The Paper's reporter Ye Yinghe
Shortly after Zhang Wei, the actual controller of China Science and Technology Innovation Group, was prosecuted, the "protective umbrella" behind his involvement in blackmail also surfaced.
On September 22, the central discipline inspection commission and the state supervision commission published an article on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission entitled "The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission Publicly Exposed Six Typical Cases of Mafia-related Evil Corruption and "Protective Umbrellas," revealing the issue of Li Huanan, former deputy secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal CPC Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, acting as a "protective umbrella" for Zhang Wei's mafia-related organizations.
Since 2010, mafia-related organizations led by Zhang Wei have used financial platforms to induce victims to borrow or raise funds, obtained the real estate of debtors or guarantors by forcing debtors to default, false lawsuits, and other means, and used soft and hard violence to illegally seize huge wealth. Knowing that Zhang Wei had a background involved in organized crime, Li Huanan took advantage of his position as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, president of the Municipal Intermediate People's Court, deputy secretary of the Municipal CPC Committee, and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee to accept bribes to help Zhang Wei be elected as a deputy to the Fifth People's Congress of Shenzhen Municipality, and introduced Zhang Wei to the cadres of the court and the public security system to facilitate his winning of false lawsuits. In 2016, Li Huanan greeted the relevant responsible person and asked the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau to file a case against Zhang Wei for suspected illegal absorption of public deposits.
Zhang Wei mentioned in the above article is the actual controller of China Science and Technology Innovation Group. Just 6 days ago, the case of "Zhang Wei, the actual controller of China Science and Technology Innovation Group, was arrested for involvement in black crime" ushered in new progress.
On the evening of September 17, Suzhou Zhongke Innovative Materials Co., Ltd. (st Zhongkechuang, 002290.sz), a listed company actually controlled by Zhang Wei, announced that the Shenzhen Municipal Procuratorate had prosecuted Zhang Wei, the actual controller of the company, for organizing, leading, and participating in a mafia-type organization, illegally absorbing public deposits, forcing transactions, intentional injury, illegal detention, fraud, extortion, gathering crowds to fight, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, accommodating others to take drugs, and bribing.
On April 10, 2019, the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a notice saying that the bureau had smashed a criminal syndicate led by Zhang Wei (male, 46), the legal representative of Shenzhen Zhongkechuang Financial Holding Group Co., Ltd. With the approval of the procuratorial organs, Zhang Wei, Han Zuoji, Wang Dong, and 44 other criminal suspects were arrested on charges of organizing, leading, and participating in a mafia-type organization, as well as the crimes of illegal detention, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, extortion, false litigation, fraud, and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
The circular also disclosed that, upon investigation, the criminal syndicate involved in organized crime had set up the "88 Fortune Network" network financing platform, fabricated investment projects, illegally absorbed deposits from the public, obtained huge amounts of funds and then used them for high-interest lending to make profits, and had used violent means such as posing for collections, illegal detention, and picking quarrels and provoking troubles to force the debtors to collect, and also used false lawsuits to force debtors to repay their debts by making false bank flows, blank debt confirmations, and using loans to settle loans.
Zhang Wei's capital map
Zhang Wei, 47 years old, is a military veteran. In 2004, Zhang Wei established Zhongkechuang Financial Holding Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zhongkechuang Group), with a registered capital of 211 million yuan and net assets of 1.03 billion yuan, and its business scope includes traditional financial services such as financing guarantees, factoring, and leasing, and Zhang Wei holds 94% of the shares.
There are as many as 113 enterprises in which Zhongkechuang Group has actual control. According to media reports, in 2015, Zhang Wei once introduced to the outside world that Zhongkechuang already has six major sectors of Internet finance, Internet real estate, wealth management, mergers and acquisitions and investment, wealth art museum and wealth club, with a cumulative asset management scale of 31.2 billion yuan, and has provided services for more than 76 Hong Kong stock and A-share listed companies.
Zhang Wei also entered the listed company through the transfer of shares.
In May 2015, Shenzhen Zhongkechuang Asset Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongkechuang Asset"), which is 100% controlled by Zhang Wei, acquired 27.12 million shares of Suzhou Hesheng New Materials Co., Ltd. (Hesheng New Materials, 002290.sz) held by Zhao Dongming, Zhang Wenhua and Jiang Xueyuan, becoming the new shareholders of Hesheng New Materials, with a shareholding ratio of 12.87%.
In 2016, Zhongkechuang Assets increased its holdings in Hesheng New Materials to 27.42%, mainly through secondary market purchases, block transactions and participation in fixed increases, etc. In August 2016, Zhao Dongming, the former chairman of Hesheng New Materials, resigned, and Zhongkechuang Assets became the new controlling shareholder of the company.
In March 2017, Suzhou Hesheng New Materials Co., Ltd. was officially renamed as Suzhou Zhongke Innovative Materials Co., Ltd., and the stock abbreviation was also renamed from "Hesheng New Material" to "Zhongke New Material".
However, only two years later, Zhongke New Material announced on April 29, 2019 that the company was subject to special treatment of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's "Delisting Risk Warning", and the name was changed from "Zhongke New Material" to "*st Zhongke", and then changed to "st Zhongke" again on July 8, 2020.
According to the semi-annual report of st Zhongkechuang in 2020, during the reporting period, the operating income of St Zhongkechuang was 717 million yuan, the earnings per share were 0.11 yuan, and the net profit was 27.62 million yuan, an increase of 127.73% over last year. As of the close of trading on September 23, the closing price of St. Zhongkechuang was 5.02 yuan, down 0.2% from the previous day's closing price.
From "financial empire" to "criminal syndicates involved in organized crime"
The collapse of Zhongkechuang Group began in early 2019.
On January 3, 2019, Zhongke New Materials issued an announcement that the company's actual controller Zhang Wei, chairman and general manager Ai Ping, director Zhang Xiaoxuan, director Ren Jie and Huang Bin, the legal representative of Shenzhen Zhongkechuang Commercial Factoring Co., Ltd., were requested by relevant departments to assist in the investigation and were temporarily unable to perform their duties.
At the same time, the office space of Zhongkechuang Assets, a major shareholder with a shareholding ratio of 32%, was seized, and three subsidiaries that rented the same office space were also seized - Shenzhen Zhongkechuang Capital Investment Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Zhongkechuang Commercial Factoring Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Zhongkechuang Value Investment Co., Ltd.
On April 10, 2019, the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a notice on its official microblog saying that it had smashed a triad-related criminal group headed by Zhang Wei, the legal representative of China Science and Technology Innovation Group.
In this regard, Zhongkechuang Group was defined by the police as a "criminal syndicate involved in the mafia".
The Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau said that with the approval of the procuratorial organs, 44 criminal suspects, including Zhang Wei, Han Zuoji, and Wang Dong, were arrested on charges of organizing, leading, and participating in a mafia-type organization, as well as the crimes of illegal detention, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, extortion, false litigation, fraud, and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
The circular also said that after investigation, the criminal syndicate involved in the mafia-related crime group set up the "88 Fortune Network" network financing platform, fictitious investment projects, illegally absorbed deposits from the public, obtained huge amounts of funds and then used them for high-interest lending for profits, and used violent means such as set-up collections, illegal detention, and picking quarrels and provoking troubles to force collection, and also used false lawsuits to force debtors to repay debts by making false bank flows, blank debt confirmations, and using loans to settle loans.
According to public information, 88 Fortune Network was established in October 2013, the operating entity is Shenzhen Zhongkechuang Wealth Pass Network Finance Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongkechuang Wealth Pass"), mainly engaged in compound interest series, fixed investment series, fixed + floating series, excess series and other types of online loan products, in the b2c + o2o model, the funds of individual lenders to corporate customers.
In February 2017, Zhongkechuang Wealth Pass announced the suspension of "88 Fortune Network" and successively closed the new user registration and investment functions. According to a previous surging news report, the suspension announcement released by "88 Fortune Network" shows that as of December 2018, the unpaid principal and interest of 88 Wealth on the "2017 and 2018 List of Principal and Interest to Be Redeemed" totaled about 753 million yuan.
It has also been reported that "88 Fortune Network" is suspected of self-financing, and the borrowers, guarantors and p2p platforms of some products are controlled by Zhongkechuang Group, and there are problems such as the address of the pledge depository institution and the borrower, repeated pledge, and unclear use of the funds raised.
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