All I saw were scammers, financing companies were scammed 50 million yuan by "leather bag companies": I once went to Shanghai for on-site investigation
A few years ago, a trading company in Shanghai transferred more than 60 million yuan of debt between the company and a large communication company to a financing company in Guangdong for capital turnover, obtaining more than 50 million yuan of financing from the company. After the contract was signed, the money was also paid out, but the financing company found that not only was the trading company a "leather bag company", but also the managers of the various companies that signed agreements with them were all pretending to be scammers. Recently, the People's Procuratorate of Hongkou District, Shanghai, prosecuted three individuals, including Zhang and Lin, who participated in the "bureau" fraud, for the crime of contract fraud.
At the beginning of 2019, a trading company in Shanghai was introduced to a financing company in Guangdong, claiming that the company had an outstanding debt of more than 60 million yuan for a mobile phone order with a large communication company. However, the company's recent cash flow urgently needed cash flow and wanted to transfer this debt to the financing company for factoring at a price of more than 50 million yuan.
After preliminary communication, the financing company staff went to the commercial company to conduct an investigation. During the investigation, the trading company arranged everything in an orderly manner. A manager surnamed Chen also presented the financing company with materials such as the large-scale procurement transaction contract and transaction vouchers signed between the company and the communication company, and signed relevant transfer contracts with the financing company. Under the contact of Manager Chen, the staff of the financing company came to the communication company again to communicate and negotiate procurement transactions with Manager Liang of the company. During this period, Manager Liang also asked two staff members who managed the company's official and private seals to stamp and confirm various commitment letters and contracts.
After everything came to a halt, the financing company quickly transferred the money into the account of the trading company. But just a few months later, the financing company visited the communication company again and found that the communication company had not signed any procurement contracts with a certain trading company in Shanghai, and the so-called "Manager Liang" and staff of the communication company did not exist.
The financing company realized that it had been deceived, and then went to confront the trading company, only to find that the trading company was just a shell, so they had to report to the police station. After the police filed the case, they quickly arrested Guo and three others who were impersonating "Manager Chen" and other staff members of the trading company. Zhang, Lin, Lin, and Lin, who were impersonating "Manager Liang" and other staff members of the communication company, as well as the boss who was behind the scenes, all fled. The police then began to pursue them.
After Guo and others arrived at the case, they confessed to being instructed by the behind the scenes boss Chen to forge a purchase contract with a certain communication company. "The boss said that his funding chain was broken and he wanted to 'borrow chicken to lay eggs' to make some money, promising us some benefits. We formed a leather bag company and forged business information. I became the general manager, and others acted as representatives and sales representatives, and then traded with a financing company in Guangdong through intermediaries. Guo explained that the more than 50 million yuan obtained from the financing company was transferred by the boss Chen after they shared the profits.". Later, after being prosecuted by the Hongkou Procuratorate, Guo and three others have been sentenced to punishment for contract fraud.
Not long after, Lin Moujia, who had fled, voluntarily surrendered and assisted the police in capturing Zhang and Lin Mouyi. After Zhang arrived at the case, he explained that he contacted the behind the scenes boss Chen, pretending to be the sales manager of a certain communication company and negotiating with the financing company. "Boss Chen asked Lin Moujia and Lin Mouyi to 'wait' in a car under the communication company building. I went into the meeting room of the building, pretended to be the manager, and waited for the people from the trading company to bring the financing company's staff to investigate. I talked to them about the transfer of debt using the agreed upon language, then called and pretended to call two staff members in charge of seals to stamp. Lin Moujia and Lin Mouyi got out of the car and entered the meeting room of the building to stamp with the fake seals, pretending that they had come from their workstations."
In this way, they cooperated internally and externally, playing different roles, creating the illusion of debt between commercial and communication companies, and deceiving financing companies to transfer the false debt to themselves. After investigation, excluding the money refunded by the defendants after the incident, the financing company actually lost more than 47 million yuan.
After hearing this case, the Hongkou Procuratorate believes that Zhang, Lin A, and Lin B, with the purpose of illegal possession, fabricated facts to defraud others of property during the signing and performance of contracts, with a particularly large amount of money. Their actions have all violated the Criminal Law, and they should be held criminally responsible for contract fraud. The behind the scenes boss Chen is still being pursued.
