From the beginning, 2 million extra-large pension fraud gangs were involved: 6 "experience stores" were opened nationwide, and the principal criminals took the lead in raising 3 million yuan to buy ho

From the beginning, 2 million extra-large pension fraud gangs were involved: 6 "experience stores" were opened nationwide, and the principal criminals took the lead in raising 3 million yuan to buy hotels. There are over 6 "experience stores" in China, which receive gifts and attend health classes for free. All the actions ultimately come down to selling health care products, and the activity price is only 4-5 yuan. Recently, Gongjing Branch of Zigong Public Security Bureau of Sichuan Province cracked a major pension fraud case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, arrested 39 suspects in the main case, seized tens of thousands of health care products and health care equipment involved, and destroyed a pension fraud gang based in Henan and radiating 18 provinces across the country.

= Investigating the scene

The Red Star journalist learned that the old-age fraud gang has opened more than 6 "free experience" stores in 18 provinces from October 221 to July 222, and lured the elderly to buy "bear bile powder" and "Rhodiola" with fictitious efficacy and inflated prices by providing free travel, emotional escort, consumer rebates, health talks and induced talk.

According to reports, this case is also a health care product-based pension fraud case with the widest radiation scope, the largest number of victims, the highest level of personnel involved and the largest amount involved since the Zigong police in Sichuan investigated the pension fraud case.

Bring out a big case:

A joint surprise inspection of the health care product warehouse by the two departments

Brought out an accidental surprise inspection of the pension fraud gang

, which uncovered the "evil veil" of this pension fraud gang that spread all over the country.

On April 7, 222, the Market Supervision Bureau of Gongjing District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province received a report from the masses that a large number of health care products and health care equipment were stored in a factory warehouse in Dongqiao Community under its jurisdiction, and the origin and use were in doubt. Immediately, the Gongjing District Market Supervision Bureau and the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Gongjing Public Security Bureau conducted a surprise inspection of the reported warehouse.

"We were all surprised when we opened the warehouse." The police investigating the case recalled that in the warehouse with an area of about 2 square meters, various health care products and health care equipment were densely piled up. After on-site inventory, there are 55 kinds of health care products and health care equipment such as bear bile powder and Rhodiola, with more than 5, pieces; At the scene, the suspects Zhai Moumou and Yang Moumou were blocked.

are the sources of these health care products and health care equipment compliant and are their uses legal? It has become a question asked by market supervision, public security organs and other departments.

= Health products investigated in a warehouse in Gongjing

According to the investigation by Gongjing police, Zhai and Yang are both about 4 years old. They are the market leaders and warehouse administrators of Zigong District of Henan yowza Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd., respectively, and their online manager Li Moumou is the district manager. Since October, 221, people in Zigong City, headed by Li Moumou, have purchased bear bile powder and other health products from Liaoning Guoxiong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for storage, and then sold them to the elderly in Zigong, Leshan, Meishan, Ya 'an and other places in Sichuan at a price far higher than the market price, in order to gain benefits.

After comprehensive analysis and judgment, the police believe that the actions of Li Moumou and others have involved the crime of pension fraud in health care products. On July 8, 222, Gongjing District Branch of Zigong Public Security Bureau filed a case for "Li Moumou and others were suspected of fraud". With the deepening of the investigation, the police found that the case became more and more serious. After being reported step by step, the case was supervised by the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Bureau, led by the Gongjing Public Security Bureau, and a task force composed of criminal investigation departments at the provincial, municipal and district levels was set up to carry out the investigation. The project code was "4.7" health care products pension fraud case.

Old routine:

Free gifts to induce the elderly

False propaganda to sell "health products" at high prices

According to the police handling the case, the fraud method of Li's gang is the usual old routine. By distributing leaflets and verbal invitations, gang members attract the elderly to the designated stores to participate in the promotion meeting with free gifts and free health classes; Then, in the form of words, propaganda videos, etc., the health care products such as "bear bile powder" are fictional and exaggerated, and they have the efficacy of treating diseases, which induces the elderly to buy them.

"Under normal circumstances, they will claim that the market price in bear bile powder is three or four thousand yuan per box, and the activity price is only five or six hundred yuan per box; However, it needs to be purchased according to the course of treatment, and one course of treatment is three boxes. " The police revealed that the health products such as "bear bile powder" stored and sold by Li Moumou and others are a primary wild animal product produced by Liaoning Guoxiong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which has no efficacy; The market price of similar bear bile powder products is only tens of yuan/box.

Take the experience store set up by Li Moumou in Zigong as an example. As of the time of the incident, "yowza Great Health" had 14 stores in Zigong, attracting an average of 9 elderly people to attend classes every day. At present, the police have verified that from October 221 to April 7, 222, 14 stores in Zigong sold more than 2 million yuan of bear bile powder and other health care products and health care equipment.

According to the police investigating the case, Li Moumou, a 4-year-old Anhui native, has been engaged in the health care product sales industry. In 218, Li joined "yowza Great Health" and became the owner of a store. Later, he became Zhou's assistant, managing all stores in Sichuan until the incident.

Extra-large gangs:

More than 6 "free experience" stores have been opened nationwide

The amount involved is nearly 2 million yuan

After thorough investigation, the police investigating the case confirmed that the illegal and criminal acts of Li Moumou and others were not only in a single province, but also a criminal gang with "yowza Great Health" as the core was hiding behind them.

The gang, headed by Qiao Mou, Zhou Moumou, Huang Mou and Li Moumou, has been developing "regional manager-offline dealer-experience store" in many provinces and cities all over the country for a long time. By providing free sightseeing, emotional escort, induced conversation, offline lectures by fake experts, prescribing Chinese medicines, etc., it has taken free gifts, consumer rebates, conference marketing, health talks and other ways to trick the elderly into buying fictional effects.

According to the police handling the case, the case involves a wide geographical scope, many people involved and a huge amount of money involved, which has caused great losses and influences to the elderly, and it is a type of health care products fraud crime that is currently being cracked down on. In order to promote the in-depth investigation of the case and ensure that the case is accurate and thorough, after reporting to the superior, in August this year, the case was listed as a case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, and on August 17 of the same year, a nationwide cluster attack was launched to unify the network.

The police further found out that the "yowza Great Health" pension fraud gang has opened and operated more than 6 "free experience" stores in 18 provinces including Henan, Sichuan and Chongqing, with more than 4 core suspects in the downstream, involving nearly 2 million yuan. Among them, there are more than 9 stores in Sichuan, involving more than 1, victims, involving more than 1 million yuan.

At this point, the "yowza Great Health" pension fraud gang was uprooted. At present, the main suspects of the case, such as Qiao Mou, Zhou Moumou, Huang Mou and Li Moumou, have been arrested by the procuratorate and detained in the detention center; There are more than 4 clues in the country, all of which were handed over to the local police for crackdown and investigation; The joint task force is carrying out the follow-up investigation in an orderly manner.

Behind-the-scenes principal:

Recruiting dozens of disciples

Having taken the lead in raising 3 million yuan to buy a hotel, it was closed in less than a month

The Red Star journalist learned that this case is a health care product-based pension fraud case that has been investigated and dealt with by Zigong police since it was investigated, with the widest radiation range, the largest number of victims, the highest level of people involved and the largest amount involved.

The police handling the case frankly said that in order to handle the case well, before sorting out the clues and interrogating the suspects, the police specially consulted a lot of related materials such as health care products for the aged, talking skills, insight into the psychology of the elderly, etc., so as to understand the motives, modus operandi and coping thinking of such criminals trying to escape the blow, so as to prepare for accurate interrogation.

↑ On-site investigation of a warehouse in Gongjing

This crackdown has not only stopped at the level of stores and store leaders, but also penetrated into the core level of the pension fraud industry. As the main suspects, Qiao Mou, Zhou Moumou, Huang Mou and others are the leaders of the "yowza Great Health" pension fraud gang. They have planned and implemented the management mode, marketing mode, personnel arrangement and benefit distribution of the whole criminal gang.

Zhou moumou, about 4 years old, is from Leshan, Sichuan. He used to be a middle school teacher, mainly involved in national market development, management and profit distribution. According to the clues held by the police, Zhou has dozens of "apprentices" in the industry. He once took the lead in raising more than 3 million yuan to buy a hotel in a certain place in Sichuan, but due to poor management, it closed in less than a month.

Qiao, a 4-year-old native of Henan, once worked as a cook and has been supporting the elderly in health care industry for more than 1 years. In the "yowza Great Health" pension fraud gang, Qiao is the head of the group, with an annual salary of millions, and is mainly responsible for the development and management of the national market and the formulation of the distribution of benefits.

Huang, in his thirties, is from Sichuan. It is said that this person is the best at training, and he is proficient in all aspects of pension fraud, from structure organization to marketing routines, to actual combat and psychology of the elderly. Huang only trains people in the industry, and the cost of teaching the first course is as high as 3 million yuan, so he is called "Huang Caishen" in the industry.

At present, all the above-mentioned main suspects have truthfully confessed their personal criminal facts to the police, and have been arrested by the procuratorate according to law, detained in the detention center and awaiting trial.

= Some suspects were brought back to Zigong

The police suggested:

It is a major typical case of national pension fraud

I hope to improve the anti-fraud ability of the elderly

The police handling the case frankly said that the first difficulty in this case lies in the clue judgment. The gang's stores have implemented a strict membership screening system. Generally, it takes three to four sessions of health education and gift collection to target the elderly, and strangers are not allowed to enter the store. At the same time, many stores have formal legal procedures and products as camouflage, teaching at the wrong time and selling at the wrong time, which is not easy for market supervision, public security organs and other departments to find.

Secondly, the gang has a huge network level, strong anti-investigation awareness, and it is relatively difficult to fix evidence. All false propaganda courseware, videos and materials involved in the case will be deleted, destroyed or hidden after class that day; The offline, online meetings or training records of gang members will be cleared in time, and their daily operations, WeChat, nailing and other group chats, meeting groups, etc. are all temporarily established, and they will be dissolved in time after use, which will bring great difficulties to the investigation and evidence collection of public security organs.

finally, it is difficult to close the net. During the investigation, the police found that the gang is mainly based on the head office, and the downstream area managers, regional managers and store leaders are all over the country, which leads to the whole body. It is difficult to close the net and crack down on it. It is necessary to deploy the command in a unified way to achieve the goal of deep penetration.

The police handling the case said that this case is a typical case of the crime of selling health care products for the elderly, and it is the focus of the national special action on pension fraud. Its modus operandi is concealed, involving a wide area, involving a large number of people, involving a huge amount of money, and has strong characteristics of cross-regional series of group crimes, which has a very bad social impact.

= During the investigation of Zhengzhou yowza Company

, the police found that most of the deceived elderly people used their own pensions to buy health care products, and the amount of single fraud was as high as more than 2, yuan, and the elderly people with certain spending power were locked in by means of membership system and integral consumption incentive system until all their pensions were hollowed out, which seriously violated the personal and property safety and social stability of the victimized elderly groups.

According to reports, this case is also a major typical case discovered since the launch of the national pension fraud special campaign. The criminal groups have distinct levels and the modus operandi is particularly concealed. The successful detection of this case will form a powerful shock to the implementation of the crime of pension fraud by health care products all over the country. At the same time, Zigong police also hope to further enhance the ability of the elderly to know and prevent fraud.

Zhou Xiaobo Red Star journalist Yuan Wei Photo courtesy of the police

Editor Ren Zhijiang Editor He Xianfeng