Cctv newsSome time ago, Dalian police smashed a mega-pyramid scheme called "Public Entrepreneurship Sharing Platform" and arrested all 144 key members. However, the cause of the collapse of this huge criminal gang was actually a seemingly insignificant clue.
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As can be seen in the video, in a large banquet hall, a middle-aged woman is giving an impassioned speech on the stage, and the audience is full. Wealth dream, wealth freedom, who would have thought that behind these seemingly passionate topics, there is a huge scam hidden? In June 2019, Dalian police dispatched thousands of police officers and smashed a criminal organization distributed in many places. So at first, how did this gang enter the police’s sight? How did the investigators catch it all? Things have to start from the end of 2018.
Zhou Jiawei, Instructor of Economic Investigation Brigade of wafangdian city Public Security BureauWe have a place in Wafangdian, which used to have a lot of idle houses because of development and real estate development, and this place also has some places to play. In October of 2018, we suddenly found that the number of people in this place suddenly increased.
At that time, it was in the off-season of tourism, but the local police found that there was a gathering of migrants in wafangdian city, and the number was somewhat alarming. Moreover, the increase is not a week and a half. At first, for example, there were thousands of people, and later it reached tens of thousands. These people came and lived here for a long time.
According to the observation of the police, these people are neither like tourists nor like to work or do business. So what are they doing? In order to solve the secret, the investigator decided to make an unannounced visit in disguise.
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As can be seen in the video, there are many people sitting in the banquet hall, mostly middle-aged and elderly people. The venue is orderly, and everyone is watching the performances on the stage seriously or listening to the people on the stage.
Liang Jianxiong, Deputy Chief of No.1 Brigade of Economic Investigation Detachment of Dalian Public Security BureauAt that time, there was a very dense crowd between tables, and then everyone was in high spirits. Then there will be a performance on the stage of this meeting, and there will be another performance, just dancing and singing.
Police investigating pyramid schemes surfaced.
The police investigation found that this "mass entrepreneurship sharing platform" is well organized, and the assembly of members is very hidden. It is not easy to join it. There will be people at the door to guard the door, and some people are patrolling and watching the wind. In this case, we observed that not everyone can go in and out at will, and they need tickets, or some are bracelets, and bracelets of different colors can enter.
In order not to alarm the snake, the investigators did not follow up rashly and did not dare to stay at the scene too much. The investigator visited several times and didn’t find that he was selling some related commodities or investing in some projects. He was simply saying that we are a family and we should start a business together. It is said that the mass entrepreneurship platform is now our gospel, leading everyone to make money together.
There are no related products and no specific projects. However, this so-called "mass entrepreneurship sharing platform" claims to make people rich. With the deepening of the investigation, the true face of this so-called entrepreneurial platform is gradually revealed.
Liang Jianxiong, Deputy Chief of No.1 Brigade of Economic Investigation Detachment of Dalian Public Security Bureau: I can hear something scattered at the scene, saying look at how much money you earned today, saying that I got this, and I earned 100,000 this month. That said that I was not as good as you this month, and I earned 80,000. That’s okay, that is, I feel that the amount of money earned by everyone is very high. Generally speaking, the society is quite high.
Raise funds to develop offline and get returns by pulling people’s heads.
The police found that this so-called mass entrepreneurship sharing platform, they don’t sell any products, and there is no so-called project. Instead, they raise funds by pulling people’s heads and get returns by developing offline.
Shi Chunlei, deputy detachment leader of Criminal Investigation Detachment of Dalian Public Security Bureau: In the name of attracting people, everyone pays 49,800 yuan so that they can join the organization and share this wealth, this situation has defrauded more than 10,000 people to join the mass enterprise sharing platform.
Claiming that wealth sharing tricked tens of thousands of people into joining pyramid schemes
This so-called entrepreneurial platform has defrauded more than 10,000 people to join in the name of wealth sharing. One of them, named Liu, gave up his business with an annual income of millions in order to join the MLM organization.
Zhou Jiawei, Instructor of Economic Investigation Brigade of wafangdian city Public Security BureauAt first, he opened a restaurant in his hometown, and the hotel business is very good, with a profit of about one million yuan a year. Then he also knows many friends when he runs a restaurant. He often goes to eat alone, and he is also a local who often goes to eat at his place.
Liu is in his forties, a native of Inner Mongolia. The hotel he runs has a considerable income and a very rich life. One day, a regular customer who often came to the restaurant talked with Liu about a zero-cost and high-profit business, which aroused his great interest.
Zhou Jiawei, Instructor of Economic Investigation Brigade of wafangdian city Public Security BureauHis friend said that as long as I develop a person to come in, I can make money. Look at how much money I have earned now. If you have worked hard for more than one million yuan a year, I can earn 4.5 million yuan for this project.
Thinking that he could earn far more money than he does now without having to run the hotel hard, Liu finally couldn’t resist the temptation and paid 49,800 yuan to join this MLM organization called "Public Entrepreneurship Sharing Platform".
Zhou Jiawei, Instructor of Economic Investigation Brigade of wafangdian city Public Security BureauBecause he runs a restaurant, he knows many people, so he tried to tell a few friends about it. Friends trust him more, and friends also pay money. So he stopped all the restaurants at home and devoted himself to this industry after coming to this place.
The so-called pulling people’s heads and bringing new people by members of MLM organizations all use the trust of familiar people to start with relatives and friends and then brainwash them step by step.
Zhou Jiawei, Instructor of Economic Investigation Brigade of wafangdian city Public Security BureauThen he often packages himself. He drives a luxury car when he goes home, and his clothes are quite popular. But the so-called luxury cars, some of which they bought with loans, some of which they borrowed or rented. In this case, let everyone believe that he did earn money, and be curious about what career he was with outside, and in what way he could make a fortune and make money so quickly.
Members of MLM organizations have identified many people’s greed for making quick money or even getting rich overnight, constantly instilling in them cases of some people making big money successfully, and at the same time, under the background of national development strategy, increasing people’s trust, making people feel that all this is true and reliable.
Unified management members form an "administrative Committee"
According to the survey, the number of members of this "mass entrepreneurship sharing platform" MLM organization exceeds 10,000. So what is the structure of this criminal gang? Why can it grow so fast?
The core members form a "management Committee" to manage MLM organizations in a unified way.
The police found that several core members of this criminal gang formed a so-called "Industry Management Committee", which is called "Administrative Committee" for short. Under it, there are publicity group, conference group, logistics support group and discipline inspection group, which are responsible for the unified management of the whole MLM organization.
Liang Jianxiong, Deputy Chief of No.1 Brigade of Economic Investigation Detachment of Dalian Public Security Bureau: The personnel of this MLM organization should be regulated in all aspects of life and work. For example, it will stipulate that no matter how large the assembly is, no more than three people are allowed to walk together to avoid the formation of people gathering and causing social concern. Another point is that it is not allowed to talk about the project of mass entrepreneurship sharing platform when people are discussing outside, and it is also for the sake of the secrecy of the development of MLM organizations.
This MLM organization takes "6 floors and 42 people" as a basic unit, that is, the basic disk. The top C3 level is called "the leader", while the newly joined members rank in the development level, and can only be promoted by bringing new people into the game.
Song Pengfei, Captain of the Intelligence Brigade of Economic Investigation Detachment of Dalian Public Security Bureau.: If you look at the so-called industry rules, a full plate of a C3 level, if the top out, your normal profit should be 4.5 million. Moreover, their brainwashing of insiders in the industry is very serious, which basically makes you feel that everyone should wait to get the 4.5 million in a short time.
The MLM organization was cracked down by the police.
In fact, this is not the first time that the local police have fought with this pyramid scheme. As early as the beginning of 2018, wafangdian city Public Security Bureau cracked down on it.
Zhou Jiawei, Instructor of Economic Investigation Brigade of wafangdian city Public Security Bureau: Now the model is called the mass entrepreneurship sharing platform, so we used to deal with his pyramid scheme called community pension planning and private voluntary financial management. In fact, they are all the same model, but they just changed their names. Judging from the current investigation, these people in the later period are the fish that escaped from the net in the earlier period and developed again.
This MLM organization named "Public Entrepreneurship Sharing Platform" has grown and developed through continuous division. If only their core team is destroyed, it will not fundamentally destroy its entire architecture system, and the remaining members will continue to fission like "cancer cells". For example, the two leaders of this organization now — — Chen Mou and Ban Mou were the bottom members of the gang a few years ago.
Accurately strike 144 key members, and no one escapes.
This time, the police expanded the level of attack. On June 17, 2019, the Dalian police dispatched more than a thousand elite police officers to form 129 arrest teams, accurately positioning each suspect and launching the network-closing operation. In this operation, Dalian police arrested 144 core and backbone members of pyramid schemes, dismissed more than 10,000 bottom-level pyramid schemes, and frozen nearly 6,000 accounts involving more than 85 million yuan. The case is currently under further investigation.