The beauty centers "Banyan Tree", "Dr.Protalk" and "Shuiyunzhuang" under Bonjour Beauty Co., Ltd. suddenly announced the suspension of business on the 1st of last month. The customs set up a special investigation team to follow up the investigation. Until now (12th) In the morning, the Customs received 667 complaints, involving 593 complainants, involving about 30 million yuan, and a single victim involved up to 2 million yuan.
Customs investigation confirmed that the beauty center still accepts customers to purchase prepaid services even when it knows that it has rent arrears and the lease expires and cannot continue to operate. It is suspected of violating the Trade Descriptions Ordinance and improperly accepting payment.
Customs today arrested one of the 63-year-old male directors of the beauty group and he will be released on bail.
Three beauty centers under Bonjour Beauty Co., Ltd. suddenly announced the suspension of operations on the 1st of last month. The customs received 667 complaints, involving 593 complainants, involving a sum of about 30 million yuan. The customs arrested a male director this morning.
(Photo by Huang Weimin)
The beauty center was filed for rent arrears in July this year
Huang Zhicong, commander of the second group of the Customs Unscrupulous Business Practice Investigation, said that the customs contacted the relevant beauty center management office and the owners to understand the rental and operating conditions of the beauty center before the announcement of the closure of the beauty center. The investigation found that there were rent arrears, up to several months , And even the landlord filed a claim in court for rent arrears and applied for auction of items in the beauty center as early as July this year.
The Customs will conduct an in-depth investigation into the role played by the arrested male director in the beauty group. There is currently evidence that he is aware of the operation of the beauty group.
The customs does not rule out that more people will be arrested, and will investigate the operating conditions, capital flows and any unusual promotional activities of the beauty center before the announcement of closure.
Huang Zhicong, commander of the second group of investigation on unscrupulous business practices of the customs (photo by Huang Weimin)
After receiving the lawsuit, the customs has immediately contacted every victim, and is continuing to learn more about each victim. The current maximum amount involved is nearly 2 million yuan.
Some victims purchased different types of packages at different times, and some claimed that they had never used related services.
Huang Zhicong said that the relevant sales contract period is one year, but many victims said that the sales staff verbally promised a validity period of more than one year, and according to the "Commodity Description Regulations", merchants must abide by the verbal promises.
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