Chongqing Tonghe Shopping Mall, formerly known as Ange Company, was a pyramid scheme company that was destroyed by Jilin police on 20/0/0. Open the online homepage of Tonghe Mall, and find that it is ostensibly a shopping website, mainly engaged in e-commerce.
Set up 480 yuan and 4800 yuan membership. Being a member is eligible to develop offline and open a physical store. This money can buy the products of the website, and then you need to develop members. The development of the dual-track system is 1 change to 2, 2 to 4, 4 to 8, and each layer can win a prize. There are 5 orders on each floor, and you can get the quantity prize. In this way, the daily salary system was implemented. Don't sell products, just be a development member. Therefore, it has obvious pyramid selling nature.
Through police investigation, Tonghe Mall not only develops e-commerce, but also has physical stores. As long as you pay 4800 yuan, you can open your own shop as a boss. The police went to a physical store in Chongqing to investigate and found that selling products in physical stores is just a cover, and the main purpose is to develop offline. The owner of the physical store offers training courses for the development members in the development zone and gives regular classes to the target members. The product sold is a cover, and the main purpose is to develop the offline.
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The following is the report of 20 1 1 Jilin police arresting the predecessor of Tonghe Mall:
On September 29th, 2009, Changyi Industrial and Commercial Branch received a report from the masses, which reflected that someone was conducting pyramid selling activities in Lianhua Community of Changyi District, and the pyramid selling products were products of Hong Kong Ange Pharmaceutical Group. After investigation, Changyi Industrial and Commercial Branch found five accounts involved in the case in the name of individuals, and with the cooperation of Changyi Branch of Jilin Public Security Bureau, five accounts involved in the case were frozen in June 65438+1October 65438+June 2009.
20 10 65438+ 10 On October 20th, Jilin taxi driver Xu Jian, passenger Cong Wei and their friends found 200,000 yuan in cash in the taxi, and the three of them voluntarily handed the money over to the police. Later, Shucheng and Nanjinghua in Tianjin contacted the police and claimed that they had lost their money. Originally, the police checked the owner's information and loss according to the procedure. If everything is true, they can return the money to the owner, but the police found problems when checking the two owners.
According to reports, at that time, for the purpose of money, Li Hua said it was used to purchase medicinal materials, and Zhang Shucheng said it was business. The contradictory words of the two owners caught the attention of the police. The police further verified the owner and found that when Zhang Shucheng provided identity documents, the identity card information given could not be verified and was considered as a fake identity card.
In addition, the police inspected Zhang Shucheng and Li Hua's personal belongings and found that both of them had some information about pyramid schemes. A piece of paper caught the attention of the police. More than 20 names were recorded on it, and each name was followed by a string of numbers and a telephone number.
After the trial, Zhang Shucheng admitted that he was "illegally operating" the company. It turns out that on 20 10, the industrial and commercial department of Jilin City has frozen the pyramid scheme account of the company. Knowing that the account was blocked, Zhang Shucheng, Li Hua and others came to Jilin City with cash, ready to "settle" the account freeze. Unexpectedly, the two left 200,000 yuan of "activity funds" in the taxi.
According to Zhang Shucheng's account, the police arrested another "colleague" in a hotel in Jilin City-Liu Qiancheng, Yuan Xiangjiang and others who were teaching students. After further examination, it is known that these people are the backbone members of a company called Ange. The company is registered as "Hong Kong Ange Pharmaceutical Group" in Hong Kong, producing washing products.
20 10 in March, the "1.2 1" task force of Jilin Public Security Bureau was established to fully investigate the "Ange" pyramid scheme. According to the investigators, because the case involved Jilin, Changchun, Tianjin, Guangzhou and other cities, involving a large number of people, complicated internal relations of the organization and huge amount of money involved, the task force decided to collect evidence first and then wait for an opportunity to close the net.
During the trial, the police learned that all the new members of Ange Company were registered on the website of Ange Company and traded in the form of electronic money instead of cash. On the internal website of Ange Company, there is a member inquiry function.
The police spent three days and three nights looking for the online list one by one, starting with the names of junior members in Jilin City. To the police's shock, the organization has tens of thousands of MLM personnel involved.
The police handling the case said that in order to make the case more intuitive, it took them nearly half a month to draw all the names into a tree-like relationship structure with a height of about 2 meters and a width of about 1.5 meters. There are more than 1.5 thousand names in the picture. These lists are only a part of the B area of the MLM network, accounting for only one tenth of the entire MLM list.
20 10 in April, the bus branch of Jilin Public Security Bureau decided to close the network and soon captured some backbones. According to the relationship structure map drawn, the task force quickly captured more than one key member of MLM organization 10. In a large number of subsequent trials, the task force found a more important clue: the only members of the MLM organization captured in Area B were Zhang Shucheng and Liu Qiancheng. In fact, there was a larger branch of MLM in Area A. ..
Subsequently, according to the clues obtained from the trial, the task force successively arrested more than 50 criminal suspects such as Zhang Shucheng, Fan Lingzhi, Sun Lianfeng and Sun Hongle in Area A from Tianjin, Langfang, Jinan, Taiyuan, Guangzhou, Beijing and Dalian, and seized more than 500 deceived people. At this point, the task force has mastered enough evidence to prove that Ange Company is a pyramid scheme company.
20 10 On July 23rd, Zhang Hang, chairman of Hong Kong Ange Pharmaceutical Group, surrendered himself to the public security organ. At this time, Gu Haohua, the first member of Ange MLM organization and the system maker of this MLM organization, has also been arrested. So far, this mega-pyramid scheme gang with huge organization and clear division of labor, involving more than 65,438+10,000 people, involving hundreds of millions of yuan, and involving more than 10 provinces and cities was officially smashed.
2010165438+129 October, some MLM personnel of this organization were prosecuted by the People's Procuratorate of Fengman District, Jilin City. 20 10, 10 On February 29th, Fengman District People's Court sentenced Zhang Shucheng to three years' imprisonment, suspended for five years, and fined him 500,000 yuan. Liu Qiancheng was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, and fined 500,000 yuan. Other members of the organization were also sentenced according to law.
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