On the morning of February 5, Shanghai police arrested criminal suspect Huang Zhibo in Guangdong and seized mobile phones, computers, bank cards and other items used in the crime on the spot. After interrogation, Huang Zhibo confessed that during the epidemic prevention and control period, he found that the masses were in urgent need of masks and other protective equipment, so he lured others to buy masks through the Internet in the name of selling masks and then defrauded him of money, and in fact, he had no masks to sell. At the same time, he also confessed two other cases, with a total value of more than 280,000 yuan. At present, the criminal suspect Huang Zhibo has been criminally detained in accordance with law. On the evening of February 13, Lehua Entertainment issued a statement in response: it has terminated the "trainee contract" with Huang Zhibo, and apologized for the bad impact caused by this incident on society.
On the 16th, Huang Zhibo's sister used his Weibo to issue a statement, saying that due to family poverty, his father's serious illness, and the huge cost of the whole family to realize Huang Zhibo's star dream, Huang Zhibo, who had a weak sense of law and wanted to reduce the burden on the family, "made a painful illegal act without the knowledge of his family."
Huang Zhibo, born in November 1999, was a contracted trainee under Lehua Entertainment of Beijing Lehua Entertainment Culture Communication Co., Ltd. before the crime, and participated in the recording of youku men's group selection variety show "In the Name of the Group".