Through counterfeit packaging, pretending to be famous doctors, false publicity, etc., Xiong, Wang and others will only cost 12 yuan to 31 yuan per bottleOrdinary food ranging from 2 yuan is packaged into a set of health care products priced at 1980 yuan to 3980 yuan, and claims to have the effects of curing all diseases and prolonging life, defrauding tens of thousands of elderly people in totalMore than 400 million yuan.
After the Runzhou District Procuratorate of Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province initiated a public prosecution, on October 24, 2023, the court sentenced the main offenders Xiong and Wang to 13 years in prison and 12 years and six months in prison respectively for the crime of fraud, and each was fined. On November 3, 2023, five people in the gang, including Xue and Tian, who pretended to be famous medical lecturers, were sentenced by the court to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from seven years and six months to two years for committing fraud, and each was fined.
After the first-instance judgment was announced, Xiong, Wang, and Tian were not satisfied and appealed. At present, the case is under further trial.
On October 24, 2023, the court tried the fraud case of Xiong and Wang.
Many elderly people have been deceived
At the end of December 2021, 72-year-old Aunt Meng spent more than 10,000 yuan to buy back a bunch of health care products known as "the queen's top" after listening to a health lecture in a hotel in Runzhou District. Not only do these health supplements have a lofty name, but even the packaging looks very valuable. However, after taking health products for a period of time, Aunt Meng thought that there was no miraculous effect advertised by the "famous medical lecturer", so she contacted the refund many times. However, the salesperson has been prevaricating on the grounds that "I don't have enough time to take it, and I will take it for a while to see the effect".
At that time, the 'famous doctor lecturer' introduced that this health care product was a secret recipe for the Qing Dynasty to pay tribute to Emperor Kangxi, which can not only lower blood lipids and blood sugar, protect the cardiovascular system, but also ** a variety of diseases. My retirement salary is not high, and I saved more than 10,000 yuan through hard work to buy all these health care products ......"In early June 2022, Aunt Meng went to the local police station to report the case.
On June 8, 2022, the public security organs opened a case for investigation. In early July of the same year, the public security organs successively arrested criminal suspects Ming and Chang in Zhenjiang. After investigation, Ming is the person in charge of a ** company in Zhenjiang, and Chang is the sales manager of the company, and the two organized many elderly people to participate in the "meal push" activity of health care products. The so-called "meal push" activity is to invite the elderly to eat with the "famous doctor lecturer", and the "famous doctor lecturer" will introduce and promote health care products during the meal.
Stolen goods seized by the case-handling organs.
According to the confessions of Ming and Chang, the public security police went to Henan to arrest the criminal suspects Xiong, Wang and others. After investigation, the amount involved in this special pension fraud case amounted to 1More than 400 million yuan, the deceived people are all over 60 years old, all over Jiangsu, Sichuan, Liaoning, Guangxi, Hunan and other provinces.
Doxxing scam routines
Where did Aunt Meng's "royal above" health care products come from? Who is the "Famous Doctor Lecturer"? This starts with the main culprits in the case, Xiong and Wang.
Xiong dropped out of junior high school and broke into society, has been relying on odd jobs to make a living, and has also worked in health care product sales. In May 2019, he met Wang by chance, who also had experience in selling health care products. After the two discussed, they established a trading company and changed from a salesman to a boss.
From April 2020 to July 2022, Xiong and Wang paid 12 yuan to 312 yuan of ** purchase tablet candy, solid drinks, plant drinks and other ordinary food, find the manufacturer to process on behalf of the manufacturer, according to different categories of packaging into ** health products, 20 times to 100 times higher than the cost price *** At the same time, Xiong and Wang also recruited Ming, Chang and others to be responsible for sales, and recruited Tian and others to pretend to be "famous doctor lecturers" to promote products. The gang has sold 5More than 50,000 sets of products have defrauded tens of thousands of elderly people1More than 400 million yuan.
The "famous medical lecturer" mentioned by Aunt Meng is Xue, an unemployed woman recruited by Xiong and others from the Internet. After speech training, only Xue, who was new to Chinese, became a "famous medical lecturer". "This health supplement used to be a secret recipe for tribute to the emperor, and it contains 99 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials, of which 60 are known, and the rest are secret recipes. This product is usually priced at 3980 yuan a box, buy a box today and get two boxes free, that is, 3980 yuan for three boxes. At the preaching scene, Xue talked eloquently.
As long as they are articulate and eloquent, and no other qualifications are required, our company will package them as high-end professionals to deceive the elderly into buying products. Xiong said when interrogated.
In August 2022, five suspects who pretended to be "famous medical lecturers" including Xue and Tian were arrested in Tianjin, Sichuan, Henan, Shanxi and other places.
Precise punishment of crimes
After the case, in view of the wide area involved in the case, disrupted the market order of the health care products industry, and seriously violated the rights and interests of the elderly, the Runzhou District Procuratorate intervened in accordance with the law, and carried out 5 case consultations with the public security organs, put forward guiding and investigative opinions on key issues such as fixing electronic data and ascertaining sales amounts, and guided the public security organs to fix more than 20 pieces of evidence materials such as chat records of the persons involved in the case and original accounts of trading companies.
In order to accurately determine the facts of the crime, the Runzhou District Procuratorate believed that the refund of more than 5,000 yuan caused by the return of goods should be deducted from the amount of the crime after a comprehensive comparison of the financial statements and sales settlement lists, and accordingly, the amount of the crime determined by the investigation was increased from 1More than 900 million yuan was reduced to 1More than 400 million yuan, ensuring the accuracy of each suspect's criminal amount and illegal profit amount.
In this case, the criminal suspect formed a "one-stop" industrial chain of design, production, and marketing, including different identities such as investment manager, lecturer, distributor, salesman, etc., and after the prosecutor accurately distinguished the identity and role of each criminal suspect, the person in charge of the company who played the main role, Xiong and Wang, were identified as the main offenders in accordance with the law, and a sentencing recommendation of more than 10 years imprisonment was submitted; Other persons whose subjective malice is relatively small, the amount of fraud is small, and who play a secondary role in the crime are to be found to be accomplices in accordance with law, and the criminal policy of blending leniency and severity is implemented, and 7 ordinary salesmen whose crimes are minor are not prosecuted.
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