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26-11-2014, 07:50 PM
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Fake Chinese military officials 'swindle 34 million yuan from construction firms'
Three farmers, posing as a deputy defence minister and PLA colonel and general, paid fees by 19 businesses vying to build 'coastal defence education bases', Beijing News reports
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 25 November, 2014, 4:01pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 26 November, 2014, 4:17am
Andrea Chen [email protected]
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The office complex in Penglai, Shandong Province, where the "Coastal Defence Base Headquarters" was allegedly opened. Photo: Beijing News
Three farmers from Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, posing as senior military officials, allegedly swindled 34 million yuan (about HK$43 million) from 19 construction companies through a fake “secret military project”, the Beijing News reported today.
Zhang Jie, Zhang Xiaoquan, and Shao Cunli, who claimed to be a deputy defence minister, colonel and general in the People’s Liberation Army, respectively, allegedly told owners of the companies that paying fees and deposits would win them the bids to build six “coastal defence education bases” that China was constructing on the coast of Liaoning and Guangxi Provinces, the newspaper said.
The owners of the building companies were allegedly asked to pay a deposit and a “confidential fee”, ranging from tens of thousands of yuan to millions of yuan, in return for becoming subcontractors on the “one-hundred-billion-yuan project”, the Beijing News said.
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Some of the documents that were allegedly faked to help convince companies to invest in the “secret military project”. Photo: Beijing News
An office rented in Penglai, Shandong Province, was described as the “Coastal Defence Base Headquarters”, it reported; the three men claimed the office was an official military department in charge of the construction of the “secret military project”, the newspaper said.
In mainland China, the structure and personnel of many military and defence departments is not made public. The PLA also has a reputation for being secretive about its construction projects.
The Beijing News reported that the alleged victims had said they found the three men claiming to be officials credible after being shown what they believed to be genuine government documents and given a tour of the “headquarters”, where “staff” had been dressed in military uniforms and behaved like soldiers.
Police told the Beijing News that they recently detained three suspects in the case and had raided the “headquarters” allegedly used for the scam in August.
The newspaper also reported police saying that the three alleged suspects claimed to have been inspired to carry out their own scam after falling victims to a similar fraud themselves some years ago.
The three men claimed they had been swindled out of tens of thousands of yuan by people claiming to be government officials, police told the newspaper. But instead of reporting the crime to police, they become “inspired” to set up their own scam, the newspaper reported.
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Fake Chinese military officials 'swindle 34 million yuan from construction firms'
Three farmers, posing as a deputy defence minister and PLA colonel and general, paid fees by 19 businesses vying to build 'coastal defence education bases', Beijing News reports
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 25 November, 2014, 4:01pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 26 November, 2014, 4:17am
Andrea Chen [email protected]
http://i.imgur.com/950tmdv.jpg
The office complex in Penglai, Shandong Province, where the "Coastal Defence Base Headquarters" was allegedly opened. Photo: Beijing News
Three farmers from Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, posing as senior military officials, allegedly swindled 34 million yuan (about HK$43 million) from 19 construction companies through a fake “secret military project”, the Beijing News reported today.
Zhang Jie, Zhang Xiaoquan, and Shao Cunli, who claimed to be a deputy defence minister, colonel and general in the People’s Liberation Army, respectively, allegedly told owners of the companies that paying fees and deposits would win them the bids to build six “coastal defence education bases” that China was constructing on the coast of Liaoning and Guangxi Provinces, the newspaper said.
The owners of the building companies were allegedly asked to pay a deposit and a “confidential fee”, ranging from tens of thousands of yuan to millions of yuan, in return for becoming subcontractors on the “one-hundred-billion-yuan project”, the Beijing News said.
http://i.imgur.com/XTFBZJE.jpg
Some of the documents that were allegedly faked to help convince companies to invest in the “secret military project”. Photo: Beijing News
An office rented in Penglai, Shandong Province, was described as the “Coastal Defence Base Headquarters”, it reported; the three men claimed the office was an official military department in charge of the construction of the “secret military project”, the newspaper said.
In mainland China, the structure and personnel of many military and defence departments is not made public. The PLA also has a reputation for being secretive about its construction projects.
The Beijing News reported that the alleged victims had said they found the three men claiming to be officials credible after being shown what they believed to be genuine government documents and given a tour of the “headquarters”, where “staff” had been dressed in military uniforms and behaved like soldiers.
Police told the Beijing News that they recently detained three suspects in the case and had raided the “headquarters” allegedly used for the scam in August.
The newspaper also reported police saying that the three alleged suspects claimed to have been inspired to carry out their own scam after falling victims to a similar fraud themselves some years ago.
The three men claimed they had been swindled out of tens of thousands of yuan by people claiming to be government officials, police told the newspaper. But instead of reporting the crime to police, they become “inspired” to set up their own scam, the newspaper reported.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?194681-Fake-Chinese-military-officials-swindle-34-million-yuan-from-construction-firms&goto=newpost).