Entering ChinaTea is originally a consumer product, but it has been turned into a wealth management product by some criminals to defraud and make profits. On March 10, the reporter learned that the Jiangdu Procuratorate concluded a case in which Tong, a Jiangdu woman, used the so-called “electronic Pu’er tea” as bait to illegally collect nearly one million yuan.
As early as April 2023, Ms. Wang, a resident of Jiangdu, was introduced by an acquaintance and met Tong, the owner of the teahouse. After getting acquainted with the relationship, Tong recommended a financial platform of “electronic Pu’er tea” to her, claiming that she would participate in the repurchase of “Pu’er tea” activities on the platform every day and make sure that she would not lose money.
Ms. Wang introduced: If you buy “Pu’er tea” and increase the price by 4% before putting it on the shelves, someone will buy her products. After deducting the 2.5% listing fee, she can get a 1.5% return. She invested 10,000 yuan and earned 150 yuan on the same day.
After testing the water for about a month, Ms. Wang made a huge profit, so she increased her investment to 100,000 yuan, but no one cared about “electronic Pu’er tea” after it was put on the shelves, so she woke up and immediately called the police. The police investigation found that there were 115 investors on the platform involved in the case, who used virtual Pu’er tea to play drumming and passing flowers every day, which was suspected of illegal pyramid schemes.
Liu Qinyang, deputy director of the Ordinary Crime and Major Crime Prosecution Department of the Jiangdu District People’s Procuratorate, introduced: “An illegal pyramid scheme platform software, the so-called Pu’er tea traded on it, is actually not physical, it is all virtual goods. ”
After Tong was arrested and brought to justice, she confessed that in February 2023, she learned about the marketing model of “electronic Pu’er tea” through a friend, and she developed a downline in Jiangdula, and she took a cut of every transaction as personal income, and made illegal profits of nearly one million yuan as of the time of the case. But after 2 months of operation, the platform collapsed because there was no new funds to take over.
Liu Qinyang, deputy director of the Ordinary Crime and Major Crime Prosecution Department of the Jiangdu District People’s Procuratorate, said: “Caught in a state of no one trading, a large amount of this so-called electronic Pu’er tea is piled up on the hands of these participants. ”
Recently, Tong was prosecuted by the Jiangdu Procuratorate in accordance with the law for the crime of organizing and leading pyramid marketing activities. Taking into account the circumstances of his return of stolen goods, admission of guilt and acceptance of punishment, the court sentenced Tong to one year and six months in prison, suspended for two years, and fined 10,000 yuan after trial.
