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The official WeChat account of the Jiangxi Provincial Court in mainland China recently announced a case. A woman surnamed Wan defrauded death-penalty drug dealers in the detention center, falsely claiming to spend 150,000 yuan to help her “find a relationship” to help her sentence of death suspended in the second instance. After the trial, the court held that Wannu defrauded others of RMB 70,000 by fabricating facts for the purpose of illegal possession, which was a huge amount. Her behavior constituted a crime of fraud and she was finally sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison.
“Jiupai News” reported that at the end of August 2019, Wan met Deng at the Ji’an Detention Center for contract fraud. After learning that Deng was sentenced to death in the first instance for drug trafficking, Wan lied that he might “find a relationship” to help Deng’s second-instance sentence be changed with a reprieve, which would cost regarding 150,000 yuan.
From suspicion to belief, Deng gave Wan his husband’s contact information, and asked Wan to contact him to help him “find a relationship” to change his sentence. After Wan was released, she approached Deng’s relatives, claiming that she was entrusted by Deng to help “find a relationship” to commute the death sentence with a reprieve, but she needed to pay 150,000 yuan in fees. Deng’s relatives immediately expressed their willingness to pay if they might help Deng’s sentence be changed to a suspended death sentence, but Wan must pay in advance. After getting the consent, Wan and Deng’s relatives exchanged contact information.
At the beginning of January 2020, Wan falsely claimed that Deng had paid more than 100,000 yuan in advance. Now that he has financial difficulties, he asked for the return of the advance payment. Deng’s relatives believed it was true, and transferred 35,000 yuan, 40,000 yuan, and 2,000 yuan to Wan’s bank account three times, totaling 77,000 yuan. Wan received the above money and used it to repay his arrears and personal daily expenses, and finally returned 7,000 yuan. Before the incident, there was still 70,000 yuan that had not been returned.
The court held that Wan, for the purpose of illegal possession, fabricated facts and defrauded others of RMB 70,000, which was a huge amount, and his behavior constituted a crime of fraud. Wan committed a new crime during the probation period. The suspension should be revoked according to the law and he should be punished together with the new crime. Wan committed fraud and contract fraud. He was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison for several crimes and a fine of RMB 10,000. 9,000 yuan, ordered to refund 70,000 yuan.
After the verdict was pronounced in the first instance, Wan refused to accept the appeal and appealed. The Ji’an Intermediate People’s Court held that the facts in the original judgment were clear, the evidence was reliable and sufficient, the conviction was accurate, the sentence was appropriate, the application of the law was correct, and the trial procedure was legal, so it made the above ruling.
