Henan police repatriated a fugitive economic suspect involved in a "mining machine" fraud case from Cuba, with a total of more than 1.3 billion yuan involved

Henan Business Daily reporter Gao Peng/text reporter Wang Chunsheng/photo

On November 9, the Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau Zhengdong Branch's special task force escorted back to China the suspects Gao, Hu and Feng who were repatriated from Cuba for suspected fund-raising fraud. A reporter from Henan Business Daily learned that this was another major achievement of our province's public security organs in the "Fox Hunt 2019" special operation, and it was also the first time that our province's police repatriated and escorted fugitive economic crime suspects from Cuba.

In March this year, the Zhengdong Branch of the Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau opened an investigation into the "Henan Lianxin Technology Co., Ltd. suspected of fundraising fraud." After investigation, it was found that from October 2018 to February 2019, the criminal suspect Huo and others successively established and actually controlled Henan Lianxin Technology Co., Ltd., AT Exchange and other companies, using the hard drives, motherboards, and chassis they purchased and then labeled and assembled them to produce the so-called "mining machines" that can generate virtual currency.

Gao and others lied that customers could invest in "mining machines" to obtain high returns through mining, exchange, and trading. However, after customers paid a high price for "mining machines", the company froze the digital currencies exchanged by customers on the grounds that the trading platform was hacked, and prevented customers from withdrawing cash through the backend, in order to illegally occupy customers' funds. The funds involved in the case amounted to 1.36 billion yuan, and more than 7,000 people were victims. Police investigations found that the company's executives Gao, Hu, and Feng had fled abroad before the incident.

After Gao and others absconded, under the direct command of the Fox Hunting Operation Office of the Ministry of Public Security, the public security organs of Henan Province, Zhengzhou City, and Zhengdong New District set up a fugitive pursuit task force to carry out overseas pursuit work. Not long ago, the Cuban police arrested the criminal suspects Gao, Hu, and Feng, and immediately decided to repatriate them. After receiving the notification, under the unified organization and leadership of the Ministry of Public Security, the Zhengzhou police formed a working group to go to Cuba to escort the three people back to China.

The relevant person in charge of the public security organ said that the arrest of the three suspects in the case once again demonstrated the public security organ's determination to "pursue the fugitives no matter where they are" and also showed that the current cooperation between my country's public security organs and the law enforcement departments of Latin American countries is more friendly and close. At the same time, the police urged other relevant persons involved in the case to surrender to the public security organs as soon as possible and strive for leniency.

(Henan Business Daily editor Shi Shangjing and trainee editor Wu Bing)