The first case of mobile phone card real-name system "case within case": the police from the task force teamed up with their friends to extract millions of dollars in bribes.

On December 31, 2022, the case of Yuante Beijing Communication Technology Co., Ltd. executive Yue Yuting and three others for refusing to perform information network security management obligations was retried at the first instance in the Panlong District Court of Kunming City, Yunnan Province.

The case was called the first real-name system for mobile phone cards by the media, and it was revealed that the police on the task force, together with their friends, demanded millions in bribes from the families of the executives involved in the case. focus on.

The case originated from a telecommunications fraud case detected by the Wuhua Branch of the Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau four years ago. It found clues about illegal crimes related to Yuante Beijing Communication Technology Co., Ltd., and five senior executives of Yuante were arrested. The Long District Court sentenced him to a fixed-term imprisonment of one year and four months to one year and ten months or short-term detention. After the verdict was announced, Yue Yuting and three others appealed against the verdict.

Yue Yuting is the business operations director of Yuante Company. She pleads that she has no criminal facts, and it was the clues she reported that helped the police solve the "case within the case". This is a meritorious performance, and the court should exempt her or A lighter punishment. Because the presiding judge promised the appellant’s attorney to obtain more evidence of police bribery, the case will continue to be heard on another date.

The so-called case within the case is that Liu Xin, a police officer from the Wuhua Branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau, and his friend Sun Jie, conspired to "fish for people" and successfully demanded a bribe of 1 million from the family members of the executives involved in the case of Yuante Company. yuan renminbi.

In this case, police officer Liu Xin took advantage of her position in the task force to disclose the relevant information about the case to her friend Sun Jie. Sun Jie contacted the family members of the person involved by phone, and in the name of applying for bail pending trial, she In October 2019, he successfully demanded 1 million yuan in benefits from the wife of Wang Lei, chairman of Yuante Company.

In the same year, Sun Jie was recorded asking for a favor fee from Yue Yuting, another executive of Yuante Company, and was later reported to the police. In February 2021, the Wuhua District Court of Kunming City ruled that Liu Xin and Sun Jie were sentenced to three years and six months and four years in prison respectively for accepting bribes. They were also fined 200,000 yuan each, and 632,000 yuan of illegal gains were confiscated and turned over. Treasury.

In April 2021, CCTV exposed that senior executives of Yuante Company were controlled. Screenshot of CCTV News video

The executives involved reported that someone was asking for bribes

After the investigation of the Yuante Company case was completed, the Panlong Branch of the Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau transferred it to the Panlong District Procuratorate for review and prosecution.

The Panlong District Court of Kunming City found out that in September 2018, Yuante Company handed over tens of thousands of recycled old card numbers to Shandong Yafeida Information Company for selection, and Yafeida Company selected 4,000 from them. A card number with a citizen’s personal WeChat ID requires a new card. After obtaining the new card, Yafeida Company sold it to Kunming Black Rabbit Studio and stole the user's WeChat account bound to the card, resulting in a large number of WeChat IDs being stolen.

In addition, in March 2019, Yuante Company sold 200,000 IoT card numbers to Yafeida Company, and the card was registered in real name by Yafeida Company under the name of Jinan Zhixin Big Data Company, which is actually controlled by Yafeida Company. Down. As of May of the same year, Jinan Zhixin Big Data Company used 4,230 numbers to send 14,329 spam text messages containing gambling content. It was discovered by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology platform monitoring and notified to Yuante Company, but Yuante Company did not make a decision to shut down the number.

The court held that Wang Lei, chairman of Yuante Company, Yue Yuting, director of business operations, and others, as network service providers, failed to fulfill their information network security management obligations stipulated in laws and administrative regulations, causing illegal information to be disseminated in large quantities; knowingly In violation of the real-name management regulations, a large number of recycling cards containing citizens' personal information were still handed over to Yafeida Company for use, causing serious consequences.

Two judgments issued by the Kunming Panlong District Court in December 2020 and April 2021 stated that five people, including Wang Lei, chairman of Yuante Company, and Yue Yuting, director of business operations, refused to fulfill the information For the crime of network security management obligations, the person shall be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of one year and four months to one year and ten months or criminal detention, and shall be fined ranging from 5,000 yuan to 150,000 yuan. After the verdict was announced, Wang Lei and other five people were gradually released after serving their sentences in July 2021.

It is worth noting that when issuing sentencing recommendations, the prosecutor said that given Yue Yuting’s meritorious performance, she could be given a lighter punishment.

Yue Yuting’s criminal performance was to help the police solve a “case within a case” in this case.

On December 15, 2022, Yue Yuting told the Beijing News reporter that while she was detained in the Kunming Detention Center in 2019, she reported to the police interrogating the Wuhua Branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau that there was a stranger The man took the initiative to call her and claimed that he could help settle the case but it would cost money, and she had a recording of the call. She also knew that the strange man had received 1 million yuan in benefits from Tong Jian, the wife of Wang Lei, the person involved in the case.

The Yuante Company case will be heard in court in December 2020. Screenshot of the China Trial Publicity Network

Mysterious phone call

A ten-minute and forty-six second recording issued by Yue Yuting, recorded on October 11, 2019.

In the recording, a man said that the case of Wang Leiyuante Company can be operated, but it may require a lot of money in the later stage. However, Tong Jian may not have that much money, and several high-ranking officials involved in the case may be involved. Pay the money together.

The Wuhua Branch of the Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau opened a case for investigation, and Sun Jie, a man suspected of "fishing for people" fraud, surfaced.

On December 5, 2019, Sun Jie came to the case to confess that the mastermind behind the case was Liu Xin, a police officer from the Wuhua Branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau. Liu Xin said that if there was a chance of success, several suspects such as Wang Lei of Yuante Company could be released on bail pending trial or receive lighter punishments, and the two of them could make money from it.

On June 30, 2020, the Wuhua District Supervisory Committee of Kunming City detained Liu Xin for review. On July 15 of the same year, she was criminally detained by the Wuhua Public Security Bureau.

Sun Jie not only called Yue Yuting and claimed to be able to settle the case, but many parties or family members of Yuante Company involved in the case also received calls from him.

Wang Yufei, the senior executive of Yuante Company involved in the case, recalled that in early November 2019, he was summoned by the Wuhua Branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau. Two or three days before the subpoena, he also received a call from a strange man, saying that he might be subpoenaed in a case involving Yuante Company, and asked him to contact the other party then. Later he learned that the strange man was Sun Jie.

The judgment of Kunming Wuhua District Court in February 2021 stated that the defendant Liu Xin, 42 years old, was a police officer of the Legal Affairs Brigade of Wuhua Branch of Kunming Public Security Bureau. Before the case, he was seconded to the Kunming Public Security Bureau. Yuante Company's legal back office team. The defendant, Sun Jie, is unemployed. After investigation, Sun Jie was found to be the strange man who called Yue Yuting and charged Tong Jian 1 million yuan as a favor fee.

Informed sources in the Yunnan judicial circle revealed that Liu Xin and Sun Jie were classmates at the Yunnan Provincial Police Academy. After graduation, they were assigned to work in the Wuhua Branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau. A few years ago, Sun Jie left the police force because of her mistakes. It is unclear whether she resigned or was fired.

The Wuhua District Procuratorate found out that in September 2019, while working in the Legal Affairs Brigade of the Wuhua Branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau, Liu Xin conspired with Sun Jieliang to take advantage of Liu Xin's secondment to participate in the case of Yuante Company. In order to facilitate the project to obtain relevant case information, Sun Jie came forward to request benefits from Tong Jian, the family member of the person involved, in the name of obtaining bail pending trial for the persons involved. On October 18 of the same year, Sun Jie received a cash payment of 1 million yuan from Tong Jian, and distributed 150,000 yuan to Liu Xin on the same day.

On October 18, 2019, Tong Jian paid Sun Jie a "recruitment" fee of 1 million yuan at Cuihu Ximen Cafe in Kunming. Photo provided by the interviewee

The police on the task force were sentenced to three and a half years in prison

Sun Jie confessed that in September 2019, Liu Xin called and said that she had something to discuss. After meeting, Liu Xin said that she owed him The foreign debt of more than one million yuan is in urgent need of money, and he is currently handling a project that can make money from it. Liu Xin disclosed the case situation to Sun Jie and asked her to record it and contact the suspect's family.

Sun Jie contacted Tong Jian, the wife of suspect Wang Lei, by phone, and told Tong Jian according to the words Liu Xin taught him. In fact, Wang Lei’s alleged crime was not the crime of infringing on citizens’ personal information, but the refusal to perform information network security management obligations. crime.

A few days later, Tong Jian called Sun Jie to invite Sun Jie for an interview. Sun Jie said that he knew the people in the task force and could help Wang Lei and others get bail pending trial or probation. The two parties agreed that Wang Lei would need to pay 2 million yuan to be released on bail pending trial, and that co-defendants Xu Qiusheng and Li Xiaoquan would need 1 million yuan to be released on bail.

Liu Xin confessed that it was he who disclosed to Sun Jie the alleged crimes of the suspects in the Yuante Company case, the coercive measures taken, and the contact information of Tong Jian, the family member of Wang Lei, the person involved in the case.

In addition, he also sent Sun Jie a photo of Wang Lei’s handwritten materials. Liu Xin said that the purpose was to have Sun Jie issue it to Tong Jian so that she could believe in Sun Jie's ability so that Sun Jie and Tong Jian could negotiate to collect the property.

Afterwards, Sun Jie told Liu Xin that she had negotiated with Tong Jian. If the co-defendants Xu Qiusheng and Li Xiaoquan can apply for bail, the other party will pay them according to the standard of 150,000 yuan each.

Tong Jian’s testimony showed that Sun Jie took the initiative to contact and said that she could help Wang Lei obtain bail or a suspended sentence, and said that Wang Lei’s alleged crime had changed from the crime of infringing on citizens’ personal information to refusing to perform Internet public security. Information management crimes.

Sun Jie also took out her mobile phone and showed Tong Jian photos of Wang Lei’s handwritten materials, which were exactly the same as the photos the police officer had shown him before. So she believed that Sun Jie had the ability to help.

If Wang Lei is to be released, Sun Jie said that the co-defendants Xu Qiusheng and Li Xiaoquan must be released first. Because the two of them are the core of the company's business, Mr. Wang's affairs will be easier to handle if they are fine. Sun Jie said that she would pay 1 million yuan for the two people and 2 million yuan for Wang Lei.

Tong Jian still remembers that on October 17, 2019, Sun Jie called him and told him that Xu Qiusheng would be released tomorrow and Li Xiaoquan would be released in another ten or eight days.

On October 18, 2019, the families of Tong Jian and Xu Qiusheng confirmed that they had been released. Tong Jian said that he was afraid of offending this person and it would be difficult to deal with the matter later, so he took the prepared 1 million cash to the agreed coffee shop at the west gate of Kunming Cuihu and handed it over to Sun Jie.

After Sun Jie confessed to receiving 1 million yuan in cash, he deceived Liu Xin into only receiving 150,000 yuan in Xu Qiusheng’s bail benefits. Tong Jian will pay the remaining money after Li Xiaoquan is released on bail.

The Kunming Wuhua District Court also found that Sun Jie spent the remaining 850,000 yuan on 240,000 yuan to purchase two jade carvings and seven jade pendants.

The court held that Liu Xin, as a state employee, took advantage of his position to work with Sun Jie to extort 1 million yuan from others, which was a huge amount and should be prosecuted for bribery.

In February 2021, the Wuhua District Court of Kunming City convicted Liu Xin and Sun Jie of accepting bribes. They were sentenced to three years and six months and four years in prison respectively, and were fined 200,000 yuan each. Illegal gains of 632,000 yuan were collected and turned over to the state treasury.

Beijing News reporter Li Yingqiang and intern Miao Yuxin

Editor Gan Hao

Proofreader Wu Xingfa