In the document, Niu Yuanming, who claimed to be the chairman and general manager of AXA Private Equity, paid a deposit of up to 6,543,800 yuan after being examined by the police officer of Shanghai Pudong Branch, the project procurator, the judge of Shanghai Intermediate People's Court and the director of the financial bureau of the procuratorate.
"If the details of the experience in this document are true, then the parties may have encountered telecom fraud." A partner of a law firm in Shanghai admits that there are legal loopholes in many details such as online case handling and the guarantee of the criminal investigation captain.
Inquiring about the public information, we can find that Niu Yuanming's working experience recorded in the document is consistent with official website of China Asset Management Association. In order to further verify the authenticity of the document, the reporter contacted Niu Yuanming by phone or SMS. As of press time, the other party did not reply. The person in charge of AXA's private equity compliance risk control once told the media that he would "not comment" on online documents. The reporter called the person in charge today, but the other party did not answer.
The term "private chairman" attracts people's attention.
Recently, a document named "My Complaints and Statements" has been circulated in the industry. Niu Yuanming, who claimed to be the chairman and general manager of AXA Private Equity, talked about his recent experience.
According to this document, Niu Yuanming is a British citizen and holds a Hong Kong permanent identity card. In June 5438 +20201October, it joined AXA Group, the parent company of AXA Private Equity Fund Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "AXA Private Equity"), and moved to Shanghai in June 5438 +20221October.
On June 7, 2022, Niu Yuanming claimed that he was in AXA Private Equity Company that day and accidentally received a phone call from Miss Fang, an employee of the Wan Chai Prevention and Control Center of the Hong Kong Department of Health. The phone number was in Hong Kong. The other party told him that the relevant data on Hong Kong Anxin Travel APP showed that he had a secret connection record in a hospital in Hong Kong on the afternoon of June 6, 2022.
After receiving this call, Niu Yuanming replied: "I was in Shanghai on June 6, 2022, 165438, and I can't be in Hong Kong."
Later, Niu Yuanming communicated with "Miss Fang" and found that the mobile phone number recorded by Chinese mainland's link to Hong Kong Anxin Travel APP was not his own. Suspected that someone else had stolen his identity information, he got a mobile phone number in the business hall of a telephone company in Pudong, Shanghai, and took the initiative to report the case.
According to the document, "Miss Fang immediately contacted the Pudong Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau" and the police officer Li, who handled the case, started the online case handling procedure. However, when "Officer Li" verified his identity information, he found that Niu Yuanming's identity might be related to a highly confidential case being undertaken by the police, so he immediately asked for instructions from his superiors, showed the consent form of the confidentiality agreement of the State Secrecy Bureau, and asked Niu Yuanming to electronically sign on his mobile phone.
Later that day, the case was taken over by another policeman, Captain Gu, who showed Niu Yuanming the case information on WhatsAPP. Niu Yuanming said: "Without excluding my connection with the existing physical evidence, Captain Gu instructed me to return to my residence under monitoring conditions and started online monitoring to warn me of the case. Due to state-level confidentiality, any case information shall not be disclosed to the employer, employees, relatives, family members or any third party of our company. "
Later, under the advice and guidance of the self-proclaimed "Attorney General Gao Ming" and "Judge Zhang Haiping of the Second Hall of Shanghai Intermediate People's Court", Niu Yuanming applied for bail pending trial in order to prove his innocence and not affect the company's business and reputation, with the amount of RMB 6,543,800+million. Niu Yuanming immediately raised 6,543,800 yuan to the "designated account" of the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Lawyers claim for compensation or encounter fraud.
It is worth mentioning that Niu Yuanming's story is not over yet.
After Niu Yuanming paid the bail, on the afternoon of February 24, 2022, Minister of Justice Gao Ming informed him in writing that his bail application had been approved through WhatsApp social media, and proved that Niu Yuanming had nothing to do with the case and had left the identity of the suspect involved, so the bail of100000 yuan could be refunded.
However, on the afternoon of February 26, 65438, the person who claimed to be "Director Liang Haojun of the Finance Bureau of the Procuratorate" told Niu Yuanming that he met the conditions for the return of funds, but due to the latest national anti-money laundering regulations, the deposit must be "returned within six months". The quick return method is that Niu Yuanming pays an extra 30% of the mortgage deposit, about HK$ 3 million. He can complete the formalities within 2-48 hours and quickly return all the previous deposits.
Niu Yuanming said in his statement that he had been in debt of several million Hong Kong dollars, and he was unable to pay the money because he was faced with repayment requirements from borrowing friends before Christmas and the year before last. Therefore, I implore the company to urgently borrow HK$ 3 million in short term, and strive to return all the bail money and the company's short-term personal loan as soon as possible, so as to get out of the predicament as soon as possible.
"If the details in the statement are true, then the parties may have encountered telecom fraud because there are many legal loopholes." A partner of a law firm in Shanghai admits that in actual legal procedures, the public security organs always inform the parties to accept the investigation by face-to-face, summons, telephone, etc., but WhatsAPP is a foreign social software, and it is extremely unreasonable for police investigators to present case information on social software. In addition, if the police take compulsory measures against the parties, they will issue a decision on bail pending trial or a decision on residential surveillance, instead of direct network monitoring as mentioned in the document.
The partner of the law firm also said that the personnel of the public security organs can't be guarantors, so it is impossible to say in the document that Gu Dong offered to be guarantors.
The scale of this foreign private placement has not been well managed.
After the document was circulated on the Internet, some insiders said: "There are obvious traces of fraud in the text. As a private equity executive, you should have a certain ability to distinguish, so the authenticity of online documents is in doubt. "
In this regard, the reporter confirmed the authenticity of the document in many ways.
First of all, from the public information, the public information of China Foundation shows that AXA is a wholly foreign-owned enterprise, and its legal representative and chairman are Yuan Mingniu, whose work experience is consistent with the records in the document.
Secondly, the reporter called Niu Yuanming through the contact information shown in the document, but as of press time, the other party did not connect. Not long ago, Zhang Beibei, head of AXA's private equity compliance risk control, told the media: "The company has not authorized me to comment on this matter." In this regard, the reporter contacted Zhang Beibei through WeChat and telephone. As of press time, I have not received a reply.
According to insiders, AXA's private placement is quite low-key in the industry, and the progress of domestic exhibition industry is still in its infancy.
According to the information of China Foundation, AXA Private Equity was registered in May 2022, and there was no fund management scale within one year from the date of completing the registration procedures, with only 1 person as full-time employees.
It can be seen that whether the current document was written by Niu Yuanming himself and whether Niu Yuanming suffered telecom fraud is still inconclusive. The reporter will continue to pay attention to the follow-up progress.