According to the Shanghai Pudong police report on September 11, according to the investor's report, the police opened an investigation against Shanghai Zhiya Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd. for the crime of illegally absorbing deposits from the public, and took criminal compulsory measures against 7 criminal suspects, including wang mou and xiao mou, executives of the company.
At this point, the company's owner Yu Yue was exposed to the Shanghai Zhiya Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd., which paid hundreds of millions of dollars on the live broadcast platform and fled after the incident, and the real "business chain" began to surface.
"Mysterious" business
"Tianyancha" shows that Shanghai Zhiya Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd. was established in 2010, the current legal representative is Yu Yue, and the registered capital shows 200 million.
The company's profile claims that its business scope includes "industry, financial leasing, Internet technology" and other sectors. After the Shanghai police seized the company, some self-proclaimed investors pointed out online that Zhiya was actually a shell company purchased by Wu Mou, an executive, in 2017.
The headquarters of Shanghai Zhiya Group has been closed.
Nandu reporter found through the "Sky Eye Check" that since 2018, the company has undergone no less than 7 changes in the equity of legal representatives and investors. According to the record of the change of its business scope, on October 22, 2018, the main scope of business was changed from "real estate development and operation" to "public relations activity planning and corporate image planning", and the real estate development and operation item has been removed.
However, nandu reporter inquired about the company's public account and official website and found that Zhiya, known as "positioned as an international industrial group", although its executive interviews have repeatedly encouraged "rushing performance", but the official website shows only a handful of industries, only repeatedly describing the "business layout" across the medical and health, big finance, financial leasing and other industries, and most of the website content is spiritual encouragement, describing the strategic vision.
A recruitment on its official website shows that it recruits "general manager of the business department", "regional general manager", "branch general manager" and other positions, but there is no introduction to the work content of the position, only "welcome to negotiate".
In addition, the dynamics of Zhiya Company frequently mention "hydrogen energy vehicle construction". According to an investor involved in the relevant project, Zhiya's "project model" is that when the lessee purchases a vehicle from a car dealer, it acts as a financial leasing company, signing a purchase contract with the manufacturer on the one hand, and signing a financial lease contract with the lessee on the other hand, and the lessee pays the rent on schedule.
According to industry insiders, limited by the construction of hydrogen refueling stations, hydrogen energy safety and other issues, the hydrogen energy vehicle industry is currently quite controversial, still in its infancy, including Weichai, Guohong and other large enterprises are difficult to mass-produce gas batteries, "not to mention the layman like Zhiya."
Today, the Pudong Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau has disclosed the company's real business through the investigation detachment. The police investigation found that since December 2017, "Zhiya Company" has illegally raised funds from the unspecified public by selling various types of wealth management products by setting up offline stores in Fujian, Shandong, Hubei and other places without the approval of the relevant state departments, using the promise to pay high returns ranging from 7% to 12% as bait, and in the name of the transfer of financial lease income rights for special vehicles and new energy vehicles. At present, the case is under further investigation.
As of September 13, the company's official website can still be opened, but its Shanghai headquarters has been closed.
Nandu reporters noted that the victims of illegal storage in Zhiya are distributed in many places. In addition to the Shanghai Pudong police, on September 3, the Fujian Mingxi police also issued a notice saying that they had received reports from a number of fundraising participants and were registering and checking the victims.
Legal representatives who tip hundreds of millions of dollars
The storm dates back to a month ago.
On August 19, a person familiar with the matter said that Shanghai Zhiya Industrial Co., Ltd. suddenly issued an announcement on the 17th of the same month, saying that it had made a decision to make an immediate stop loss and benign liquidation, except for the necessary personnel, other employees had been suspended from August 18, and the wages were settled to July 31 and gradually paid from October 10. For the customer's funds, the redemption will be temporarily suspended from August 17, the project assets will be counted from August 17 to October 9, and the payment will gradually begin on October 10.
The company's official account news shows that on August 8, Zhiya gang held an anniversary celebration. "It's doing a good job, I didn't think about it." On August 19, Shen Jian, an executive of Zhiya, responded to the media that he was also a victim, and many investors were still waiting.
On August 14, Yu Yue (first from left), the legal representative of Zhiya, appeared in Cambodia.
Subsequently, a well-known blogger who called himself a Zhiya investor confirmed, "Shanghai Zhiya Group financial leasing collapsed, countless customer investments participated, the boss was in Cambodia, suddenly did not pay wages, employees suspended without pay, a little caught off guard, the principal is unknown, and now less than one point." Subsequently, many investors rushed to the headquarters of Zhiya and demanded the return of "hard-earned money", but at this time, Zhiya had been seized by the police.
Under the official microblog of the Shanghai Investigation Police, many investors replied that the company's actual controller, Yu Yue, has a number of trumpets, and usually likes to tip on a live broadcast platform and make generous shots. According to the consumption record of his account on a live broadcasting platform, "Yiyi Smoke and Rain Ren Pingsheng", from June 2019 to July this year, he paid a total of more than 55 million yuan, and the total tip of multiple live broadcasting platforms was hundreds of millions, which was questioned by some investors about his use of the live broadcast platform to launder money.
A number of investors said that Yu Yue had paid over 100 million yuan on multiple live broadcast platforms.
Nandu reporter noted that the official website of Zhiya Company shows that Yu Yue's latest dynamic update was on August 14, which was he who attended the "high-end real estate groundbreaking ceremony" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
In response to the complaints of the above-mentioned investors, Yu Yue recently recorded a video publicly to explain that due to the impact on the company's business due to the new crown epidemic, the company's and personal assets will be taken stock, and efforts will be made to repay the loan.
In fact, a similar situation occurred in June 2016. Yu Yue mentioned in his apology letter after the "explosion" of Shandong Qianchao Investment Co., Ltd., which he controlled, that "the company's management will always keep in touch with various localities and hope that everyone will give the company time to solve relevant matters."
In August 2020, Yu Yue issued a similar statement again, but was no longer trusted.
According to the Shanghai Pudong police report, as of now, the public security organs have frozen the relevant bank accounts and equity in accordance with the law, and withheld some of the property involved in the case. The recovery of stolen goods and losses is still in full swing, and the final liquidation will be carried out by the court in accordance with the law.
The above-mentioned circular mentioned that the public security organs have obtained relevant data of "Zhiya Company" and hired a professional judicial audit institution to confirm the investment and loan funds of each investor and trace the whereabouts of the funds. The investor in this case can register and file online through the "Shanghai Investor Information Registration Platform for Illegal Fund-Raising Cases", and may also bring his identity documents and relevant reporting materials to the place of household registration, or the public security organ of the actual place of residence to register and file with him.
Shanghai police said that the public security organs will comprehensively collect criminal evidence, and make every effort to promote the investigation of the case to recover stolen goods and recover losses, capital verification and other work, so as to protect the legitimate rights and interests of investors to the greatest extent.
Written by: Nandu reporter Huang Chibo