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15 people who applied for anti-epidemic fund for naming business after DLLM and changing the signboard of P map were arrested for fraud

2020-09-02T06:42:27.262Z


The new crown pneumonia epidemic continues, and the government has launched a number of "epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic fund" (hereinafter referred to as "anti-epidemic fund") plans. The police detected a fraud involving the anti-epidemic fund for the first time in early July. Recently, they have detected multiple similar cases and arrested 13 men2 Female, the amount involved is 3.87 million yuan. The arrested persons in the case used five major methods to defraud the anti-epidemic fund, including P-pictures, changing the nature of the business, applying for new business and opening multiple branches, providing false information, and sub-letting units for applications. The single largest fraud amount was 1.86 million yuan.


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Written by: Peng Kaixin Huang Weimin

2020-09-02 12:06

Last update date: 2020-09-02 14:40

The new crown pneumonia epidemic continues, and the government has launched a number of "epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic fund" (hereinafter referred to as "anti-epidemic fund") plans. The police detected a fraud involving the anti-epidemic fund for the first time in early July. Recently, they have detected multiple similar cases and arrested 13 men2 Female, the amount involved is 3.87 million yuan.

The arrested persons in the case used five major methods to defraud the anti-epidemic fund, including P-pictures, changing the nature of the business, applying for new business and opening multiple branches, providing false information, and sub-letting units for applications. The single largest fraud amount was 1.86 million yuan.

In the case, the arrested person used five major methods to defraud the anti-epidemic fund, including the P picture. After downloading the picture online, the sign was changed to the name of the declared business.

(Photo by Huang Weimin)

Superintendent Ye Yonglin of the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau said that after the Police Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau arrested two men on July 7 for an attempt to defraud the Anti-epidemic Fund, the police received another report from the Anti-epidemic Fund Secretariat in mid-July, suspecting that someone had provided false documents. , Information, falsely claiming that the store has entity operations, fraudulently defrauded the anti-epidemic fund, a one-time subsidy to the retail industry, beauty salons, massage parlors and party rooms.

After in-depth investigation by the police, on August 27 and yesterday, the police took arrests in multiple districts across Hong Kong. A total of 13 men and 2 women were arrested on charges of "fraud" and "attempt to defraud". The age of the arrested person Between the ages of 31 and 61, reported as businessmen, construction contractors, security guards, retirees and unemployed, etc., they are suspected of using false information and documents to submit a total of 47 funding applications, including 38 retail subsidies, 9 Applications for beauty salons, massage parlors and party rooms.

The applicant falsely claimed that the relevant business had independently operated the relevant business at the declared address before the designated date specified in the funding scheme.

In this case, the amount involved was 3.87 million Hong Kong dollars. Among them, 3 applications submitted by 2 arrested persons have been approved, involving 240,000 Hong Kong dollars.

During the operation, the police seized a batch of documents, computers and mobile phones.

The police have frozen their bank accounts for those whose applications have been approved.

The operation is still in progress, and it is not ruled out that more people were arrested.

The arrested persons deceive the anti-epidemic fund by five major methods:

Chief Inspector of the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau, He Ruijuan, stated that the criminal methods of the arrested persons can be classified into five categories.

First: After learning the details of the funding scheme, the applicant immediately applies to the Business Registration Office to register a new business, or open multiple branches for the old business, and then provide false information, claiming that the business or branch is on the date specified by the funding plan It has started operations before, with the purpose of exaggerating the business scale to make more applications.

The man arrested on July 7 surnamed Tang and reported as a security guard applied for the business registration of 17 nail salons at the same time in late April, falsely claiming that each branch had 5 employees, intending to defraud 1.87 million yuan in subsidies .

It is understood that one of the applicants named the company "DLLM", but it was revealed that he had never actually operated the relevant business.

Second: The applicant changes the nature of his business to defraud the funding.

The applicant originally had a business operation, but the nature of his business did not meet the type of funding applied for, so he applied to the Commercial Registration Office to change the business nature.

Third: The applicant submits false documents, including modifying the document address proof and providing false MPF records to exaggerate the number of employees in order to defraud more funding.

Some beauty salons falsely claimed that they hired 5 or more employees in order to defraud each beauty salon and massage parlor of an estimated subsidy of 100,000 yuan, but the business has never actually operated nor hired relevant employees.

Among them, a 31-year-old woman named Li, who was arrested as a businessman, used the electricity bill or gas bill of the property rented by her family to forge address proof and submitted a false MPF payment statement for application Nine grants, including applications from one retail industry and eight beauty salons, were intended to defraud HK$880,000.

Fourth: Applicants will sublet their rented units to different companies for multiple applications. One of the gang has 5 persons arrested, involving the subletting of a unit to 9 shops to apply for subsidies. For more than one application, the relevant examination and approval department will not process the application, so the applicant will name the subletting unit differently, which involves fraud of up to 720,000 yuan.

Fifth: The applicant made false shop photos to prove that his business was actually operated.

Inspector Liu Jiaming of the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau stated that there are three main methods for applicants to make false photos.

First: The applicant downloads or takes pictures of other people's stores online, and revises the store name or signboard later to make the falsely correct store his business.

One of the applicants claimed to be engaged in watch and retail business, so he submitted a picture, but the police found that there was an identical picture on the Internet, and the watch shop in the picture was located in Thailand. The applicant just downloaded the picture and added the picture in the picture. The signboard is modified.

There are also applicants who took photos at a chain house product company, erased the chain house product name, and added their own business name.

Second: An applicant placed his business sign in someone else’s shop and took a photo, falsely claiming that the shop was his own shop. Among them, a 32-year-old man named Ke was arrested and used this method to defraud 400,000 yuan. yuan.

Third: The applicant puts the simple shop signboard in an industrial building or residence to take photos.

One of them put a piece of A4 paper with the name of the business on the iron gate of the house as a photo of the shop.

Among those arrested, a man surnamed Wu applied for subsidies from 11 branches at the same time, and photographed easy-to-open frames with business names outside the doors of the industrial building, with the intention of defrauding RMB 880,000.

The police cracked the first case involving fraudulent funds on July 7. Two men were arrested in Kowloon City and Kwun Tong for attempted fraud.

Two suspects involved in false information and submitted 41 funding applications, including 2 applications for retail businesses, 37 applications for beauty salons and 2 applications for party space, falsely claiming that the business had been in operation before the planned date, in an attempt to defraud 2.54 million yuan.

The relevant application has been submitted for business registration, but the registered address has no relevant business operations or has never been rented.

Two men arrested in the first anti-epidemic fund fraud case involving using fake documents to defraud 2.54 million yuan

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Source: hk1

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