The man helped people "act" to trade virtual currency fraud, and was found to be an "accomplice" and sentenced

<h5>Mr. Wei, a citizen of Zhejiang, would buy so-called virtual currency to invest as soon as he had spare money, but he was deceived in the process of an offline transaction. </h5>

In early March 2021, Mr. Wei heard from a friend that someone in Shanghai was selling a virtual currency pegged to the US dollar, and the price was three points lower than on the trading platform. Mr. Wei, who was very impressed, immediately urged his friend to contact the seller and asked him to come to Hangzhou to meet, but the seller said that he was only willing to trade in Shanghai.

Mr. Wei did not want to miss this opportunity to make a fortune and prepared to go to Shanghai to trade. Before leaving, Mr. Wei contacted his cousin Ms. Huang, who also made "coin speculation" investments, and asked her if she was interested.

Ms. Huang heard that there was a cheap virtual currency for sale, and immediately expressed her intention to buy it, and lent her virtual currency trading platform account to her cousin. On March 10, Mr. Wei drove to Shanghai with his friends.

In the evening, Mr. Wei met with Li Mou, an intermediary and seller's agent, who witnessed and supervised the transaction process, at a hotel in Shanghai. Subsequently, Li asked the middleman to download and install the "e-wallet" software to supervise the transaction process on the one hand, and on the other hand, he pulled Mr. Wei and others into a chat group created by encrypted chat software. After the middleman sent the newly registered "e-wallet" account to the group, he quickly received 50,000 virtual currency transferred by the online seller.

Immediately afterward, Li proposed to trade 5,000 virtual currencies with Mr. Wei first, and Mr. Wei transferred more than 30,000 yuan to the bank account designated by the online seller. After the online seller confirmed the receipt, Li asked the middleman to transfer 5,000 virtual currency from the "electronic wallet" to Mr. Wei.

After 20 minutes, Mr. Wei confirmed that the 5,000 virtual currency traded in advance had arrived. With the first successful transaction, Mr. Wei, who already fully believed in Li, contacted and instructed his cousin Ms. Huang to transfer more than 120,000 yuan to the bank account designated by the seller, and then purchased 20,000 virtual currency.

After the money was transferred to the seller's designated account, Li suddenly said that he was uncomfortable and wanted to go to the toilet, and even left without taking the backpack he carried. Mr. Wei waited for a long time, but he never waited for the returning Li Mou and the virtual currency that arrived, and the intermediary present could no longer transfer the virtual currency. Realizing that he had been deceived, Mr. Wei went to the public security organs to report the case.

According to the photos on the forged documents in Li's bag, the public security organs quickly locked down and arrested Li. After Li arrived at the case, he confessed the facts of the crime to the prosecutor: in early March 2021, he saw someone in a group collecting virtual currency looking for someone to do things at a price of 500 yuan a day, so he took the initiative to sign up. On March 10, the online seller asked him to go to Shanghai as an offline agent, "acting" with himself to defraud Mr. Wei and others of money.

It turned out that Li let the middleman download a fake "e-wallet" software, the first successful transaction of 5,000 virtual currency is actually by the online seller hiding behind the scenes through the real e-wallet transfer, the unsuspecting middleman ostensibly involved in supervising the transaction, in fact, just a blinded bystander.

After the online seller confirmed that more than 120,000 yuan had arrived, he let him find an excuse to slip away. Afterwards, the online seller transferred hundreds of virtual currencies to Li as a reward, and he resold them at a discount to get 4,000 yuan.

Recently, after the Xuhui District People's Procuratorate initiated a public prosecution in accordance with the law, the Xuhui District People's Court sentenced the defendant Li Mou to three years and six months imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 yuan for fraud in accordance with the law, and the online buyer behind it will also be dealt with in another case.

Source: Thoughtful