I didn't expect the money I was cheated on to be recovered. Now my factory has also made progress. "Recently, Mr. Wang, the head of a certain enterprise, expressed his gratitude to the prosecutor of Rongcheng City Procuratorate in Shandong Province after receiving a loss of more than 950000 yuan. Following a public prosecution by the Rongcheng City Procuratorate, the court recently sentenced the defendant Liu, who defrauded Mr. Wang of his goods, to 11 years in prison and imposed a fine of 100000 yuan. The defendant was also ordered to return over 950000 yuan to the victim for fraud. The verdict has now come into effect. Mr. Wang from Rongcheng, Shandong, who encountered a scam when purchasing imported raw materials, runs a fish meal processing factory. In March 2023, Mr. Wang met Liu through an intermediary in order to order fish meal processing materials. Liu told Mr. Wang that he could obtain a large amount of cheap fish in Russia. So Mr. Wang paid a deposit of 140000 yuan to Liu. In May of the same year, Liu informed Mr. Wang that the imported goods had been found. After watching the video of Liu's seafood company factory and goods sent back from Russia, Mr. Wang had no doubt about it. Subsequently, Mr. Wang entrusted Mr. Liu to help purchase 2500 tons of fish fillets (leftover scraps from fish processing, which are raw materials for fish meal processing) in Russia, and paid a prepayment of 1.8 million yuan to Mr. Liu. However, after payment, there was no movement of the goods for a long time. The middleman repeatedly urged Liu to ship the goods, but he used various excuses to evade it. In July 2023, Liu informed Mr. Wang that the goods had been shipped to China and sent back pictures and videos via WeChat. After waiting for three days, Mr. Wang did not find the ship number information provided by Liu. When asked again, Liu claimed that he was deceived by a Russian supplier named "Yura", and the ordered goods were sent to other countries, causing the supplier to flee and go missing. Mr. Wang, who was extremely anxious, quickly reported the case to the police. After investigation, the police found that Mr. Wang was indeed deceived, but it was not "Yula" who deceived him, but Liu. After being arrested by the police, Liu refused to plead guilty and tried various excuses, claiming that he only misappropriated the payment for gambling. In October of the same year, the public security organs transferred Liu's suspected fraud case to the Rongcheng City Procuratorate for examination and prosecution. The prosecutor found that Liu did not find a suitable source of fish fillet in Russia after accepting Mr. Wang's commission. So, where did the source video he sent to Mr. Wang come from? Originally, Liu contacted a supplier in Qingdao, Shandong through WeChat. Although he heard that the price of imported fish from Russia was not suitable, Liu still told Mr. Wang, "Russian fish is very cheap, and we have found a source of goods." Then, Liu removed the original sound from the video of the domestic source provided by the Qingdao supplier and replaced it with his own explanation, pretending to be a foreign source of goods. Liu also registered a new WeChat account and created a fictional partner who does seafood business in Russia and can help find sources of goods by playing two roles. He also sent screenshots of forged chat and transfer records to intermediaries and Mr. Wang, making them believe that he really has a way in Russia. In order to make Mr. Wang believe it, Liu went to Russia twice in May and July 2023 and sent him photos of foreign scenery, hotels, and banks to create the illusion of ordering goods at Russian ports. The so-called Russian supplier "Yura" was also fabricated by Liu. After identifying the fraudulent methods, how to help the victims recover their losses has become a key focus of the case. During the interrogation, Liu claimed that "all the money he swindled was gambled away". However, after carefully reviewing the case files, the prosecutor found contradictions in the gambling amount confessed by Liu, and believed that Liu's statement was untrue. Therefore, the focus of the investigation was placed on Liu's phone. By analyzing the chat records of Liu's mobile phone in the past year, the prosecutor sorted and screened 690000 WeChat chat records, videos, and voice messages. Among them, a chat message sent by Liu to his nephew caught the attention of the prosecutor: "My bank card has no authority to transfer money overseas and has been frozen twice. Please help me apply for a bank card under your name. First, apply for a phone card, and then apply for a bank card." The investigating prosecutor keenly realized that the bank card mentioned here may be related to the stolen money hidden in this case. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the victims and prevent the transfer of money, the investigating prosecutor requested the public security organs to freeze the involved bank card under the name of Liu's nephew and retrieve the transaction details of the card. After investigation, it was found that the card had multiple deposit records in June 2023, with a transaction amount of over 1 million yuan. The transaction time and amount coincided with the time when Mr. Wang transferred the payment to Mr. Liu. Through questioning, Liu's nephew also admitted that the money in the bank card was indeed deposited by Liu. In the face of a large amount of evidence and facts, Liu can only truthfully confess the criminal facts. According to his account, after receiving the payment from Mr. Wang, he made multiple transfers and dispersed the money into several of his own bank cards. He also transferred the stolen money to his nephew's newly opened bank card through dozens of small withdrawals, attempting to conceal and hide the involved funds. At the time of the incident, Liu's 1.94 million yuan obtained through fraud had already been partially used for debt repayment and extravagance, leaving over 950000 yuan in his card. Mr. Wang contacted the prosecutor handling the case and reported that his company urgently needed this money for production and operation, as well as for paying workers' wages. In order to help Mr. Wang and his fishmeal factory overcome difficulties and ensure that the workers receive their wages in a timely manner, with the coordination of multiple parties, the public security organs have returned more than 950000 yuan of the involved funds to Mr. Wang. Wang Yan, a deputy to the National People's Congress and vice principal of Shude Technical School in Yantai, Shandong Province, learned about the case, and said that in the face of massive electronic data, Rongcheng Procuratorate went forward with difficulty, peeled off the cocoon, looked for clues to break through the case and prove the crime, tried its best to safeguard the legitimate interests of small and micro enterprises, and actively helped the victims recover their losses. This high-quality and efficient approach to handling cases deserves recognition. (New Society)