The first case of rewarding money laundering by webcasting in China was solved, with a case value of nearly 100 million yuan and 21 people arrested.

  In the money laundering case of live webcast, Shanghai police arrested the suspect in other places. Shanghai Public Security Bureau

  May 15th is the 14th national publicity day for public security organs to crack down on and prevent economic crimes. Reporter The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) learned from the press conference held by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau that since the beginning of this year, the Shanghai public security organs have closely combined with the theme education to further promote the "Lijian 2023" series of crackdown and rectification actions, and have detected more than 1,300 cases of economic crimes, recovering economic losses of more than 2.8 billion yuan, effectively boosting the continuous optimization and continuous improvement of Shanghai’s business environment and economic order.

  Among the more than 1,300 cases detected, the case of "rewarding" money laundering by webcasting was the first in China. In this case, Shanghai police arrested 21 suspects and smashed a new money laundering criminal industrial chain parasitic on webcasting platforms and transferring illegal fund-raising, involving nearly 100 million yuan.

  Fund-raising fraud funds are used for live broadcast rewards.

  In the early stage, Pudong Branch of Shanghai Public Security Bureau filed a case of fund-raising fraud, and found out that the suspect set up a number of companies from January 2018 to July 2020. In the name of the transfer of the income right of new energy vehicle financing lease, he promised high profits to the public through offline stores, sold various wealth management products, and then illegally raised funds, and finally squandered them. After the criminal suspects arrived at the case one after another, the police continued to promote the memorial service and strive to recover the economic losses for the people to the maximum extent.

  In June last year, in the process of tracing the funds involved, the police found that a huge sum of money was used to recharge and reward a webcast platform. Although the police have seen many criminal suspects squander their money in the process of handling cases, it is rare to use huge sums of money to reward anchors, which has attracted the attention of the police.

  Starting from this, the police fully sorted out the details of the records in which the money involved was used to recharge and reward. With the deepening of the investigation, the police found that the suspect of fund-raising fraud would receive a huge sum of money from the network anchor in his personal account shortly after recharging and rewarding the network anchor. The Shanghai Public Security Economic Investigation Department immediately set up a task force to carry out case investigation, and quickly locked in four network anchors with suspicious behaviors such as centralized batch payment afterwards, such as Li.

  Reward money laundering through live broadcast to achieve "win-win"?

  Taking network anchors as the starting point, the police dug deep and found that these anchors had been closely associated with fund-raising fraud suspects. After further careful investigation, the police successfully dug up a new money laundering criminal channel in which a few network anchors accepted rewards to "brush traffic" and cleaned and transferred money for fund-raising fraud gangs.

  After investigation, from June 2019 to July 2020, the above-mentioned fund-raising fraud suspects got to know the criminal suspect Li and others who acted as anchors on a webcast platform in order to transfer the hidden proceeds of crime, and proposed that they reward gifts in the live broadcast room of Li and others, so as to boost the popularity and exposure of the live broadcast, help them earn the top prize on the live broadcast platform, and instruct Li and others to return the reward money collected to the personal account of the fund-raising fraud suspect afterwards.

  After the job is done, Li and others can also collect part of the commission as a reward. Subsequently, Li and others, knowing that the reward money was the proceeds of fund-raising fraud, collected the money by accepting rewards during the live broadcast, and exchanged the reward money by means of cash withdrawal and transfer, so as to clean and transfer the money for the criminal suspect.

  Reward coins into money laundering tools.

  Not only that, but after further investigation, the police found that since October 2020, many suspects of telecom fraud and online gambling have met Fan and others who were employees of Li’s live studio at that time through social software. In order to help these criminal suspects clean and transfer the criminal money, Fan and others acted as reward agents, knowing that the criminal suspect’s funds were illegal gains, they bought the platform account with a large amount of reward money from the criminal suspect’s money at a price ranging from 60% to 70% of the original price, and then sold the platform account at a price ranging from 70% to 8.5% of the original price to earn the difference, covering up and concealing the criminal proceeds for these upstream crimes.

  On February 8-9 this year, after making a careful arrest plan in advance, with the unified command and deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and the strong cooperation of relevant provincial and municipal public security organs, the Shanghai police launched a centralized network-closing operation in batches in 11 provinces and cities across the country, and arrested 21 suspects including Li and Fan in one fell swoop.

  According to the relevant laws and regulations of the state, in order to conceal and conceal the income from crimes of disrupting financial management order and financial fraud, and the source and nature of the income generated, those who provide fund accounts or transfer funds through transfer or other payment and settlement methods are suspected of money laundering. Whoever knowingly conceals, transfers, purchases, sells on behalf of others or conceals or conceals the proceeds of crime is suspected of concealing or concealing the crime.

  At present, with the approval of the procuratorate, four suspects, including Li, have been arrested by the police according to law on suspicion of money laundering, and 17 suspects, including Fan, have been taken criminal compulsory measures according to law on suspicion of concealing and concealing the crime. In the next step, the police will continue to dig deep into upstream crimes and strive to crack down on the whole chain.

More than 20 provinces should pay attention to these new changes when registering for the 2023 college entrance examination!

  BEIJING, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) Recently, more than 20 provinces have successively started the registration of the 2023 college entrance examination, and the recruitment regulations for arts and sports in various provinces have also been announced. What are the new changes and regulations in the college entrance examination policy in 2023?

  More than 20 provinces started the registration of the 2023 college entrance examination.

  The reporter noted that since the middle and late October, all localities have successively started the registration of the 2023 college entrance examination. As of November 2, online registration in Fujian, Sichuan, Shanghai, Anhui and other places has ended, and college entrance examination registration in Beijing, Chongqing, Tianjin, Guangxi, Gansu and other places is in progress. Online registration for the 2023 college entrance examination in most provinces will end this month.

  The registration process of college entrance examination published in many places generally includes the preliminary examination of registration qualification, online declaration, on-site confirmation, online payment and other links, and candidates need to complete the registration procedures within the specified time. For candidates who have not registered for the college entrance examination, Shanghai, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangxi and other places will organize supplementary registration. Guangxi also mentioned that candidates who missed the official registration time due to special circumstances such as epidemic isolation can apply for re-registration. However, Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Hubei and other places have made it clear that no supplementary registration will be arranged after the deadline.

  At present, affected by the spread of epidemics in many places, some provinces have also adopted online and offline combination and agent registration. For example, Anhui issued a reminder that candidates who are unable to return to the college entrance examination on time due to the epidemic situation can be entrusted by the admissions examination institution where the candidates are enrolled to handle the registration procedures on their behalf.

  From 2023, these candidates no longer have the qualifications for the three special programs.

  In 2012, China began to implement special enrollment plans for rural and poverty-stricken areas, including national special plans, university special plans and local special plans. The subordinate universities and provincial key universities put special enrollment indicators for students in poverty-stricken areas and rural areas.

  In this regard, there are also relevant registration regulations in various places. For example, Gansu mentioned that such candidates must return to the county (city, district) where their household registration is located, and the household registration, student status and actual place of study of candidates for national and university programs shall implement the "three unifications" policy in the same county (city, district) in the region. Yunnan also requires in the application notice that candidates who apply for national special, local special and college special qualifications must ensure that their household registration, student status, registration and actual place of study are in the same county (city, district) in the implementation area.

  In addition, according to the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Education, starting from the college entrance examination in 2023, candidates who abandoned their admission qualifications or dropped out of school after being admitted to national special programs, university special programs and local special programs in previous years no longer have the qualifications for the above three special programs.

  Special types of enrollment welcome new changes

  For a long time, special types of enrollment such as art and sports have attracted much attention. In recent years, there have been many new changes in special types of enrollment in colleges and universities.

  In 2021, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Some Special Types of Enrollment in Ordinary Colleges and Universities in 2022", requiring colleges and universities to further reduce the professional scope of art school examinations and gradually improve the requirements for admission of cultural courses.

  According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education, from 2024 onwards, high-level art troupes in colleges and universities will no longer be selected from the enrollment process of colleges and universities, but will be selected and trained by relevant colleges and universities from the students. In other words, the college entrance examination in 2023 will be the last year for high-level art troupes in colleges and universities to be selected from the enrollment process in colleges and universities.

  In 2021, the Ministry of Education and the State Sports General Administration also issued "Guiding Opinions on Further Improving and Standardizing the Examination Enrollment of High-level Sports Teams in Colleges and Universities", requiring that from 2024, all the cultural examination scores of candidates of high-level sports teams will use the national unified college entrance examination results. Professional tests are all included in the national unified examination, which is organized and implemented by the State Sports General Administration, and colleges and universities no longer organize relevant school examinations.

  Among them, the "world-class university building university" that recruits high-level sports teams must meet the minimum control score of undergraduate admission in the source province; Other colleges and universities require candidates’ college entrance examination scores to reach 80% of the minimum control score for undergraduate admission in the province of origin.

  Strictly guard against "college entrance examination immigrants"

  Maintaining fairness and justice has always been the top priority of the college entrance examination. In this regard, various policies and measures have been introduced in various places to prevent "college entrance examination immigrants", favoritism and fraud.

  For example, Tianjin requires that candidates who violate the rules such as hanging up their school status and being absent from school will be resolutely retired. Inner Mongolia, on the other hand, requested in the notice of application that the household registration of candidates who have changed for less than three years and whose household registration has moved from outside the region and is suspected of "college entrance examination immigration" should be reviewed emphatically.

  In addition, Inner Mongolia also requires that candidates who provide false personal information, obtain registration qualifications with false registration materials, do not meet the registration conditions but complete formal registration and verification, such as "college entrance examination immigrants", should be disqualified from registration and examination, those who are verified after the examination should be disqualified from the college entrance examination, those who are verified after admission should be disqualified from admission, and those who have already enrolled should be disqualified from taking part in various national education examinations for 1-3 years, depending on the seriousness of the case.