Mr. Chen, a citizen of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, reported that he had been defrauded of 800,000 yuan. What stunned the police was that with the deepening of the investigation, they found that Mr. Chen was defrauded not of 800,000 yuan, but nearly 17 million yuan!
What kind of unspeakable secrets are there here? A terrifying scam that has lasted for more than twenty years is gradually emerging, and the biggest accomplice of this scam and the thick stack of diaries he wrote are also revealed in front of people...
"Return 400 million", want to share in the "100 billion national assets" a piece of the pie
"Shouldn't it be that old Lin has been wronged?" Maybe in a few days he will come out and continue to help everyone get money..." After reporting the case, Mr. Chen has been in chagrin, until July 2020, when the Xinwu District Procuratorate approved the arrest of Lin Zhiqing, Mr. Chen died.
This protracted drama of "thawing national assets" has finally come to an end.
Mr. Chen is the head of a local real estate enterprise in Wuxi, and in 2012, through the introduction of his friend Li Xia, Mr. Chen met Wang Ning and Lin Zhiqing. In his office, Lin Zhiqing said that he had a "national project" with a high return on investment, but there was a lack of funds at present, and he hoped to get Mr. Chen's support for the project and promised a huge return.
This project is the "thawing of national assets". Lin Zhiqing claimed to be the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of a northeastern province, "Grandpa used to be the head of the guard of the puppet Manchukuo Emperor Puyi", and later made a lot of money doing business in Hong Kong, about 140 billion yuan, after the grandfather's death he wanted to transfer this inheritance to China, but was temporarily withheld by the relevant state departments, and needed funds to unfreeze the relationship. "After the fact, Mr. Chen will be returned with 400 million yuan of funds."
At that time, it coincided with the failure of one of Mr. Chen's project investments, and new projects were urgently needed to make up for the losses, coupled with friends Li Xia and Wang Ning both said that they had invested a large amount of money, Li Xia was originally a senior executive of the financial system, Wang Ning was the deputy general manager of a construction company in Nanjing at the time, the two said it was conclusive, Mr. Chen felt that the project had investment prospects and could make up for the previous losses, so he believed Lin Zhiqing's statement.
Since 2012, for the first time, Lin Zhiqing carried a box of "ancient jade", saying that he wanted to borrow one million yuan from Mr. Chen as collateral to make some connections, and then asked Mr. Chen for nearly 17 million yuan in the name of "borrowing" and "investment" on the grounds that "unfreezing assets" needed to go to the relevant ministries and commissions of the state.
In the past eight years, Mr. Chen not only did not receive the slightest return, but "provoked" several lawsuits, resulting in millions of yuan of debt.
Whenever Mr. Chen asked when the return would arrive, Lin Zhiqing and Wang Ning both said that "it is almost fast, the unfrozen funds have reached a certain department of the state" and "I have already agreed with a certain leader, and I almost signed it"... Mr. Chen felt hopeful, so he has been transferring money to them through online banking and WeChat.
In addition to Mr. Chen, Lin Zhiqing's great cause of "unfreezing national assets" is supported by Mr. Ding, Mr. Zhou and others in Wuxi. In 2009, Mr. Ding was introduced by Li Xia and transferred more than 2.8 million yuan to Lin Zhiqing and others through bank card transfers. Lin Zhiqing also signed a commitment agreement with him, promising that after the unfrozen funds, he would invest 50 million yuan to Mr. Ding's company project.
In his dealings with Mr. Ding, Lin Zhiqing called himself a university professor, and his assets worth tens of billions of DOLLARs were frozen during his time as a journalist in Hong Kong, and Mr. Ding believed it to be true, "investing" millions of yuan for more than ten years since 2000, hoping to get a share of the "thawing of hundreds of billions of national assets" project.
Hope again and again, disappointment after disappointment, until the death of Mr. Ding in 2014, did not see a penny in return.
Since September 2019, Mr. Chen has been looking for Lin Zhiqing, Wang Ning, Li Xia and others almost every week, however, the funds that "arrive immediately" are always in vain, and the promised "returns" have been missing for a long time. In May 2020, Mr. Chen, who could not bear it, chose to report the case under the persuasion of his children.
They do not know that this "thawing of hundreds of billions of national assets" is doomed to have no results.
"Do you know who I am? You've got a big deal! ”
After receiving Mr. Chen's report, the Xinwu police arrested Lin Zhiqing, Wang Ning and others.
"Do you know who I am? You've got a big deal! At the scene of the arrest, Lin Zhiqing squinted at the case-handling personnel, and everyone was surprised by the words.
"Descendants of Manchu Qing royals", "Propaganda Minister of the Provincial Party Committee", "University Professor", "Hong Kong Journalist"... Who is this thin old man in front of him who does not look amazing and is simply dressed?
With the further investigation of the case, an extraordinarily large fraud case of "thawing national assets" headed by Lin Zhiqing surfaced.
Lin Zhiqing, male, was born in 1953 to an ordinary peasant family. After graduating from secondary school in 1972, he stayed on to teach at the school, and in 1982 he was transferred to a magazine under the Propaganda Department of a provincial party committee as an editor, and in 1992 he went south to Shenzhen to work in a news media, and in 1997 he resigned and went to the sea to do business.
In 1998, Lin Zhiqing met a "big man" who changed his destiny, who painted a "great deed" to him and promised him a splendid future.
Because doing business requires funds, Lin Zhiqing, through the introduction of a real estate company owner, met "Jin Zong", a woman who is said to have "hands and eyes through the sky" and has great energy, claiming to know the state leader and making a lot of money doing business in Beijing and Shanghai.
In a five-star luxury hotel in Shanghai, Mr. Jin revealed his "secret": she has a "special" identity, and now she is in trouble, the money in her account has been frozen due to violation of the policy, and she is in urgent need of help, otherwise someone like Lin Zhiqing would not have had the opportunity to know her.
Jin said that this money has 50 billion yuan, hoping that Lin Zhiqing can contribute money to help her raise money to build some relations, and once his assets are successfully unfrozen, he will take out 20 billion yuan to give him as a reward.
At first, Lin Zhiqing had some doubts, he inquired through his personal connections, learned that Jin Zong was "indeed very rich, but whether there were frozen funds is unknown", he even secretly tracked Jin Zong, and found that she "does often go in and out of some high-end places".
Lin Zhiqing believed it to be true and decided to give up his career to assist Jin Zong, help her raise funds and unfrozen the funds.
For more than twenty years, Lin Zhiqing abandoned his family and abandoned his children, gave up his painstaking business, willingly became a pawn of others, cheated and deceived everything, and played the absurd life of "multi-faceted people", and finally fell into prison.
According to Lin Zhiqing's own confession, since 1998, he has borrowed nearly 50 million yuan from Jin Zong, including all his own savings, as well as private usury loans that borrow from others, illegally raise funds, and even borrow loans.
Huge amounts of money flowed to Jin's account for her to "make some connections" and unfreeze assets. Lin Zhiqing fictitiously identified himself, promised every "borrower", promised a hundred times the profit, and tied everyone to his "crazy carriage", during which people continued to join, people kept quitting, and more people were wrapped up in him all the way forward.
Among these people, there are real estate celebrants, financial executives, private owners... Most of them are successful people in the social elite. If they were deceived and deceived at the beginning, then why did they still believe in such a scam as "unfreezing national assets" until after the crime, when they did not see a return for many years?
Wang Ning, Li Xia and others said that the reason why they firmly believe in this great cause of "unfreezing national assets" is that in addition to the huge returns promised by Lin Zhiqing, another important reason is Lin Zhiqing's character guarantee. He seems to be honest and reliable, trustworthy in his work, thrifty and thrifty, has no bad habits, and although he handles tens of millions of dollars of funds, he eats a box lunch with everyone and smokes a few dollars a pack of cigarettes.
Lin Zhiqing's daughter Xiaoli also confirmed this view. She said that since her father followed Jin Zong to do things, the economic situation has become worse and worse, the relationship with his family is strange, and he has not even returned to such a big thing as his marriage and the death of his grandfather, and every contact is to borrow money from her, and his clothes are very shabby, as if he has "gone into the magic".
How can such a person be a liar?
Carrying pesticides with him, the mysterious "Jin Zong" is exactly who
In the face of the prosecutor's interrogation, Lin Zhiqing said, "I actually have some doubts that Jin Zong's statement that 50 billion assets were frozen and that he had found leaders at all levels to make some connections was a kind of delay, but I prefer to believe that this is true." He said that all the money raised was given to Jin Zong to unfreeze assets, and he never sought any private profits.
So, is this mysterious "Jin Zong" a "big man" invented by Lin Zhiqing in order to evade legal responsibility, or is there really someone?
According to Lin Zhiqing's confession, "Jin Zong", whose real name is Jin Ruifen, is about sixty years old, a Shanghainese, and "walks with a limp."
As the investigation deepened, the police found that since 2000, Lin Zhiqing had indeed continued to transfer money to the bank account of a man named Jin Ruifen. Jin Ruifen is the key person in this case, however, to everyone's surprise, Jin Moufang's road to the case is so thrilling and long.
"Are you Kim Ruifen?" We are..." In August 2020, in a community in Shanghai, the investigators of the public security organs knocked on the door of a family, and before they could finish introducing their identities, they saw the other party quickly take out a small black bottle from his pocket, open the lid and drink it all, and then spit white foam on the ground and convulse, and then was urgently sent to the hospital ICU by 120 for rescue. Fortunately, due to the timely rescue, Jin Ruifen was not in danger of life.
After testing, the black vial was a highly toxic pesticide.
As her health improved, after Jin Ruifen was transferred to the general ward, she either kept silent or flashed her words in the face of interrogation by the public security organs. If the tone of the interrogation by the public security organs is slightly severe, the blood pressure will immediately burst and the blood pressure monitor will beep, making the interrogation impossible to continue.
It is understood that in addition to the fraud case involving Lin Zhiqing, Jin Ruifen is suspected of defrauding others of more than 20 million yuan under the guise of "helping people dispose of real estate", and the case is currently being further handled.
After investigation, Jin Ruifen, born in 1965 in an ordinary peasant family in a suburban county of Shanghai, suffered from polio from an early age and had difficulty walking on his legs and feet. Since the 1990s, Jin Ruifen has imagined his identity as a "rich businessman" and "widow of a rich businessman", claiming to the outside world that he "knows the leader of the country" and has assets ranging from "tens of billions" and "tens of billions", and has recruited people like Lin Zhiqing as "pawns", promised heavy profits, and woven a shocking deception of "unfreezing national assets".
It is reported that Jin Ruifen does not have any assets under his name. Lin Zhiqing and others lost their homes, borrowed usurious loans, and fraudulently obtained money, which became the capital for her family to buy luxury cars and enjoy a luxurious life in Shanghai.
As a person in the "net", Lin Zhiqing even continued to invent the identity of "descendant of the Manchu Qing royal family", fueled Jin Ruifen's deception, advocated and shouted, and defrauded others of more than 20.38 million yuan of money, lin Zhiqing could not escape the blame.
Thawing national assets, a "yellow sorghum dream" that does not want to wake up
On April 1, 2021, Lin Zhiqing was sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in prison and fined 500,000 yuan for committing fraud.
This day is the "April Fool's Day" of the Western tradition.
In the stage of review and prosecution, Lin Zhiqing was still insisting on defending the "great cause" of "unfrozen national assets" as true, and in the face of a series of evidence from the prosecutor, he finally fell silent, and later said: "It's like having a dream all the time, doing what you believe, don't want to wake up, don't dare to wake up." ”
In fact, at least in August 2001, Lin Zhiqing was aware of it.
"My father passed away at 4:15 p.m. on August 5, 2001, and he could not return for the above reasons, so on August 9, his father's memorial service could he do a good job in Shanghai and give an account to his hometown father and elder? Mr. Jin, do you understand? ”
Screenshot of Lin Zhiqing's diary. (Source: Profile photo)
On that day, in Lin Zhiqing's diary, there seemed to be tear marks on the yellowed letter paper. After writing the above words, he seemed to be unsatisfied, and added: "This is a big gamble!" tear......! ”
A big exclamation point, as if you can see that he is upset, and then draw two lines: the lonely sail, the lonely mountains, a lonely figure looking into the distance...
In Lin Zhiqing's early diary, there is no shortage of such words -
"On April 20, 2002, I waited for nearly a month, and [Jin Ruifen] said every day that he was coming, that he was asking for money and things every day."
"On August 6, 2002, I got up at six o'clock in the morning, waited for Mr. Kim's phone, and never turned on. When Mr. Jin called at noon and asked me to transfer her a few hundred yuan to pay, and to buy a few boxes of drinks and 3,000 yuan in cash, I did it. Feels big head. ”
"On August 28, 2002, I got up at 7:30 a.m. to wait for her notice and didn't turn on until 11:30. I called around 12 o'clock and said don't call, she took something to my way and called me. Around 2:30 I tried to make two phone calls and she wouldn't answer. Around 3:30 Kim called and said: What's the matter? say. I had no choice. There is no following. ”
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The thick diary records one after another of the money raised by Lin Zhiqing, the funds provided to Jin Ruifen, and the deception of Jin Ruifen again and again. He even painted a pig's head portrait of Jin Ruifen to express his dissatisfaction.
By 2003, Lin Zhiqing's own property was exhausted, and the "thawing of national assets" was not traced. Asked Jin Ruifen, she said, "Then find someone else!" ”
Later, because there were too many funds, and Jin Ruifen always said "quickly done, quickly done", Lin Zhiqing no longer wrote a diary and bookkeeping as before, and only remembered a rough amount.
In recent years, although the state's repeated orders to unfrozen national assets are scams, and the public security organs have continued to maintain a high-pressure posture of cracking down such crimes, there are still people who come forward and follow, and moths are generally deceived. In Lin Zhiqing's earth-shattering deception that lasted for more than 20 years, many people were originally victims at first, but because of greed, they eventually became perpetrators.
"In handling the case, we found that although these victims seem to be elite members of society, there is a general fluke mentality - what if it is true? At first, I was also very cautious, not to invest millions or tens of millions at once, but over time, with the increase of time, money, manpower, etc., I was trapped in it and could not get out. ”
Wen Yao, a procurator of the Second Procuratorial Department of the Xinwu District Procuratorate, said that the "thawing national assets" type of scam integrates pyramid schemes, rebates, and fraud, which is extremely tempting and deceptive, just like "beating drums and passing flowers", the deceived people hope to find a new home to "take over the plate", the snowball is getting bigger and bigger, "In the end, it is the dream of promotion and wealth, and the bamboo basket hits the water empty." (The people involved in the case are pseudonyms)
"FangYuan" magazine article 丨 Hao Hongmei
Source: Fangyuan magazine