On April 20, the Xingtai City Public Security Bureau of Hebei Province held a press conference and revealed that after painstaking efforts by the Xingtai City Qiaodong Public Security Bureau, the police successfully eliminated an evil extortion gang. After investigation, the gang Under the guise of providing loans by mortgaging cars, the car owners mortgaged their car keys and drove the cars away for various reasons, demanding high redemption fees, and extorted nearly one million yuan from more than 50 car owners. Currently, the suspect Liu and four other people have been detained under criminal detention.
At about 9 pm on January 19, 2018, Ms. Wang went shopping with her friends. When she walked out of the mall and was about to go home, she found that her car was missing. When Ms. Wang was extremely anxious, she received a call from a man. The man claimed to be a staff member of "Chengda Car Loan Company" and said that Ms. Wang had applied for a car mortgage loan with their company and today he found a GPS installed in the car. There is no signal in the positioning system. Ms. Wang has violated the contract and the car has been temporarily impounded in Hengshui. If she wants the car, she has to pay a redemption fee of 50,000 yuan.
According to reports, Ms. Wang applied for a car mortgage loan at a company called "Chengda Car Loan Company" in Qiaodong District on January 15. In one day, she borrowed 30,000 yuan, and only The handling fee of 50,000 yuan was paid in 4 days. When she arrived in Hengshui on January 22, the other party said that her car had been bought by a car owner and that she would have to pay 80,000 yuan to bring the car back. Ms. Wang's car was bought by the owner, and she needed to pay 80,000 yuan to get the car back. In order to get her car back, Ms. Wang had to pay 80,000 yuan. After returning to Xingtai, she immediately reported the case to the Qiaodong Public Security Bureau of Xingtai City.
While the police were investigating the case, they successively received reports from citizens such as Li and Shi. They all claimed that after the "Chengda Car Loan Company" used car keys as collateral for loans, the company used them as collateral. He secretly drove the car away due to reasons such as overdue interest payments and poor GPS signal, and threatened to remortgage the car if he did not redeem it, demanding a high redemption payment. At the request of the "car owner", the "car owner" secretly drove the car away and threatened to remortgage the car without redeeming the car, demanding a high redemption payment.
After in-depth investigation, the police discovered that a criminal gang that carried out extortion in the name of car loans had surfaced. The gang named the criminal suspect Liu (male, 28 years old, from Renqiu, Hebei Province, with fraud The main members include Gao (male, 28 years old), Wang (male, 27 years old), Wu (male, 23 years old, with a criminal record of theft and intentional injury, the latter three are all from Hengshui), etc. The latter three are all from Hengshui. They fled from Hengshui to Xingtai to commit crimes, soliciting car loan business in the name of "Chengda Car Loan Company". After lending money, they fabricated various reasons to seize the victim's vehicle, and then extorted a high redemption fee.
As several people fled one after another, the police went to Hengshui, Cangzhou and other places to carry out investigation and arrest work. On March 21, 2018, Xingtai police, with the assistance of the Hengshui City Public Security Bureau, arrested four suspects in a hotel in Hengshui City.
After interrogation, the criminal suspect Liu and four others confessed that since October 2017, they have set up strongholds in Hengshui, Renqiu, Baoding, Xingtai and other places to extort money under the guise of providing loans. More than 50 car owners made illegal profits of nearly one million yuan.
Currently, the suspect Liu and four other people have been detained under criminal detention.
The police remind that "routine loan" is a new type of crime that is very harmful to society. Citizens must borrow money through legal platforms and read the corresponding contract terms carefully. If they encounter "overlord clauses", such as Terms such as excessive interest rates, "discounts" on cash received, high penalties, and interest attached to the loan contract must be resolutely rejected. When negotiating with a loan company, be sure to collect relevant evidence and information, such as the other party's identity information, loan contract, bank transaction details, repayment vouchers, etc. Once you are threatened verbally or physically, call the police for help immediately.
The above content comes from: CNN