On New year`s Day, when everyone was busy celebrating the New year, a judgment broke the silence.
Two Chinese women living in Australia, who were found by a judge to be "involved in money-laundering offences," were not only warned separately by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Ministry of Home Affairs, but also frozen by the court of a full US $ two hundred thousand in assets.
Terrible damage!
The story starts in 2015. In March 2015, a Chinese woman, (Weili Cui, and her friend, Ma Bei (Bei Jiang, entered a branch of NAB Bank in Sydney.
They went to a deposit machine, opened a black bag and began to deposit.
It should be normal, by reason, for the Chinese to take out excess cash from their homes and deposit them in bank accounts.
(photo source: Web)
However, just as the two men took out large black bags and were ready to start saving,
The bank clerks on the side ran straight into the bank and called the police.
For no other reason:
Experienced bank clerks found at a glance that this plain-looking large bag contained at least six figures of cash!
(photo source: Web)
Until the siren sounded outside, Ms. Cui and Ms. Jiang did not know what had happened, nor did they know why these policemen suddenly came to their side and ordered them to stop in English. But also directly seized their bank cards and cash!?
Questions about transcripts are numerous, assets are frozen
Then Ms. Cui and Ms. Jiang were taken to the police station for questioning, and the police asked them: where did your money come from?
Ms Cui, perhaps for a moment, replied: it was from a fat man and a skinny man.
Ms Cui may not have thought of this as evidence that she would be frozen in the future.
The two of them were detained by AFP official Darren Burtenshaw, who, after questioning, quickly linked Ms. Choi`s case to the word "money laundering".
And at that time, also coincided with the ATO in 2017 on the "big four lines of money laundering doors" investigation period, so Ms. Cui was soon charged with money-laundering charges!
In response, Ms. Cui argued: she said the money came from a legitimate source, of which A $60,000 was accessed for six family members of her family, and none of the six families carried more than 10,000 cash and was therefore not in violation of customs rules.
Ms. Cui also said the money was used to "pay off" the debt, and she did not know who the debtor was because the other party was in contact with her husband.
However, as Ms Choi was brought to court, she turned over her confession in court, admitting that she had lied to the investigator!
Ms. Cui and her husband said they lied to the police because they were worried that the money exchange procedure was "illegal";
The source of the money was justified, and the person who helped her exchange was the husband of another Chinese woman, Jiang Bei, who was on the scene at the time, Wang Junguo (Junguo Wang,
Wang Junguo, whose English name is Jason, is actually the head of an immigration visa service company that helped Ms. Cui and her husband handle immigration.
At the scene, it even released a recording between them: Jason asked Ms. Choi to "make contact" with a friend with $ two hundred thousand, saying that one of her friends had a $ two hundred thousand in hand, but had no bank account. I need Ms. Choi`s help.
(court records, photo source: Internet
Ms Choi was hesitant at the time to "be fake money", but Mr Wang said there were few fake money. Found in Australia
Finally, more than two years later, this once raging case was finally pronounced:
Although Ms. Cui eventually turned over her confession on the spot and proved that the money came from Ms. Jiang`s husband, Mr. Cui, the High Court Grand judge McCallum held that Ms. Choi had previously insisted on several occasions that the money came from "a pair of skinny and fat men." She doubted the reliability of the money.
"it seems to me that from the very beginning, Ms. Cui knew that the money had been obtained through illegal activities."
If the money came from the right source, the judge also noted, why did the two women save money for garbage bags?
And in the judge`s view, this is Ms. Cui and Ms. Jiang, as well as their husbands suspected of money laundering!
(photo source: BuzzFeed News)
In the end, the court decided to freeze the "suspicious assets" because eventually the money could no longer prove whether the source was legal.
In addition, according to reports, relevant authorities have launched an investigation into Mr. Wang`s immigration agency. Under Australian local law, immigration agencies must comply with goverment rules or risk revoking their business permits and disqualification.
In addition, in a letter addressed to AFP by Judge McCallum, it was hoped that they would take seriously the lies of Ms. Choi and her husband, Mr. Li, in the course of the investigation.
Now that the AFP and the Immigration Service belong to the Ministry of the Interior, it may be the investigation from the Department of Immigration that will await them!
Today, several parties have refused to respond to the outcome of the case, nor have they filed any information about the appeal.
In Australia, this help can`t be helped casually.
However, there is no denying that in Australia, "help people save money" this help, can really not help casually!
Before that, the Australian Weekly News has reported a number of cases in which Chinese Australians and overseas students "put themselves into it" by following others` beliefs and helping others save money:
Feng Yi, a 19-year-old Chinese student who entered the country on a foreign student visa, became a so-called "money mule" because of his greed for temporary interests.
Learning to carry a large amount of cash across Australia to access the cash, was eventually found to be money laundering for others up to more than 405 million, eventually sent to prison by the police, immediately after the return of the prison, a good future destroyed!
Before that, there were similar cases: because Lu Jizhang, a Chinese engineer named Lu Jizhang, had no face to refuse other people`s requests for help, he was allowed to use his name to "launder money" as high as A $17.7 million.
When Australian police arrested him for "suspected mass money laundering", Lou was immediately sentenced to two years in prison and repatriated immediately after the two-year prison term was lifted.
These are Chinese or because of interests temptation, or because they do not know how to refuse others, and caused by the bitter fruit.
In recent years, various goverment departments in Australia, represented by the ATO, have been severely cracking down on money laundering, while some Chinese easily trust the so-called "high exchange of foreign exchange" and "discounted money" by their compatriots, but have fallen into the trap of other people`s money laundering. Not only can`t get out, but it gets deeper and deeper.
Therefore, here, the editor still has to advise everyone:
If other people ask you to save money, leave a few more hearts, directly refuse!
After all, if the other party is even these money to worry about the small person, such friends are not worthy of your deep acquaintance, but also not worth you for him, set up their own future!
