The retired lady was swiped 1.46 million, and the young man was given 4 cards and had to take out an online loan! The staff of Lebang Fitness buys luxury cars and wears famous watches!

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2024-07-07 21:19Published on the official account of Red Star News of Chengdu Business Daily, Sichuan

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01 Nanjing Lebang Gym was accused of fooling students into applying for credit card recharge, and one of the retired women, Ms. Xue, was swiped with 1.46 million yuan of pension money.

02 Another young member, Xiao Li, was processed for 4 cards, and he was also saddled with an online loan, and a total of 850,000 yuan was swiped away from the class fee.

03 Members found that the gym staff were buying luxury cars and wearing famous watches, and questioned the company for using false promises to defraud money.

04 According to the Tianyancha system, Nanjing Lebang Fitness Co., Ltd. has as many as 27 lawsuits, most of which are service contract disputes.

05 At present, a number of members who have been swiped away from sky-high fitness fees have reported the case, and the economic investigation department has collected relevant reporting materials.

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Recently, the "Zero Distance" column has paid attention to the fact that Nanjing Lebang Gym fooled students to recharge credit cards. Xiao Ding, one of the students, was just a young man who had just entered the society, but he was swiped away with 220,000 yuan by the Lebang Gym. For Xiao Ding, this "debt" can be described as a big burden.

However, what is even more outrageous is that Ms. Xue, a retiree who also works out at the store, said that in just half a year, she was fooled by this gym and swiped away 1.46 million yuan, and these are her pension money.

Ms. Xue is 55 years old this year, and due to physical reasons, she retired in advance in 2021. In October 2022, Ms. Xue came to Nanjing Lebang Fitness Maqun Store and wanted to swim and exercise. Under the recommendation of the staff, she bought more than 10,000 yuan of courses, and not long after, the coach asked her to buy tens of thousands of yuan of fitness classes every month for various reasons. In this way, Ms. Xue paid more than 200,000 yuan in class fees in one or two months.

In February 2023, the person in charge of the gym asked her to "talk to her heart" again.

Nanjing Lebang Fitness Member Ms. Xue:

Han Lili, the main operator of Lebang Fitness, told me that being a shareholder can quickly earn money back, and said that the operation of the gym was very successful, and the Lebang Maqun Store recovered its investment in three months. There is a requirement, I must be allowed to buy more than 500,000 yuan of classes, and I can enjoy the shareholder treatment after spending more than 500,000 yuan, and quickly recover the investment of class fees.

At the instigation of the person in charge, Ms. Xue transferred another 800,000 yuan to the other party's account, and signed an agreement with the other party to subscribe for 20% of the shares, becoming the so-called shareholder of Nanjing Lebang Fitness Horse Store. Ms. Xue thought that she could recover the money invested in the early stage after becoming a shareholder, but she didn't expect the other party to intensify it, especially that Han Lili, who often asked Ms. Xue to continue to buy classes on the grounds of "supporting work".

Ms. Xue didn't take much class, but she had already called the other party 1.46 million yuan.

Nanjing Lebang Fitness Member Ms. Xue:

I felt that I had entered a scam, I offered to withdraw the shares before the opening of (other) new stores, and returned the money to me for the class, and they passed the buck to each other, the investors also passed the buck, and Han Lili, who operated the trade, also passed the buck, and Han Lili directly asked me to sue through legal channels.

There are many members who have had a similar experience with Ms. Xue. Xiao Li, who has just joined the work, in order to lose weight, came to the Lebang Gym in Tianyin Plaza, Jiangning District, Nanjing in April 2023 to work out, and then fell into the "trap" step by step, under the recommendation of the fitness coach, he applied for multiple bank credit cards, and even online loans, and was swept away 850,000 yuan in class fees.

Nanjing Lebang Fitness member Xiao Li:

The store manager suspended my class and kept interrupting my class without agreeing, making it impossible for me to continue the class. From May to June last year, I got 4 credit cards, 2 online loans, and then 2 credit platforms, and if you don't give them money, you will be suspended and you will not be allowed to go.

However, in January this year, Xiao Li found that the store's operation was abnormal, and the loan of nearly 20,000 yuan per month was really under pressure, so he proposed a refund.

Nanjing Lebang Fitness Member Xiao Li:

Just use the reasons such as poor performance of the gym and insufficient turnover to let you support yourself and wait for the gym to recover before you can give money.

Xiao Xia is also a member of Nanjing Lebang Fitness Horse Store, he has been swept away about 80,000 yuan of class fees, in Xiao Xia's view, Lebang Fitness Horse Store in order to make members recharge, it can be said that it does everything.

Nanjing Lebang Fitness Member Xiao Xia:

If you don't pay for it at the gym for a month or two, your classes will be suspended and the class will be stopped on the grounds that the coach is not manpowered. If you don't charge your money, you will play the emotional card, go out to eat, and go to drink.

I heard that there was a big brother, four coaches, two men and two women, around the big brother, toasting, two female coaches around, two glasses of wine and a toast, the big brother couldn't control it, so he swiped the card.

According to the incomplete statistics of Ms. Xue and others, Lebang Fitness has swiped nearly 4 million yuan of "class fees" from more than 10 members through the above means.

Spending dozens or even millions to go to the gym is incredible.

According to the Tianyancha system, Nanjing Lebang Fitness Co., Ltd. has as many as 27 lawsuits, most of which are service contract disputes, of which 7 cases have been restricted by the court and included in the judgment defaulters.

From the point of view of time, as early as September last year, the company and its legal representative were included in the judgment defaulter, but many members said that everyone bought the class hours after that. In addition, the registered capital of the company is only 30,000 yuan, and there is no paid-in capital.

Ms. Xue introduced that many members had sued Lebang Fitness before, demanding that they return the class fees, but they encountered the embarrassing situation of "winning the lawsuit and not getting the money". In Ms. Xue's view, the gym and the legal representative have no ability to repay debts at all, and the legal representative is commonly known as the "professional debtor".

Nanjing Lebang Fitness Member Ms. Xue:

In several stores under Lebang, the cashier is bound to the investor's personal card, and the money is not entered into the company's account, and I hope the relevant departments can check it.

Ms. Xue said that while refusing to implement the court's judgment, she found that several beneficiaries in the store were "upgrading consumption"!

Nanjing Lebang Fitness Member Ms. Xue:

From the coach's mouth and from his own eyes, within a few months of Lebang's operation, manager Fan Wu bought about 1 million Land Rovers, and trader Han Lili bought more than 700,000 luxury cars, including the watches worn by Fan Wu are also high-priced Rolex watches.

According to the provisions of the "Jiangsu Provincial Prepaid Card Management Measures", if the business operator or its legal representative, controlling investor, actual controller and other personnel are listed as judgment defaulters or have other serious untrustworthy conduct, and the credit has not been restored, the business operator shall not issue a prepaid card. At the same time, the competent department of the industry shall promptly grasp the business dynamics of prepaid card operators in their jurisdiction, implement classified supervision of operators based on complaints, reports, risk warnings, etc., determine key regulatory areas, regulatory situations and regulatory targets, and coordinate supervision and joint law enforcement with relevant departments.

For the Lebang Maqun store, the local Qixia District Bureau of Culture and Tourism (Sports Bureau), as the industry authority of the sports and fitness prepaid card, has it found that there is a problem with the Lebang fitness company and made an early warning to consumers?

Hou Xuan, Chief of the Mass Sports Section of the Culture and Tourism Bureau (Sports Bureau) of Qixia District, Nanjing:

At present, for enterprises included in the list of dishonesty, relevant enterprises are required to immediately stop the sale of prepaid cards. However, at present, due to the reason of information push, we cannot grasp the dishonesty of fitness companies in the jurisdiction in time.

Hou Hou, chief of the Mass Sports Section of the Qixia District Culture and Tourism Bureau, said that he would give feedback to the Qixia District Political and Legal Committee on the problem of Lebang fitness, and the prepaid card team would take the lead in handling it.

According to legal professionals, if the legal person hired by the company is a "professional debtor" and the tuition fee is used for personal high consumption, then the company is suspected of fraud.

Yang Yuntao, lawyer of Beijing Yingke (Nanjing) Law Firm:

For various reasons, the company put it bluntly as a set routine, constantly letting members recharge, and promising to return it, but when the time came, they regretted it. If a member asks for a refund, he or she delays it for various reasons, and the previous promise may be false, and the so-called "fictitious facts" in the Criminal Code are typical fictitious facts to defraud from the Criminal Code.

If the funds are misappropriated, transferred, or squandered, resulting in the inability to return them to the investors in a timely manner, it is illegal possession, and I believe that this kind of behavior meets the constitutive elements of the crime of fraud.

For such a situation, the lawyer said that these cases seem to be civil disputes, but in essence, they have been suspected of criminal offenses.

Yang Yuntao, lawyer of Beijing Yingke (Nanjing) Law Firm:

To achieve the purpose of using the form of civil litigation to evade criminal punishment. After the court judgment, there was actually no money to enforce it, the registered capital of the company was very small, and there was no property to enforce, which finally led to the legitimate rights and interests of the trainees not being protected, and the economic losses were irreparable. 

In recent days, a number of members who have been swept away from the sky-high fitness fee have come to the Maqun Police Station of the Qixia Branch of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau to report the case.

Source: Nanjing Zero Distance

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