From the beginning, it involved 200 million mega-pension fraud gangs: 600 "experience stores" were opened nationwide, and the principal took the lead in raising 30 million yuan to buy hotels.

More than 600 "experience stores" have been set up in China, giving free gifts and attending health classes. All the actions ultimately come down to selling health care products, and the activity price is only four or five hundred yuan. Recently, Gongjing Branch of Public Security Bureau of Zigong City, Sichuan Province cracked a major pension fraud case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, arrested 39 suspects in the main case, seized tens of thousands of health care products and health care devices involved, and destroyed a pension fraud gang based in Henan and radiating the whole country 18 provinces.

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The Red Star journalist learned that the pension fraud gang opened more than 600 "free experience" stores in 18 province from October 20265438 to July 2022. By providing free travel, emotional escort, consumer rebates, health talks, induced language and other means, the elderly will be lured to buy the "bear bile powder" with fictional effects and inflated prices.

According to reports, this case is also a health care product pension fraud case with the widest radiation range, the largest number of victims, the highest level of personnel involved and the largest amount involved since the Zigong police in Sichuan investigated the pension fraud case.

Bring out a big case:

Joint inspection of health care products warehouse by two departments

Find out the pension fraud gang

An accidental surprise inspection unveiled the "evil veil" of this pension fraud gang that radiated across the country.

On April 7, 2022, the Market Supervision Bureau of Gongjing District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province received a report from the masses that a large number of health care products and health care devices were stored in a factory warehouse in Dongqiao Community under its jurisdiction, and the origin and use were in doubt. Immediately, the Gongjing District Market Supervision Bureau and the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Gongjing Public Security Bureau conducted a surprise inspection of the reported warehouse.

"We were all surprised when we opened the position." The police investigating the case recalled that in this warehouse with an area of about 200 square meters, various health care products and health care equipment were densely piled up. After on-site inventory, there are 55 kinds of health care products and health care devices such as bear bile powder and Rhodiola, with more than 5,000 pieces; At the scene, the criminal suspects Zhai Moumou and Yang Moumou were blocked.

Are the sources of these health care products and health care devices compliant and legal to use? It has become a question asked by market supervision, public security organs and other departments.

↑ Health care products investigated in a warehouse in Gongjing

According to the investigation by Gongjing police, Zhai and Yang are both about 40 years old. They are the market leaders and warehouse managers of Zigong District of yowza Technology Group Co., Ltd. in Henan Province, and their online manager Li Moumou is the manager of the district. Since 20021and 10, people in Zigong, headed by Li Moumou, have purchased bear bile powder and other health products from Liaoning Guoxiong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for storage, and then sold them to the elderly in Zigong, Leshan, Meishan, Ya 'an and other places in Sichuan at a price far higher than the market price for profit.

After comprehensive analysis and judgment, the police believe that the behavior of Li Moumou and others has been involved in the crime of fraudulent pension for health care products. On July 8, 2022, Gongjing District Branch of Zigong City Public Security Bureau filed a case for investigation with "Li Moumou and others suspected of fraud". With the deepening of the investigation, the police found that the case became more and more serious. After the case was reported step by step, it was supervised by the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Bureau, led by Gongjing Public Security Bureau, and a task force composed of provincial, municipal and district criminal investigation departments was set up to carry out the investigation. The project code is "4.7" health care product fraud pension case.

Old routine:

Free lectures to induce the elderly

False propaganda, selling "health products" at high prices

According to the police investigating the case, the fraud method of Li's gang is an old routine. By distributing leaflets and verbal invitations, gang members attract the elderly to the designated stores to participate in the promotion meeting with free gifts and free health classes; Then in the form of words, promotional videos, etc. Health products such as "bear bile powder" are fictitious and exaggerated, which have the efficacy of treating diseases and induce the elderly to buy them.

"Under normal circumstances, they will claim that the market price in bear bile powder is three or four thousand yuan per box, and the activity price is only five or six hundred yuan per box; However, it needs to be purchased according to the course of treatment, and one course of treatment is three boxes. " The police revealed that the health products such as "bear bile powder" stored and sold by Li Moumou and others are first-class wild animal products produced by Liaoning Guoxiong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which have no effect; The market price of similar bear bile powder products is only tens of yuan/box.

Take the experience store opened by Li in Zigong as an example. By the time of the incident, "yowza Great Health" had set up a 14 store in Zigong, attracting an average of 90 elderly people to attend classes every day. At present, the police have verified that from October 20021year 10 to April 7, 2022, Zigong 14 store sold more than 2 million yuan of various health care products and health care devices such as "bear bile powder".

According to the police investigating the case, Li Moumou is in his 40 s, an Anhui native, and has been engaged in the health care product sales industry. On 20 18, Li joined "yowza great health" and became the owner of a shop. Later, he became Zhou's assistant, managing all the stores in Sichuan until the case was committed.

Mega-gang:

More than 600 "free experience" stores have been opened nationwide.

The amount involved is nearly 200 million yuan.

After careful investigation, the police investigating the case confirmed that the illegal and criminal acts of Li and others were not only in a single province, but also behind it was a criminal gang that implemented health care products for the elderly with "yowza Great Health" as the core.

Headed by Qiao, Zhou, Huang and Li. The gang has long developed "regional managers-offline dealers-experience stores" in many provinces and cities across the country. By providing free sightseeing, emotional escort, induced speech, offline lectures by fake experts, and prescribing Chinese medicine, etc. It takes free gifts, consumer rebates, conference marketing, health lectures and so on. Lure the elderly into buying health care products with fictitious efficacy and inflated prices.

According to the police investigating the case, the case involved a wide geographical scope, many people involved, and the amount involved was huge, which caused great losses and influences to the elderly. It is a type of health care product pension fraud crime that is currently being cracked down. In order to promote the in-depth investigation of the case and ensure that the case is accurate and thorough, after reporting to the superior, this case was listed as a case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security in August this year, and on August 17 of the same year, a nationwide cluster attack was launched to unify the network.

The police further found out that the "yowza Big Health" pension fraud gang opened and operated more than 600 "free experience" stores in Henan, Sichuan, Chongqing and other provinces 18, with more than 400 core suspects downstream, involving nearly 200 million yuan. Among them, there are more than 90 in Sichuan, involving victims 1 10,000, and the amount involved is 1 10,000.

At this point, the "yowza Great Health" pension fraud gang was uprooted. At present, the main suspects in the case, Qiao Mou, Zhou Moumou, Huang Mou and Li Moumou, have been arrested by the procuratorate and detained in the detention center; More than 400 clues across the country were all handed over to the local police to crack down on investigation; The joint task force is conducting follow-up investigations in an orderly manner.

Behind the scenes:

Take dozens of "apprentices"

He took the lead in financing 30 million yuan to buy a hotel and closed it in less than a month.

The Red Star journalist learned that this case is a health care product pension fraud case with the widest radiation range, the largest number of victims, the highest level of personnel involved and the largest amount involved since Zigong police investigated the pension fraud case.

The police investigating the case said frankly that in order to run the case well, before combing the clues and interrogating the suspects, the police specially consulted a large number of related materials about health care products for the elderly, conversation skills and insight into the psychology of the elderly, and learned about the motives, modus operandi and coping thinking of such criminals, so as to prepare for accurate interrogation.

↑ Investigate the scene in a warehouse in Gongjing.

This kind of blow not only stays at the level of stores and store managers, but also goes deep into the core level of the pension fraud industry. As the main suspects, Qiao Mou, Zhou Moumou, Huang Mou and others are the leaders of the "yowza Great Health" pension fraud gang. They planned and implemented the management mode, marketing mode, personnel arrangement and benefit distribution of the whole criminal gang.

Zhou Moumou, about 40 years old, is from Leshan, Sichuan. He used to be a middle school teacher, mainly involved in the development, management and benefit distribution of the national market. According to the clues held by the police, Zhou has dozens of "apprentices" in the industry. He took the lead in raising more than 30 million yuan to buy a hotel somewhere in Sichuan, but due to poor management, it closed in less than a month.

Qiao Mou, 40 years old, from Henan Province, once worked as a chef, engaged in the health care industry for the aged 10 years. In the "yowza Big Health" pension fraud gang, Joe is the head of the group with an annual salary of one million, mainly responsible for the development and management of the national market and the formulation of profit distribution methods.

Huang, who is in his thirties, is from Sichuan. It is said that this person is best at training and is proficient in all aspects of pension fraud, from structural organization to marketing routines, to actual combat and psychology of the elderly. Huang only trains people in the industry, and the teaching cost of the first course is as high as 3 million yuan, so he is called "Huang Caishen" in the industry.

At present, the above-mentioned main suspects have truthfully confessed the facts of personal crimes to the police, and have been arrested by the procuratorate according to law and detained in the detention center, awaiting trial.

Some suspects were taken back to Zigong.

Police tips:

It is a major typical case of national pension fraud.

I hope to improve the anti-fraud ability of the elderly.

The police handling the case admitted that the difficulty in solving the case lies in the clue first. The gang's shops have implemented a strict membership screening system. Generally, it takes three or four times for health education and gift collection for the elderly, and strangers are not allowed to enter the store. At the same time, many shops have formal and legal procedures and products as camouflage, teaching at the wrong time and selling at the wrong time, which is not easy to be discovered by market supervision, public security organs and other departments.

Secondly, the gang has a huge network level, strong anti-investigation awareness, and it is relatively difficult to fix evidence. All false propaganda courseware, videos and materials involved in the case will be deleted, destroyed or hidden after class that day; Timely clean up the offline, online meetings or training records of gang members, as well as their daily operations, WeChat, nailing and other group chats and conference groups. They are all temporarily established and will be dissolved in time after use, which brings great difficulties to the investigation and evidence collection of public security organs.

Finally, it is difficult to close the net. During the investigation, the police found that the gang is mainly based on the head office, and the downstream regional managers, regional managers and store managers are all over the country. It is difficult to close the net, but it is difficult to strike. Unified deployment of command is needed to achieve the purpose of deep penetration.

The police handling the case said that this case is a typical case of selling health care products for the elderly, and it is the focus of the national special campaign for elderly fraud. Its modus operandi is hidden, involving a wide area, involving a large number of people and a huge amount of money. It has a strong cross-regional series of group crimes and has a very bad social impact.

= at the research site of Zhengzhou yowza company.

In the process of handling the project, the police found that most of the deceived elderly people used their own pensions to buy health care products, and the amount of a single fraud was as high as more than 200,000 yuan. They locked the elderly people with certain spending power through membership system, point consumption reward system and other means until their pensions were all hollowed out, which seriously violated the personal and property safety and social stability of the victimized elderly groups.

According to reports, this case is also a major typical case discovered since the launch of the national pension fraud special action. Criminal groups have distinct levels and their modus operandi is particularly concealed. The successful detection of this case will form a powerful shock to the implementation of the crime of swindling pensions by health care products all over the country. At the same time, Zigong police also hope to further enhance the ability of the elderly to know and prevent fraud.

Photo courtesy of Zhou Xiaobo Red Star journalist Wei Yuan police

Editor Ren Zhijiang Editor He Xianfeng