Promising to purchase gray fabrics at high prices and then reselling them after receiving the goods on credit, a group of people defrauded more than 30 companies in this “empty-handed” approach. Recently, the Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau reported the detection of a series of large-scale cross-regional contract fraud cases and the arrest of 13 suspects, with the amount involved reaching more than 38 million yuan.
In early February this year, the Economic Investigation Brigade of Keqiao District Branch of Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau received a report that Keqiao Textile A group of “empty-handed” foreign trade scammers have appeared on the market. They promise to purchase gray fabrics at high prices, but after defrauding the trust of business owners, they only pay a small amount of money and defraud a large amount of gray fabrics on credit. The victimized company only discovered that they had been deceived after repeated demands. Deceived. The Economic Investigation Team visited and investigated and found that there were more than a dozen companies that were defrauded, with total losses reaching tens of millions of yuan.
The police immediately set up a task force, activated the case clue research and judgment mechanism, and launched a comprehensive investigation.
After several months of investigation and evidence collection, the task force determined that the two brothers Wang Moumou from Hubei, Li Moumou from Shaoxing, and Wu Moumou and others are suspected of committing major crimes. Based on capital flow analysis and judgment, the police found that this was a planned and organized professional fraud group that integrated procurement, processing, and sales. It spanned four domestic provinces, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Hubei, and involved the United States, Mexico and other countries. At about 6 o’clock on June 9, Keqiao police dispatched more than 50 police officers to Jiangsu, Hubei and other places to launch a centralized operation to close down the persons involved.
After investigation, since October 2018, the contract fraud criminal gang headed by the suspect Wang knew that they had no financial ability to perform the contract and pretended to engage in export trade. banner, defrauding enterprises and business households from gray fabrics. Afterwards, they falsely claimed that all the goods were exported to Mexico and other places, and the payment for the goods had not been recovered. In fact, they had disposed of the goods at low prices abroad and domestically, and privately transferred the recovered payment to the victim companies, refusing to pay them. When the company cannot get the money and finally resorts to civil litigation, the gang will evade civil liability by changing the company’s legal representative and purchase a new shell company to continue the fraud. According to statistics, they defrauded more than 30 companies in four provinces, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, out of a total of more than 38 million yuan. Excluding the more than 10 million yuan paid, they actually defrauded more than 28 million yuan.
The police reminded that Keqiao Textile Market is the largest textile fabric market in Asia, with customers from various overseas countries. When customers fail to pay for goods, the cost of international litigation is huge; if it involves contract fraud, it is extremely difficult to obtain evidence and it is very difficult to recover the stolen goods. Therefore, relevant companies and market operators must be vigilant and beware of the “white wolf with empty gloves” style. “scam. </p
