How many people participated in the mega-pyramid scheme in Sichuan?

Sichuan cracked a large pyramid scheme: the number of people involved was as high as 220 thousand, and the amount exceeded 10 billion.

At the beginning of this year, the police in Dan Ling County of Meishan City cracked a large pyramid scheme. The Xinyuan Enjoy Economic Organization (hereinafter referred to as "Xinyuan Enjoy Economic Innovation"), headed by the criminal suspect Yang Zhiwei and others, used the name of the country to set up the operation platform of "National Enjoy Economic Innovation Trading Center", and set up recommendation awards and management awards with high returns as bait to expand its membership and seek huge benefits.

▲ The picture shows the arrest scene.

On July 23, Meishan police informed that the organization hired "mathematicians" to calculate the "best investment ratio", hired more than 30 professional and technical teams to build a network, held various large-scale concerts to promote the momentum, rented office space in many high-end office buildings in Chengdu, lived in high-end villas, and bought many luxury cars, among which Rolls-Royce cars were worth over 10 million, which was a luxury.

The total membership exceeds 220,000.

The amount involved is 654.38+002 billion yuan.

From August 2065438 to August 2007, the public security economic investigation department of Meishan City, Sichuan Province, according to the reports of the masses, found that there was pyramid selling crime in Meishan Branch of Xinyuan Mall in Dongpo District of Meishan City. After follow-up investigation, it was found that all the criminal chains and clues of the company pointed to the "National Economic Innovation Trading Demonstration Center" headquartered in Chengdu. 20 17 10 3 1, Meishan public security bureau filed an investigation against Yang Zhiwei and others for the crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes.

After investigation, since July 2006, Yang Zhiwei and others have illegally set up the National Economic Innovation Trading Demonstration Center, registered Sichuan Xinyuan Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Sichuan Xingxinyuan E-Commerce Co., Ltd., and successively set up hundreds of shell-related companies with the prefixes of Xinyuan and * * *.

In order to rapidly expand the scale and achieve illegal purposes, Yang Zhiwei pretended to be the president of Zhonglian Film and Television Company, made false propaganda with the background of central enterprises, a number of large-scale projects and a large number of assets, and held concerts and forums in many places across the country to create momentum. Under the guise of "national platform" and "* * * enjoying the economy", he set up 28 false industrial chains including building materials, agriculture, mining and media with the so-called consumption rebate as the gimmick.

In just over a year, the development members have spread all over 365,438+0 provinces (cities, autonomous regions), Hongkong, Taiwan Province, Malaysia and other places. By the time of the crime, the total number of members had reached more than 220,000, and the amount involved was 654.38 million yuan, which seriously endangered the social and economic order of the country. The Provincial Public Security Department attached great importance to it and quickly set up a task force led by the Provincial Economic Investigation Corps and undertaken by the Meishan Public Security Bureau to comprehensively promote the investigation work.

Yang Zhiwei and other 52 people were transferred for review and prosecution.

After careful investigation and careful planning, on October 22, 20 18/KLOC-0, according to the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and the Provincial Public Security Department, the task force mobilized more than 500 police officers to attack quickly in two ways, and carried out centralized arrest operations in Chengdu and Meishan at the same time. * * * 9 business premises of this criminal organization were seized, and 82 suspects including Yang Zhiwei, the actual controller of Xinyuan Department Store, were successfully arrested.

After the suspect was brought to justice, the task force focused on "trial", focused on iron cases and high-quality cases, and concentrated the superior police force to carry out investigations and strikes. Through the interrogation of the ringleaders, core members and key personnel of various industrial chains, the structural system and criminal facts of the MLM organization were found out, and the principal offender Yang Zhiwei and other key personnel confessed to the criminal facts of organizing and leading MLM activities; Focusing on the criminal facts of MLM organizations and participants, comprehensively clean up the objective evidence such as documentary evidence, physical evidence, cash flow evidence and electronic evidence involved, and fix the evidence by means of on-site inspection, electronic inspection, judicial accounting audit and judicial appraisal.

After fighting day and night, on February 28th this year, 25 key members, including He Si and Li Tang, were arrested by the procuratorial organs on suspicion of organizing and leading pyramid schemes.

During the "Cheyenne" series of special operations, in order to promote the work of ad hoc litigation, ensure the success of the operation and make this case a fine case that can stand the test of law and history, the police of the task force made unremitting efforts and went to Shandong, Guangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Hubei, Guizhou and other places to carry out investigations, and cooperated with the procuratorial organs to supplement and improve the evidence materials and make various preparations before being transferred to prosecution. On July 16, 52 people in this case, headed by Yang Zhiwei, were transferred to the procuratorate for examination and prosecution according to law for the crime of organizing and leading pyramid schemes.

According to the police, the case is a pyramid scheme led by the organization with the largest number of personnel, the largest capital and the widest area in Sichuan.

Source: Netease News