Recently, the Lanzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate and the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau jointly issued a notice to publicly solicit clues for the "8·17" film and television investment fraud cases. Subsequently, the topic "Many celebrities participated in films inv

Recently, the Lanzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate and the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau jointly issued a notice to publicly solicit clues for the "8·17" film and television investment fraud cases. Subsequently, the topic "Many celebrities participated in films involving film and television investment fraud cases" became a hot search topic.

According to Red Star News, on January 24, He Xiaodong, one of the police officers responsible for investigating the case, deputy director of the Chengguan Branch of the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, said in an exclusive interview with reporters that the Lanzhou Public Security Bureau had spent more than two years sorting out the case and investigating the case. , now that the case has entered the public prosecution stage, and the purpose of issuing another notice this time is to find more victims, include as many victims as possible, and further complete the evidence.

More than 2,000 people have been infected, "as few as hundreds of thousands, as many as millions" Most of the suspects were former employees of film and television companies

According to Red Star News, " Now we have found more than 2,100 victims, The amount of money that has been defrauded ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions, and the amount involved is currently more than 700 million." He Xiaodong said.

reporters noticed that the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau successfully detected a "5·26" major film and television investment telecommunications fraud case in 2021.

He Xiaodong said that the operating methods of the people involved in the "8·17" film and television investment fraud case soliciting clues are very different from the previous "5·26" case. In the "5·26" case of 2021, the people involved claimed that they could shoot movies to defraud the victims of their money, but in fact they were just crude short videos and other content. As for the "8·17" case in which clues were collected this time, was involved. The personnel purchased a small portion of the movie shares from regular film and television companies, and then subcontracted and sold them at a higher price, which is even more confusing .

He Xiaodong said that the people involved in this case actually only bought a small part of the movie, maybe only 10% or less, but they would expand the publicity through the "trolley army" and tell the victims that the movie was shot by themselves. , and then use high profits to defraud the victim's trust.

Lanzhou police arrested the people involved in the case. Photo provided by Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau

He Xiaodong said that the people involved in the case that currently knows all worked in large film companies or film and television companies in the early days, so they are very familiar with the rules of the film industry. "For example, some movies have not been finished yet, but the share of the movie has already been resold. It is actually impossible to predict whether the final movie of will withstand the test of the market, but at this time the resellers have already made a profit. There is a lot of , and it is impossible for individuals who purchase so-called movie shares from these companies involved in the case to make a profit, and the principal will be directly lost."

html A 285-year-old man was introduced by a "stock recommendation teacher" Invested 1.1 million "Estimated box office 1.5 billion, actual box office 18 million"

According to upstream news, Mr. Qiao, an 85-year-old Jiangsu native, is a victim.

In August 2019, through phone recommendations, Mr. Qiao added a "stock recommendation teacher" on WeChat. The "stock recommendation teacher" told Mr. Qiao that he could help him get some opportunities to invest in movies through connections. Under the introduction of the "stock recommendation teacher", Mr. Qiao met a film and television project manager.

"stock recommendation teacher" and film and television project manager told Mr. Qiao that Beijing Eight Millimeters Culture Media Co., Ltd. is a powerful company that cooperates with first-line stars such as Aaron Kwok and Miriam Yeung. Among them, the movie "Mai Luren" will become a hit, earning several times returns without any risk.

Stills of "Mai Lu Ren" Picture source: Douban Movie

After that, Mr. Qiao obtained the investment income rights corresponding to 0.5% share of the movie by paying 1.1 million yuan. The company signed the "Film Joint Investment Agreement" with Mr. Qiao. The "Agreement" states that the total production cost of the project is 218 million yuan, and the "teacher" said that "Mai Luren" has an estimated box office of 1.5 billion yuan, and can earn 3 to 5 times the investment amount . In fact, the box office of most Hong Kong movies released in the mainland is between 10 million and 100 million yuan, and most of the Hong Kong movies that can achieve higher box office are police and gangster commercial films."Mai Lu Ren" is a heart-warming film that focuses on the lower class people in Hong Kong. It does not have top stars with super high salaries, nor does it have big scenes or special effects. The production cost of 218 million yuan and the box office forecast of 1.5 billion yuan are obviously unreasonable.

In addition, the relevant investment agreement also shows that Party A (Beijing Eight Millimeters Culture Media Co., Ltd.) promises that if this project fails to be released, Party A can fully repurchase all of Party B’s investment corresponding to the actual investment amount delivered by Party B. share, and interest shall be paid to Party B at a standard annualized rate of 8%.

However, "Mailu Ren" was released in September 2020. The box office in the mainland was only 18.03 million yuan, and the box office in Hong Kong was 8.28 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately 7.58 million yuan), which was much lower than the "Teacher"'s estimate. According to this estimate, 20.5% of the investment share of html can only recover less than 50,000 yuan for . Investors did not receive high returns as expected. Instead, they filed a lawsuit with the film and television company in order to recover their principal.

Previous report: Lanzhou police issued a document soliciting clues Aaron Kwok, Shu Qi and other stars starring in movies were involved in the case

announced that in 2022, the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau detected a film and television investment fraud case headed by Li Moumou. The criminal gang carefully designed and arranged their words, packaged and used identities such as "lecturer" and "assistant", and used social software such as QQ and WeChat. , uses the form of stock recommendation to attract investors to invest in stocks, and then exaggerates the film production costs and expected box office returns, leading investors to purchase the film's "income share" to commit fraud, and only uses a small part of the fraudulent amount to pay the film producer to purchase the share. The remaining funds were used for fraudulent operations and personal squandering.

The case involves a total of four companies, namely Beijing Bammie Culture Media Co., Ltd., Zhongrui Taifeng (Beijing) Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Beijing China Film Xinyi International Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd., and Beijing Maifengshengshi Culture Media Co., Ltd. Involving 12 movies: "The Van Gogh Project", "The Monkey King: The Sky-Eating Demon Monkey", "Mailu Man", "Rescue from the Raging Sea", "The Poet", "Desperate Rescue", "Oppa, You Are So Handsome", "The Ruffian Lover" and "Money on the Road" "Love You with All My Heart" (renamed "Fist Mom" ​​or "Fist Mom"), "Shanghai Shanghai" and "Luban Underground Palace". Among them, "Mailu Ren", "Poet", "Money on the Road" and "Punch Out Mom" ​​have been released, with box office receipts of 18.03 million yuan, 1.02 million yuan, 24,000 yuan and 3.99 million yuan respectively. According to

public information, the movie "Mailu Ren" starring Aaron Kwok and Miriam Yeung will be released on September 17, 2020. The movie "The Ruffian Lover" stars Shu Qi. Maoyan Professional Edition shows that the joint production companies of the movies "Mailuren" and "Ruffian Lover" include Beijing 8mm Culture Media Co., Ltd.

(Source: Daily Economic News)