21 members of a fraud gang impersonating government agencies to issue awards have been detained
Release Time:
2013-05-27 18:46
Source:
Beijing Evening News
Impersonating government officials and using the issuance of national-level awards as a gimmick, this fraud gang successfully scammed more than 70 companies in just over two months, swindling over 400,000 yuan. The gang was recently dismantled by the Haidian police, and currently 21 suspects have been detained.
At the end of April, the Economic Investigation Team of Haidian Branch received a report from the National Food Safety Committee: a company was fraudulently using the name of the China Food Safety Supervision and Administration Center to invite food companies to Beijing for meetings and to issue national-level awards, but no such unit exists under the committee.
The Economic Investigation Team immediately formed a special task force with the Ganjiaokou Police Station and on May 7 controlled 21 persons involved in the company, seizing nearly ten thousand "contracts" and invitation letters on the spot.
The company’s legal representative Wang and others confessed to the fraud. According to Wang, they falsely claimed that a "Food Safety Exhibition" would be held in May, inviting food companies from various places to Beijing to attend and exhibit; they promised that those who paid more would receive national-level awards at the meeting. If a company agreed to participate, they would sign a contract and charge fees ranging from 3,800 yuan to 158,000 yuan depending on the award the company wanted to obtain.
It is understood that salespeople received commissions ranging from several hundred to over a thousand yuan for each business deal. In just over two months, the company successfully defrauded more than 70 companies, obtaining over 400,000 yuan in illicit funds. Currently, Wang, Shang, and three others have been criminally detained by Haidian police on suspicion of contract fraud, and 16 employees of the company have been administratively detained for impersonation and fraud. The case is under further investigation.
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