Fraud is a common occurrence in China. Recently, the fraudulent tactics behind a “high-end dinner party” in Beijing were revealed when a man surnamed Tian was entrusted with finding connections to get a man, and was cheated out of 1.4 million yuan at a dinner table.
The first review of the Zhengzhou Jinshui District Court showed that in August 2013, the victim, a man surnamed Tian, for Huang for bail, through the defendant Wang Qiuxiang, Leng Zhongshan met Zhang Lianming.
The court found that the defendant’s case was not a good one, but a good one.
The Jinshui District Court excerpted Tiannan’s statement in the verdict, in August 2013, Huang was detained for accepting bribes, Tiannan was entrusted to find a relationship for Huang for bail pending trial. Tiannan and others were led by friends to meet Leng Zhongshan and Wang Qiuxiang.
The two informed Zhang Lianming to come over and introduce each other is a staff member of a national ministry, whose godfather is a leader of the “Central Commission for Discipline Inspection”, Zhang Lianming also said that there is no problem for Huang to do bail.
The night of the meeting, said Tian Nan, Zhang Lianming asked him and Leng Zhongshan to accompany him to a dinner party, the three came together to a private room at the Beijing Hotel, Zhang Lianming introduced this private room is the central leadership to receive foreign guests, the general public do not receive.
The dinner came to more than 20 people, Zhang Lianming introduced to Tian Nan, there are “the secretary of the central leadership”, “the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection”, “military leaders” and so on.
The next day, Zhang Lianming said, and leadership communication, this is no problem, let Tiannan prepare bail money 1.5 million yuan. The first thing you need to do is to pay 1.4 million yuan in cash.
Tiannan recalled that Zhang Lianming saw the money sitting on the coffee table and said that the prosecutor’s office had coordinated, and people could come out in a week or so. But Tiannan for bail has not been done, and he could not contact Zhang Lianming, went to Beijing to find Leng Zhongshan and Wang Qiu Xiang, the two did not answer the phone, he reported to the police.
The Jinshui District Court verdict shows that after the crime, Zhang Lianming was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime of fraud.
Zhang Lianming recalled after his arrest that he got 600,000 cash from Tiannan at that time to Zhang Mouqi, Zhang Jean, etc.. The remaining 800,000 yuan, Tian Nan transferred to his account name within the bank, he transferred 300,000 yuan to Wang Qiu Xiang, back to Beijing, and transferred 200,000 yuan to Zhou Mou Dong, the remaining 300,000 yuan to pay off his credit card.
Since then, Zhang Mouqi and Zou Moudong can not be contacted, he also changed his cell phone number.
Zou Moudong confessed that he knew Wang Qiuxiang, Leng Zhongshan is specialized in helping people run things, Zhang Lianming also said, to be able to take orders from them, to find relations in Beijing to take care of things will be able to make money.
On January 20 this year, the Jinshui District Court sentenced Wang Qiu Xiang to five years in prison in the first instance. The court found that Wang Qiu Xiang and Zhang Lian Ming implemented a joint fictitious facts, cheating people of money, is an accessory in the joint crime.
After the sentence was handed down, Wang Qiu Xiang filed an appeal. She said she was not aware of Zhang Lianming’s intention to commit fraud, and did not cheat and share the spoils with Zhang.
On April 1, the Zhengzhou Intermediate Court rejected Wang Qiu Xiang’s appeal and upheld the original verdict. Wang Qiu Xiang is not convinced and intends to appeal to the Henan Provincial High Court, requesting that he be acquitted.
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