Today, our hero is Xie Genrong, a liar. With the help of top experts in China, he put on fake cultural relics with 20,000 pieces of jade clothes and described them as "national treasures" worth 2.4 billion yuan, defrauding the country of 500 million yuan.
"Master Dao" made a fortune.
Xie Genrong, 1960, from Huzhou, Zhejiang. Because his family was poor, he dropped out of school to work in junior high school. With only a junior high school education, he dug up his first bucket of gold by "pouring" clothes on the Sino-Russian border. Although the business scale of "Daoye" is not large, its income is considerable. Xie Genrong, 30, became a multimillionaire by "defecting".
"Fake mortgage" loan, lead a drunken life.
1995, the "profiteering" business of border clothing is becoming more and more difficult. In this way, Xie Genrong gave up the "profiteering" business and started a business. The beer project is his preferred industry. In order to do a good job in beer project, he first set up Beijing Yanshan Walson Company in Fangshan District, Beijing, then opened Walson Brewery, and finally prepared to build Walson Beer City.
However, he was bent on making big money and soon put his career focus on real estate. 1995, he saw that most rich people made their fortune by the real estate industry. Because the real estate industry has huge profits and is an industry where top celebrities and entrepreneurs get together. Ambitious, he is bent on getting rid of the shadow of "profiteering" and becoming a striking and successful Confucian businessman.
When he first entered the real estate industry, he cooperated with others to develop real estate in a slightly remote place. Although the income is good, but the money is too slow, he has always wanted to go on a "big adventure."
1999 finally, the opportunity he waited for finally came. A real estate project named "Donghua Golden Tower" is being transferred. Xuankai Company, which won the bid initially, could not continue to develop real estate projects because of financial problems. In desperation, Xuankai Company publicly transferred the project at the end of 1999.
Xie Genrong thought this was the opportunity he had been waiting for, so he took over the project that used almost all his assets without hesitation. Even so, his money is far from the 440 million needed for this project. In order to get this money, Xie Genrong took risks and played a routine of "fake mortgage" loans. He first found someone to buy a fake house, and then used the fake purchase agreement signed with them to borrow money. Back and forth, he borrowed 670 million yuan, equivalent to 6.8 billion now, which was a huge fortune at that time.
Poverty limits imagination, and money opens desire. Xie Genrong, who got 670 million yuan, began to lose himself completely and lived a life addicted to money. Buy a house, a car, and spend a lot of money on Jianhua Health Hotel. Not only that, he is also infected with gambling, and often goes to Macau to gamble with a lot of money. In order to show his position, he spent hundreds of millions of yuan to buy antiques and collect them in his "Genrong Exhibition Hall". In 2003, Xie Genrong, who made a living from loans, ranked 163 on the list of China's richest people and became a well-known businessman at that time. According to sources, his company has been living on loans, and the money obtained through loans is used for company operations, and the rest is his personal expenses.
You always have to pay back what you owe. In 2003, Donghua Jinta project was forced to stop work because of the arrears of project funds, and the branch of Beijing Construction Bank Economic and Technological Development Zone also found the door because of fraudulent loans. Xie Genrong is at the end of his tether. Desperate, Xie Genrong finally chose to take risks-making fake cultural relics to defraud loans.
Fake jade clothes cheat real loans.
Desperate, Xie Genrong not only cheated money to continue the loan, but also went astray, playing the idea of forging antiques and using the huge expert appraisal to continue to defraud the loan. And he, with the help of top experts in China, succeeded in stringing out his own "national treasure" with 20,000 pieces of jade clothes, calling it a "national treasure" worth 2.4 billion yuan and defrauding the country of 500 million yuan.
Many people have never heard of it. But Xie Genrong can use it to defraud the national bank of money. According to the initial news report, Xie Genrong's "golden jade clothes" were bought with 20,000 pieces of loose jade, and others helped him forge them. After the forgery was successful, he immediately invited five domestic first-class appraisers to appraise this gold and jade dress. As he expected, they gave an evaluation price of 2.4 billion yuan. The leader of a branch of CCB has provided support to Xie Genrong for 46 times, with a loan of 456 million yuan. In March 2008, Xie Genrong was sentenced to life imprisonment for loan fraud. It's his own fault that he ended up in this situation.
Remarkably, the five experts who participated in the appraisal were Yang Boda, Shi Shuqing, Wang Wenxiang, Li Jinsong and Yang Fuxu. They are all top experts in cultural relics appraisal in China. How could they be wrong? Does Xie Genrong's counterfeiting technology really reach the level of "confusing the real with the fake"?
Now facing the media, they said that the jade clothes were identified through the glass cabinet. And the most important expert opinion is Mr. Shi Shuqing, the first expert in cultural relics appraisal in China. For his appraisal results, the other four did not say anything more. Mr. Shi died before the incident. It is human nature to make mistakes, but it is despicable to evade responsibility. Because their original appraisal process was "sloppy", the national bank was cheated of 500 million yuan.
"blood and flowers are charming eyes"
China's huge antique market has also led to a surge of antique appraisers, who collect fees by helping people identify the authenticity of treasures. In the industry, there are two ways to collect antique appraisal fees. One is the case that the appraisal certificate is not opened, and the appraisal fee is several hundred yuan. The other is the case of issuing an appraisal certificate, and the appraisal fee ranges from thousands to tens of millions. Antique appraisal fee is about 3%. Driven by huge interests, many experts have violated their professional ethics.
abstract
It is a matter of craftsmanship and morality to treat the real as a fake and take the fake seriously. Neither result is illegal. Because of such legal loopholes, many people don't care much about identifying the authenticity of treasures. What they care about is how much money they can get
The collection market is dazzling. As an ordinary collector, if you want to stay away from fakes, you must first learn to keep a correct attitude and stay away from greed, and then learn more about various collections.