Suspects Attempting to Defraud Mortgage Loan ArrestedPolice have arrested two suspects who allegedly attempted to defraud a mortgage loan company with a fake bank deposit slip in northeast China's Jilin Province.Chen Anping and Yang Hongli, the suspects, brought with them a time deposit certificate of 19.6 million yuan (2.36 million U.S. dollars) when they came to a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) in the Development Zone of Changchun, capital city of Jilin Province. They showed the certificate of deposit to the bank employees and talked with them about how to get loans with the deposit certificate as a mortgage. Their behavior aroused the suspicions of the employees because it was very strange for one asking for a bank loan with such a huge sum of deposit as mortgage. The employees were proven correct about their suspicions because after they called the ABC branch in Luohe of central China's Henan Province which was alleged to have received the 19.6 million yuan of deposit and granted the certificate of deposit. The ABC branch in Henan Province had never dealt with such a business. Police soon arrested Chen Anping in his hotel. Yang Hongli who escaped to Beijing was also arrested. Yang admitted that he paid 20,000 yuan to a stranger named Li Kuanghuai he met in Shenzhen of Guangdong Province for the deposit certificate. He called his friend Chen Anping and asked him to buy a fake ID card with the name of Bi Hongjun. Yang and Chen defrauded more than 100,000 yuan from a business manager by saying that they would help him get a bank loan with the deposit ticket. Police in Changchun went to Luohe City for an investigation and discovered that the deposit certificate itself was true. But the real sum of the money deposited was only 300 yuan. According to the police, the suspect (or suspects) was very wise in altering the deposit certificate which could not be identified as a fake one from its surface. The case is under further investigation and the police are looking for a person named Li Kuanghuai. |
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