Zhiming New Case – Entrusted Defense for Online Financial Fraud
Our office, April 12 news:
Zhong, a person born in the 1990s, worked for a company that collaborated with another company. Without the necessary business qualifications, they fabricated art investment products, adopted futures trading rules, and deceived investors into trading. Through these means, the two companies collected high handling fees, causing significant losses to clients. The main responsible persons of both companies, along with some employees (including Zhong), were taken under control by public security authorities and placed under investigation for suspected online financial fraud.
Zhong's father originally thought Zhong was just a low-level technician, whose daily work was merely to answer customers' technical questions during operation, without impersonating an investment advisor to analyze investments or pretending to be an experienced investor to gain clients' trust. Even if Zhong knew something about the company's actual internal operations, he was at most an accomplice. But after receiving the prosecutor's indictment, Zhong's father immediately collapsed to the ground—because due to the nature of Zhong's job, which involved frequently guiding investors in operational techniques, the prosecutor accused him of being responsible for 27 million of the company's 50 million yuan in fraud. The threshold for this amount is 10 years, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Zhong's father, in desperation, made extensive inquiries and learned that the Zhiming lawyer team of Guangdong Zhiming Law Firm had previously provided defense for suspects in multiple major and complex online financial fraud criminal cases, and had on several occasions, through highly skillful litigation techniques, cleared the names of suspects charged with serious crimes in gang-related offenses, leading the court to convict them of lesser charges or even acquit them. As a result, Zhong's father came to Guangdong Zhiming Law Firm seeking help after hearing of its reputation. After an initial review of the case, the Zhiming lawyer team accepted Zhong's father's commission.
