人民网
Tue,Nov 5,2013
English>>China Society

Editor's Pick

Chinese woman sentenced to death for fraud

(Xinhua)    16:32, November 05, 2013
Email|Print|Comments       twitter     facebook     Sina Microblog     reddit    

A court in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Tuesday rejected the appeal of a woman sentenced to death for cheating investors out of 1.23 billion yuan (200 million U.S. dollars).

The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Higher People's Court upheld the verdict of the Erdos Intermediate People's Court in the case of Su Yenyu, 42, who was sentenced to death on Jan. 25 this year.

All of her personal wealth has been confiscated.

Su cheated investors out of 1.23 billion yuan using high returns as bait, personally misappropriating 552 million yuan.

The amount of the fraud was extraordinarily large and caused significant damage to both the country and the people. In such cases the death penalty is mandatory, according to the court.

Su began her illegal fundraising in 2006, using the funds to invest in restaurants, health clubs, coal mines and farms, even buying lottery tickets worth 20 million yuan. She burned all documents relating to her business between 2006 to October 2009. She surrendered to police on Sept. 20, 2011.

Ren Wenxiang, a man who supported Su's endeavors, was sentenced to 5 years for fraud and fined 500,000 yuan.

Erdos, an emerging city surrounded by vast grasslands, has made a fortune from large reserves of coal and natural gas in the past decade.

(Editor:HuangJin、Gao Yinan)

Related reading

We Recommend

Most Viewed

Day|Week|Month

Key Words

Links