A criminal gang was arrested for using digital RMB to launder more than 200,000 yuan in Zhejiang

Odaily News Recently, the Yuecheng District Procuratorate of Shaoxing City handled a case of using digital RMB accounts to cash out and conceal criminal proceeds. In just four days, the criminal suspect Yuan and others cashed out more than 200,000 yuan in Shaoxing. Yuan wooed merchants with digital RMB accounts through shopping and chatting. After the merchants agreed to cash out, he first converted a certain amount of his money into virtual currency as a deposit and transferred it to the upstream company, and then sent the digital RMB payment code to the upstream company. After the fraudulent funds of the upstream company entered the merchants digital RMB account, the merchant deducted a handling fee ranging from 1% to 1.5%, and then took out the corresponding amount of cash. Since there are not many stores that support digital RMB payments, multiple operations are easy to be discovered. In order to evade the investigation and crackdown by the public security organs, Yuan and others usually use overseas niche chat tools to contact the upstream company. Since the beginning of September, they have been wandering in Shaoxing, Jinhua, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places. After the cashing out is successful, they drive a motor vehicle to a new crime scene and turn the money obtained from the fraud of the upstream company from black to white. Finally, the Yuecheng District Procuratorate filed a public prosecution, and the court sentenced Yuan, Zhang, and Kou to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one year and four months to seven months and imposed fines for the crime of concealing and hiding the proceeds of crime.