Xia Lin, male, former lawyer of Beijing Huayi Law Firm, Lawyer's License No. 11101199210826041, was criminally punished for the crime of fraud and had his lawyer's license revoked by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice.
Xia Lin was detained on November 8, 2014 for allegedly committing the crime of gambling, and was arrested on December 15 of the same year for allegedly committing the crime of fraud. The court found that Xia Lin, who was in urgent need of funds due to his involvement in betting on gambling sites, fictionalized the fact that he needed funds to invest in a building auctioned by the court, and cheated the victims of money*** amounting to more than 5 million yuan, and used the said money to gamble and return the money owed to him. The court held that its illegal possession for the purpose of fictitious facts, concealment of the truth, cheating others of money, the amount is particularly large, his behavior has constituted fraud, punishable by law.