In the name of "stock speculation", 52 people set up "pig killing plates" overseas to defraud more than 12.87 million yuan The first-instance judgment was pronounced in the 71-person transnational telecommunications network fraud case

On November 2, the Lianhu District People's Court of Xi'an City publicly pronounced a verdict in the first instance on the transnational telecommunications network fraud case involving Fan Mouliang and 71 others, in which the defendants Fan Mouliang and Li Mouliang were sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in prison, and the remaining defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 7 years and 10 months to 1 year and 5 months.

Ascend to high salary advertising recruitment gang members

It is understood that this 71-person extraordinarily large transnational telecommunications fraud case was held in public at the Lianhu District Court from October 19 to 21, and the trial lasted 3 days and a total of 22 hours, with a total of 71 defendants and 82 defenders participating, with as many as 123 cases in the file, and the trial transcript was 191 pages and more than 100,000 words. The day before the trial, when the new crown epidemic broke out in Xi'an City, the Lianhu District Court immediately launched an emergency plan, strengthened the elimination of killing in office space, urgently carried out nucleic acid testing, refined the measures for arraignment, strengthened the safety protection of defendants, and ensured that defendants attended the trial on time.

This case is a criminal case of "pig killing plate" telecommunications network fraud committed abroad. Most of the defendants involved in the case are post-80s and post-90s, who recruit personnel through high-paid advertisements, introduce relatives and friends to each other, and join the gang that has done telecommunications fraud before.

The court found that between May and September 2019, defendant Fan Mouliang and 71 other people went to Puerto Princesa City, Palawan Province, Philippines, to join a telecommunications network fraud criminal group formed by Liu Mou (at large) and others to carry out telecommunications fraud activities against Chinese citizens.

Tricking victims into buying "virtual digital currency"

The fraud syndicate has a clear hierarchy, a clear division of labor, strict management, and several levels such as "general manager - director - team leader - salesman", and the members are commensurate with each other by pseudonyms. In the early stage, in order to avoid the relevant accounts used to carry out fraud were banned, each "salesman" used a variety of ways to "raise the number", and then disguised the WeChat and QQ accounts used for fraud as false identities such as "stock teacher", "assistant" and "shareholder" by publishing the circle of friends, and added the victim as a friend in the name of explaining and sharing stock knowledge, and then pulled the victim into the WeChat and QQ groups, and the members of the fraud criminal group cooperated with each other in the group, deceived the victim's trust, and tricked the victim into buying "virtual digital currency" step by step And manipulate the backstage, create the illusion of loss, and then use the "water army" to appease, so that the victims mistakenly think that the investment has failed, so as to achieve the purpose of defrauding the victims of their property.

The fraud syndicate carried out two rounds of telecommunications fraud criminal activities, the first round of telecommunications fraud criminal activities between May and August, a total of 52 victims were defrauded of a total of more than 12.87 million yuan; the second round of telecommunications fraud criminal activities began at the end of August, because China's public security organs launched a crackdown on telecommunications network fraud, the defendant in this case was arrested and failed to carry out successfully.

The criminal syndicate specializes in defrauding Chinese citizens

At trial, the Lianhu court held that defendant Fan Mouliang and 71 others, with the purpose of illegal possession, had participated in a criminal group established abroad specifically to carry out fraud against Chinese citizens, divided labor and cooperated with each other, used telecommunications network technology to fabricate facts, conceal the truth, and defrauded an unspecified majority of people and property, and their acts had constituted the crime of fraud. After trial, the Lianhu District People's Court of Xi'an City sentenced defendants Fan Mouliang and Li Mouliang to 11 years and 6 months imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 yuan for the crime of fraud; the remaining defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 7 years and 10 months to 1 year and 5 months for the crime of fraud, and fined between 40,000 yuan and 5,000 yuan.

At present, it is a special period of epidemic prevention and control, due to the large number of defendants, the Lianhu court, in order to avoid the gathering of people, only some defendants were arraigned for sentencing on the day of the sentence, and the rest of the defendants were pronounced by the presiding judge in the detention center where they were detained. Huashang Daily reporter Ning Jun