Dawan NewsExtortion and extortion of a number of e-commerce companies, including three squirrels, and the two defendants were punished by law. Recently, the Yijiang District People's Court of Wuhu City concluded a case of extortion, and the defendant Li committed the crime of extortion and was sentenced to three years and six months in prison and fined 15,000 yuan; Defendant Liu Mouxian committed the crime of extortion and was sentenced to three years imprisonment, suspended for three years, and fined 10,000 yuan; The instruments of the crime are to be confiscated in accordance with law.
From October 2021 to April 2023, Li, together with Liu Mouxian and others, bought food from 17 e-commerce companies such as three squirrels online, and after receiving the food, Li deliberately added hair, plastic, insects and other foreign objects to the purchased food or made the food moldy, and then claimed compensation from the e-commerce company on the grounds of food safety problems, and threatened the e-commerce company by means of online ** and complaints. Through the above methods, Li, Liu and others have extorted more than 200 times from 17 e-commerce companies, and the total amount involved is more than 10 yuan.
The reporter learned that on March 27, 2023, three squirrels reported that multiple accounts asked for refunds on the grounds of food safety issues after purchasing the company's food, and the company made three refunds, totaling more than 2,000 yuan, but it was found that it was the same Alipay account for the refund, so it is suspected that someone is blackmailing the company on the grounds of food safety.
Although the amount of money involved in the report was not high, a large number of collusion and merger investigations were discovered. The Internet Security Brigade of the Yijiang Branch of the Wuhu Municipal Public Security Bureau investigated and found that the actual user of the Alipay account was Liu Mouxian, and through the expansion of character relationships and the analysis of capital flow, another suspect Li, found that Liu Mouxian and Li were "post-00" couples, and the relationship between the two was extremely close.
In the process of penetrating the online activities and capital flow of the two, it was found that the victims included many well-known food e-commerce companies such as "Wuhan BESTORE Store", "Shanghai Laiyifen", "Wufangzhai" and "Zhengzhou Shushang Granary Food", and sorted out more than 50 yuan of funds suspected of being involved in the case. On April 1, 2023, after having sufficient evidence, Yi Jiang** arrested the suspects Liu Mouxian and Li in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, and found that the third person Liu Mouxian's sister Liu Mouyu was involved in the case.
Combined with the preliminary investigation, it was found that the three suspects had a clear division of labor and overlapping functions. Among them, the suspects Liu Mouxian and Li Mouxian first bought food on Tmall and Jingdong, and mailed it to Bijie City, Guizhou Province and Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and the suspect Liu Mouyu was responsible for receiving the goods in Changzhou.
Suspects Liu Mouxian and Liu Mouyu posted on Xiaohongshu after taking pictures, and finally sent **or** to the merchant, using screenshots of Xiaohongshu to intimidate, and cooperating with the words to blackmail. If the merchant raised an objection to the compensation, Liu Mouxian and Li would threaten the merchant by reporting to 12315, not deleting the post, Weibo, Douyin**, etc., to blackmail the merchant. Many merchants have no choice but to compromise and "compensate" them.
With the intervention of **, the truth emerges. The three suspects in the case were taken criminal coercive measures and the case was transferred for prosecution, and this online extortion case was also selected as one of the top 10 typical cases of the Ministry of Public Security's national crackdown on online rumors.
After trial, the court held that Li, together with Liu Mouxian and others, deliberately added foreign objects or made the food moldy in the food purchased online for the purpose of illegal possession, and demanded compensation from the e-commerce company on the grounds of food safety problems, and forcibly demanded other people's property more than 200 times with a total value of more than 10 yuan, a huge amount, and their behavior has constituted the crime of extortion and extortion, and it is a joint crime.
Li X played a major role in the joint crime and is the principal offender, and shall be punished in accordance with law in accordance with all the crimes in which he participated; Liu Mouxian played a secondary or auxiliary role in the joint crime, and is an accomplice, and shall be given a lighter punishment in accordance with law; Both defendants were able to truthfully confess their crimes after being brought into the case, and voluntarily admitted guilt and accepted punishment, and may be given a lighter punishment or lenient disposition respectively in accordance with law; The two defendants have returned all their illegal gains to the victim units, obtained the written understanding of some of the victim units, and voluntarily paid the fines, and may be given lighter punishments as appropriate.
The Wuhu Yijiang District People's Court made the above judgment on the basis of the circumstances of the two defendants' crimes and their expressions of remorse. In addition, the reporter learned from Wuhu Yijiang** that Liu Mouyu was under the age of 18 when he committed the crime at the time of the crime, and the circumstances were minor and he was an accomplice, and the procuratorate made a non-prosecution treatment.
Dawan News reporter Chen Mu Intern Yang Chuncao.