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

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 own 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 upstream company's fraudulent funds entered the merchant's digital RMB account, the merchant deducted a handling fee ranging from 1% to 1.5%, and then took out the corresponding amount of cash. Because there are not many stores that support digital RMB payments, multiple operations are easy to be discovered. In order to avoid investigation and crackdown by public security organs, Yuan and others usually use overseas niche chat tools to contact their upstream companies. Since early September, they have been wandering around Shaoxing, Jinhua, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places. After successfully cashing out, they drove a motor vehicle to a new crime scene and turned the money obtained from the upstream fraud from "black" to "white". Finally, the Yuecheng District Procuratorate brought 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.