On May 18, Guangzhou Baiyun Police held a press conference on combating and preventing telecommunications network fraud. The Southern Metropolis reporter learned from the press conference that, recently, the Baiyun police destroyed the first gang that used digital currency to fraudulently “launder money” for telecommunications networks, arrested a total of 12 suspects, and seized computers, mobile phones, bank cards, USB shields and other items involved in the case. Batch.
was defrauded of 3.1 million yuan for participating in ultra-high “yield” investments
According to the police, Mr. A is a businessman and often pays attention to investment-related news. In November 2019, Mr. A scanned the QR code to join an investment WeChat group while browsing the tweets of a WeChat public account. Some people in the group often posted some so-called "good news". After paying attention for a period of time, Mr. A was attracted by the investment "project" of overseas speculation of Bitcoin, so he contacted the person who released the news. In January 2020, according to an investment platform website and operation method he provided, Mr. A remitted RMB 100,000 to the account provided by the platform for the first time. After the investment of
, Mr. A found that he had obtained considerable "revenue" in his platform account: at the highest point, the profit of 100,000 yuan could reach 30,000 to 40,000. So he continued to invest more. In less than a month, Mr. A has remitted a total of 3.1 million yuan to different bank accounts provided by the platform. At the end of February, Mr. A was suddenly notified by the platform that his investment project had "exploded", and his money was in substantial losses. At the same time, he also found that the balance displayed on the platform account could not be withdrawn at all. At this time, he realized that he had encountered a telecommunications network fraud, so he immediately reported the case to the police.
tracked down the whereabouts of the funds and found that the "money laundering" gang
, the police handling the case, told Nandu reporters that Mr. A had transferred funds to the platform 11 times, and the highest transfer amount was RMB 1 million. After receiving the report from Mr. A, the Baiyun police immediately formed a task force to investigate. Mr. A can transfer funds up to RMB 1 million. After tracing the funds, the police found that the fraudsters quickly divided the funds into several accounts and transferred them from these accounts to other accounts. Accounts are transferred layer by layer to confuse the police and conceal the true destination of funds.
After careful analysis and research on the accounts involved in the case, the police found that some of the information related to the account opening of the funds flowed to a certain area in Guangdong, and it was likely that a group was conducting "money laundering" operations for fraud. Through further investigation and confirmation, the police gradually found out a "money laundering" gang headed by Peng Mouten (male, 39 years old) and Peng Mouli (male, 28 years old, all from Guangdong).
At the end of April, according to clues, the Baiyun police organized police forces into five groups, respectively in Jieyang, Shanwei, Foshan, Zengcheng, Guangzhou and other places, arrested all 12 suspects, including Peng Mouten and Peng Mouli, and seized them. One computer, 17 mobile phones, 80 bank cards, and a batch of USB shields were involved, successfully cutting off the gray industrial chain of "money laundering". After the suspects were arrested, they explained to the police the process of “money laundering”: after receiving the money transferred by fraudsters in their account, they would transfer the money to WeChat or Alipay. Purchase the Internet financial fund products provided by the platform that can withdraw cash flexibly. Next, they will use these funds to buy and sell digital currencies in private transactions online, and withdraw a certain percentage of commissions from them. The scammers used the concealment of digital currency and the ability to support overseas transactions to successfully transfer fraudulent funds to overseas bank accounts, making it difficult for the police to track down. According to the suspect, the initial investigation and verification of the police found that they used digital currency to "launder" money for fraud gangs in less than half a year and made more than 300,000 yuan in profits.
Currently, the police have criminally detained six of the suspects in accordance with the law, and the case is still under investigation. According to the Baiyun Police, from January to April, the Baiyun Police successfully stopped paying more than 6,670 accounts involved in telecommunications network fraud, frozen 7,288 accounts, and frozen funds of more than 83.81 million yuan. After careful examination and verification, we have successively handled the original return of the deceived amount of more than 650,000 yuan to the masses. While effectively cracking down on telecommunications network fraud crimes, it also promptly recovered the economic losses for some defrauded people. Write by
: Southern Metropolitan reporter Ao Yinxue Correspondent Yunan
