting's live broadcast room to cooperate with the brand live broadcast with goods.
In addition, Lin Chiling and others have also endorsed TST Ting's secret products, Fan Bingbing, Liu Tao, Zhang Xinyu, He Jie and many other celebrities have also posted pictures and texts of their use of TST TST Ting's secret products on social platforms, and Xu Zheng also publicly used the brand mask when participating in variety shows.
The relationship between actor Tao Hong and Zhang Ting is also very close. In 2014, when he forwarded the promotion weibo of the TST Court secret brand, Zhang Ting thanked Tao Hong; in 2016, the TST Court secretly held an elite summit forum, and Tao Hong also attended. In the TST Court Secret Official Mall, Tao Hong was once known as the "Founder of actress", and another "Founder of Actress" was Zhang Ting.
Legal liability depends on the circumstances
According to the national enterprise credit information publicity system, Tao Hong was an investor in Shanghai Taobuting Culture Media Co., Ltd. and withdrew on November 15, 2021, but the company under his name still holds shares in Taobuting. Zhang Ting's husband, Lin Ruiyang, was a director and legal representative of the company and retired as a director and representative on 18 September 2020. At present, Lin Ruiyang is still the general manager of the company.
On December 30, 2021, Zhao Zhanzhang, deputy director of Beijing Yunjia Law Firm and special researcher of the Intellectual Property Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, told Nandu reporters that in the case of Zhang Ting's suspected pyramid scheme, whether Tao Hong, who is a shareholder of the same company, needs to bear legal responsibility depends on the specific circumstances.
Zhao Zhanzhan said that shareholders and the company are independent legal subjects, and shareholders generally do not bear legal responsibility for the company's suspected pyramid schemes, unless the shareholders are also involved in the company's operations and are directly responsible for the pyramid scheme activities. If shareholders, especially star shareholders, participate in publicity activities as advertising spokespersons, they must comply with the provisions of the Advertising Law on advertising spokespersons.
Zhao Zhanzhang reminded that according to the Advertising Law, advertising spokespersons who recommend and prove goods and services in advertisements should be based on facts and in accordance with the law, and must not make recommendations or certificates for goods they have not used or services they have not received. If the advertising spokesperson has not actually used the product endorsed, or has not fulfilled the obligation to review the false advertisement, it needs to bear legal responsibility for it.
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Some agents publicly call the product "bad face"
With the help of the development of micro-business agencies and star platform effects, TST Court Secret has become a hot brand in the micro-business circle. However, the Nandu reporter noted that for many years, the TST court was secretly caught in negative storms such as poor product quality and "bad face". Many consumers have reported on social platforms that they have skin problems after using TST-related products, including agents who secretly use TST.
As early as February 2016, some netizens who called themselves the secret "gold card agent" of the TST court posted on Weibo that after 3 months of continuous use of the TST court secret products, there were problems such as rough skin, peeling skin, blushing, yellow water, and eyes that could not be opened. However, the TST court secret staff replied that it was the skin in the "detoxification".
The rumors of the "bad face" of TST's secret product gradually fermented, causing heated discussions. In September 2016, Zhang Ting also publicly responded to the matter, saying that it was not a whim to make his own TST mask, "honest work, down-to-earth business" For consumers' doubts, Zhang Ting said that due to the different skin types of users, they will have different reactions to cosmetics, her products are "compliant according to law, the three certificates are complete", and there are professional third-party inspection and quarantine agencies to do health and safety tests.
Awarded compensation for arrears of payment and malicious slander
In addition to the products are deeply involved in quality problems, the company behind it, Dalway, has also been awarded compensation several times for arrears of payment and commercial denigration.
Nandu reporter combed and found that Dalway Company had been awarded compensation for arrears of payment on many occasions. According to the judgment document network, in November 2019, Darway Company entrusted Shanghai Hesong Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hesong Company") to design the Dalwei Qingpu Museum, and the total design consultant fee of the project was 530,000 yuan, which was paid in 4 installments. After paying the first three installments of 444,000 yuan, Darway Company defaulted on the remaining amount of 106,000 yuan, and was sued by Hesong Company. In August 2021, the Shanghai Qingpu District Court ordered Darway Company to pay Hesong Company 80,000 yuan in service fees.
In addition, in November 2018, Dalway purchased 20,000 electric eyelash curl gift boxes from Shanghai Luanwei Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Luanwei Company"), totaling 370,000 yuan. In June 2019, Dalway purchased a cleanser data cable from Luanway with a total amount of 783.3 yuan. Subsequently, Dalway Company was sued by Luan wei Company for defaulting on the payment of goods totaling 365,000 yuan. The court finally ruled that Darway Company paid the above arrears to Luan Wei Company and paid liquidated damages.
Dalway has also been awarded compensation for commercially defaming competitors. According to the judgment document network, in 2015, Darway Company and Lin Ruiyang spread false information on Weibo and WeChat platforms that the live yeast mask products of Zhenjiang Muji Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Muji Company") were fakes, constituting commercial defamation. In 2020, the court of second instance ordered it to compensate Muji Company for economic losses of 150,000 yuan.
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Zhang Tinglin Ruiyang's multiple social platform accounts were blocked
On January 2, Nandu reporters noticed that Zhang Ting's Douyin account was banned from publishing works until January 16. At the same time, Zhang Ting and her husband Lin Ruiyang's Weibo has also been in a state of silence.
According to Douyin's explanation of penalties for violations, Zhang Ting's account was prohibited from publishing works due to violations of the relevant provisions of the Douyin Community Self-Discipline Convention, and will be unsealed on January 16, 2022, because the violation is not in line with community norms.
On the same day, nandu reporters noticed that Zhang Ting and her husband Lin Ruiyang's Weibo was also in a state of silence for violating relevant laws and regulations. The secret official Microblog of the TST Court, the brand founded by the two, was also banned.
There are still agents who sell goods live
A few days ago, Nandu reporter searched for the brand "TST" founded by Zhang Ting and Lin Ruiyang on a short video live broadcast platform and found that there are still many agents selling goods in live broadcasting. After randomly clicking into one of the live broadcast rooms, Nandu reporter found that some agents said in response to netizens' questions that "look at the time to speak, the facts will give you the answer." In another "TST" live broadcast room, there are also agents who say that "buy is earned".
According to the official website of TST, its full name is TIN'SECRET, which is a brand of Shanghai Darway Trading Co., Ltd., founded in 2013 by Lin Ruiyang and Zhang Ting, with cosmetics and skin care products as the main category. In the promotional information released on its official website, it also said that its product "Live Yeast New Life Mask Milk" sold 100,000 sets of 600,000 bottles in just one hour during the Double Eleven period.
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Written by: Nandu reporter Wu Jialing Yang Tianzhi Fang Shiqi intern Zeng Han An Ziyi