"The autumn breeze rises, the crab feet itch", around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, crab sales enter the peak season. Boss Liu, who runs an aquatic business in Shanyang Town, Baoying, encountered a big deal, and the other party asked for 3,000 catties of hairy crabs when he opened his mouth. Is it really the "God of Wealth" who has come to the door?
Victim Boss Liu: At that time, there were four Xinghua people who came to buy crabs.
"God of Wealth" came to the door
One day in October last year, four customers drove a truck to Boss Liu's shop to collect crabs, and one of them, a man surnamed Wang, had a lot of money and suddenly wrapped up 3,000 catties of crabs in the store. Seeing the "God of Wealth" coming to the door, Boss Liu was overjoyed. At this time, the other party said that these hairy crabs were ordered by a restaurant in Zhejiang, and due to the large quantity, they had to transport the crabs away first, and then settle the bill with Boss Liu after the other party paid.
Victim Boss Liu: The total price of these crabs is about 120,000 yuan, and Wang himself stayed in my store at that time, saying that he could settle the bill with me that afternoon, and the business came to the door, so I agreed.
A cartload of crabs was pulled away
Wang paid a deposit of 2,000 yuan, and he himself stayed, while the other three pulled a cart of crabs away. Seeing that it was evening, the money had not been settled. At this time, Wang, who stayed in the store, looked nervous and kept looking out. Boss Liu felt that something was wrong and secretly called the police.
Victim Boss Liu: He felt a little like running, I asked him when the money would be given to me, but he didn't speak, and then I called the police.
After the police came to the door, Wang was dumbfounded, poured beans into the bamboo tube, and explained everything.
Victim Boss Liu: He said that my crab was indeed sold, but the accomplice didn't call him, and he didn't have the money to pay me, so he wanted to take the opportunity to escape, but he didn't expect me to call the police.
Watch out! "Crab" scam
According to this statement, was Wang "sold" by his accomplices, or was there another hidden story behind it? The price of 3,000 catties of hairy crabs was very expensive, and the local police did not dare to slack off, so they immediately patrolled the line and tracked down, and soon arrested the remaining three accomplices.
Conspiracy to deceive
After investigation, among the four people, Ge and Zhu originally had the intention of making aquatic products, but due to foreign debts, the two conspired to take advantage of the listing of hairy crabs to "make a fortune". So, they found fellow villagers Wang and Shen, pretending to be crab buyers to commit crimes.
Baoying County People's Procuratorate Prosecutor Wang Guan: Ge is the general behind-the-scenes planner and commander-in-chief, Wang went to the aquatic industry store to pretend to be a fake boss to leave the checkout, Zhu went to the aquatic product store to see the list of goods as a purchaser, and Shen specialized in hauling and selling.
Fraud gangs are infighting
Ge confessed that usually the four of them work together, first pretending to go to other aquatic products stores to buy goods, leaving the so-called "boss" on the scene after the goods are towed, and then paying part of the payment for the goods so that the "boss" can take the opportunity to get out, and finally maliciously defaulting on the reason that the crabs are not of good quality, so as to make illegal profits. This time, after they sold out Boss Liu's crabs in Zhejiang, they made an illegal profit of 120,000 yuan, but they didn't admit that there was infighting in the gang, and one of them ran away with the money.
Baoying County People's Procuratorate Prosecutor Wang Guan: After getting the payment, Ge began to divide the stolen goods, he took half of the money himself, gave the rest of the money to Zhu, asked him to transfer part of it to Wang first, and let Wang pay part of the payment with the victim, and then Zhu did not transfer the money to Wang after getting the money.
Deceived nearly 10,000 catties of hairy crabs
This led to Wang's delay in receiving the payment, and he was captured when he was trapped, and finally his gang was "wiped out". The police found out that this group of people used the same means to commit three crimes in Baoying, Xinghua and other places, defrauding a total of more than 9,700 catties of crabs and making illegal profits of more than 280,000 yuan.
Wang Guan, prosecutor of the Baoying County People's Procuratorate: I wanted to cover up the fact that I had defrauded in the name of economic disputes, but in fact, several defendants had already reached a conspiracy before going to the aquatic industry, the purpose was to take possession of the victim's crabs, and the payment for the goods had already been taken possession by them, so we believe that they had achieved the purpose of illegal possession, and they defrauded the victims of money by fabricating facts such as the poor quality and quantity of the crabs.
Recently, the Baoying Procuratorate prosecuted Ge, Wang and other four people on suspicion of fraud. In the end, the court sentenced the four to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from two years and two months to four years and eight months, and also fined.
The prosecutor reminded that it is now the peak season for the sale of hairy crabs, and all aquatic products traders should be vigilant, try to sell and settle large orders, and beware of being deceived.
Indeed, during the harvest season, both aquaculture farmers and operators must be careful not to be harvested by criminals!
Edit | Han Feifei
Audit | Du Qiang
Source: Yangzhou TV attention