On the grounds that he could help his child choose a school, the man Wang defrauded more than 100 yuan.
On January 8, 2024, The Paper learned from the Shanghai Huangpu District People's Procuratorate (hereinafter referred to as the "Huangpu District Procuratorate") that on September 5, 2023, after the court initiated a public prosecution, the Huangpu District People's Court sentenced the defendant Wang to 11 years and six months in prison, deprived of political rights for one year, and fined RMB 100,000 for fraud in accordance with the law. Wang was dissatisfied with the judgment and appealed to the court. A few days ago, the court of second instance made a ruling rejecting the appeal and upholding the original judgment.
According to the Huangpu District Procuratorate, in March 2022, parent Chen Jie (pseudonym) met Wang through a friend's introduction in order to let his child transfer to a middle school in Xuhui District. The two met at a café in the center of the city for an interview, and Wang boasted that he was an educator and had connections and resources in handling school transfers, and at the same time showed parents his case of successfully helping students apply for admission, and promised that if the final application was unsuccessful, he would receive a full refund. Chen Jie transferred 250,000 yuan to Wang on the spot, and Wang said that it would be done and asked Chen Jie to go home and wait with confidence.
The chat record involved in the case is courtesy of the Huangpu District Procuratorate.
During this period, Chen Jie and Wang have been communicating through WeChat, and Wang proposed that the school needs to arrange interviews and check the children's grades, but due to the epidemic, the interviews that should have been conducted at the school will be held outside the school instead. In order to deceive the victim's trust, Wang found a private room in a teahouse in the city, and spent 2,000 yuan on the Internet to hire a woman, who prepared some test papers and conducted a "thorough test" on the child in the teahouse.
After the interview, whenever Chen Jie asked about the progress of school selection, Wang always prevaricated and delayed on the grounds that the quota had not been confirmed and that he was in the middle of the process. Soon after, Chen Jie's child was admitted to other schools in the enrollment of Xiaosheng junior high school, Chen Jie hurriedly contacted Wang to inquire about the situation, Wang claimed that he could let the child report to the school first, and then enter a middle school in Xuhui District through the transfer, Chen Jie believed it.
In September, Wang informed Chen Jie that he had arranged for a transfer and handed over the transfer application form to Chen Jie to fill in. But until October, the child was still unable to transfer to another school, so Chen Jie wanted to ask Wang to meet, but Wang prevaricated and avoided for various reasons. Chen Jie called the school's admissions ** for verification, only to learn that the transfer application form he filled out at that time was fake, and the school had never received his child's transfer application. Only then did Chen Jie realize that he had been deceived, and the case was discovered.
I don't have a relationship with my family, and I can't afford to help people choose a school, so the money I got was used by myself to pay off my debts and daily expenses. After arriving at the case, the defendant Wang truthfully confessed the facts of the crime. After investigation, from October 2021 to September 2022, Wang used the above-mentioned similar methods to falsely claim that he could arrange school choices and borrowing for other people's children, and successively defrauded 4 victims of a total of more than 100 yuan. During this period, he prevaricated on various grounds, and did not actually help the victim's children to choose a school at the time of the incident, and did not refund the money.
After the Huangpu District Procuratorate initiated a public prosecution, the court made the aforementioned judgment.
*: The Paper.