明明是传销，却通过发行虚拟数字货币的方式发展了千万会员。MBI集团创始人张某某是如何涉案资金超一千亿元的？
据公安部消息，8月20日晚，在国内有关部门、我驻泰国使馆和泰国执法部门的大力协助下，公安部“猎狐行动”工作组将涉嫌组织、领导传销活动罪的特大经济犯罪嫌疑人张某某从泰国成功引渡回国。此案系1999年中泰引渡条约生效后，中国从泰国引渡的首名经济犯罪嫌疑人。
[xyz-ihs snippet=”In-article-ads”]自2012年以来，以犯罪嫌疑人张某某为首的MBI集团通过发行虚拟数字货币的方式，要求参加者缴纳700元至24.5万元人民币不等的费用获得平台会员资格，以高额返利为诱饵，以发展会员数量、投入资金数量作为计酬方式或者返利依据，实施网络传销违法犯罪活动。该集团共发展会员一千余万人次，涉案资金超一千亿元人民币。
据多家媒体此前报道，MBI全称为“马来西亚恩必爱集团”，创始人是马来西亚华人张誉发。
北京青年报报道称，2017年，在马来西亚当地取缔MBI集团金字塔传销行动中，有90多个户头、过亿资金被冻结，张誉发本人也被警方扣押多日。只不过在马来西亚当地媒体采访时，仍有众多MBI的参与者相信，集团实力雄厚，会挺过这段难关。
MBI所创立的投资模式，需要参与者前期最少100美元的投入，获得MBI所发行的“易物点”。所谓“易物点”只涨不跌，而且每年公司都会分几次配送，投资者所持的易物点将会增加，前期投入越大、收益越多，这是所谓的“静态收益”。此外，参与者如果介绍新人加入，包括新人及其之后所推荐人的投资，按比例都会有奖金归于介绍人，这些则是“动态收益”。
[xyz-ihs snippet=”GoogleADresponsive”]央视网此前的报道曾介绍，经查实，犯罪嫌疑人王某等人打着“游戏理财计划”的幌子，在网上设立“MFC游戏理财平台”，将其推出的“易物币”打造成虚拟货币，通过在线商城购物、线下商家交易等方式，使“易物币”发生流通，再通过举办宣讲会等形式公开宣传投资虚拟币只涨不跌等谎言，以高额回报为诱饵，大肆发展下线。
利息，也就是所谓的静态收益。除了“股价”上涨的收益，更为参与者看重的是“拆分”，这个概念类似于股市的无偿配股。代币只拆分不增发。参与者人数会越来越多，“股价”不断上涨，当代币数量不能满足投资者需求的时候，就会进行“拆分”，一个币变成两个甚至更多。
但是，真正使参与者成几何倍增长的还在于动态收入，也就是发展下线的奖励。和大多数传销骗局一样，MBI也设置了多种奖励，根据发展下线的数量及投资额，以代币形式赠送。不同的用户名和ID号按照三角布局，形成一个巨大的金字塔网络，每拉入一个新人，就能获得成倍的奖励，也就有越来越多人卷入其中。其运行的手法本质就是“先吃后”的庞氏骗局、击鼓传花的金钱游戏。
警方表示，无论传销的花样怎么翻新，“马甲”穿得再多，变的只是脸，本质不会变。只要具备“缴纳入门费，发展下线，通过直接或间接发展下线获得报酬”这三个特征，撕破“马甲”，传销犯罪实质都没有变化。
据攀枝花市公安局东区分局2019年7月发布的消息，2018年6月，东区公安分局在侦办一起案件时发现涉案嫌疑人在利用团队组织进行疑似网络传销活动，该线索引起了警方的高度关注，并于2018年7月5号抽调精干警力成立专案组，对这一案件展开立案调查。
经办案民警侦查发现，该组织的传销骨干通过建立微信群和四处撒网拉人等方式，谎称投资理财，以买入只涨不跌，许诺高额红利，拉人入伙提成等方式为投资理财亮点，在微信群内鼓励大家购买产品、复投资金、大力发展下线成员。马来西亚MBI集团除了推出MFC的网络传销平台外，还推出了“阳光链”、“榴莲币”、“CTM”等19个传销产品，通过近几年的发展，在全国乃至世界多个国家蔓延盛行。
看看新闻2017年11月报道称，经过长达一年的前期侦查，上海警方成功破获“MBI”国际集团涉嫌组织领导传销活动案。11月8日凌晨，警方在全市多个区开展集中抓捕行动，共抓获犯罪嫌疑人40余名。据了解，MBI公司以投资“虚拟货币”理财为幌子，拉人头发展成员缴纳入门费后，组成层级关系，开展传销违法犯罪活动，在全国发展会员3万余人。
[xyz-ihs snippet=”googleAD300x100″]与“MBI”有关的传销案件依然不断。2019年10月，中国驻马来西亚使馆关于MBI金钱游戏案声明称，有百名左右中国公民向驻马来西亚使馆领事部报案，表示均系被马来西亚MBI公司以网上传销方式诈骗资金的受害者，要求该公司返还被骗钱款。中国驻马来西亚使馆邀请马当地华人律师在吉隆坡Maluri酒店举行法律咨询会，向200多名近日来马的中国籍MBI金钱游戏涉案人提供法律咨询，介绍与此案相关的法律知识，现场回答大家关心的问题，并促请涉案人合法理性维权。
宁夏固原市公安局原州区分局于2021年7月发布的《关于“MBI”传销案参与人员到公安机关说明情况的通告》显示，2020年，重庆市公安机关对“MBI”国际资产管理集团涉嫌组织、领导传销活动立案侦查。经查，自2012年起，“MBI”集团先后在网上设立“MFC”游戏理财创富平台、“MTI”网络传销平台实施传销犯罪，要求参加者缴纳不等入门费，以此获得不同等级会员身份，并设立“直推奖”、“对碰奖”、“管理奖”等，引诱参加者继续发展他人参加，以获取易物点、回馈积分等传销数字资产，并将参加者按推荐关系形成上下层级，并以参加者直接或间接发展人员数量作为计酬返利依据，其行为触犯了《中华人民共和国刑法》第二百二十四条之一的规定，涉嫌组织、领导传销活动罪。
据公安部介绍，2020年11月，重庆市公安局依法对张某某立案侦查。2021年3月，国际刑警组织中国国家中心局对其发布红色通报。2022年7月21日，泰国警方抓获张某某。随后，中方依据双边引渡条约向泰方提出引渡请求。今年5月21日，泰国上诉法院终审裁决将张某某引渡到中国。8月14日，泰国政府作出行政决定，支持法院上述终审裁决。
来源: 澎湃新闻
[xyz-ihs snippet=”googleAD300x100″]MBI founder Zhang Yufa extradited: virtual currency + pyramid scheme
It is obviously a pyramid scheme, but through the issuance of virtual digital currency to develop ten million members.MBI Group founder Zhang Yufa how the funds involved in the case of more than 100 billion yuan?
According to the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), on the evening of August 20, the MPS ‘Operation Fox Hunt’ working group successfully extradited Zhang Yufa, a major economic suspect suspected of organising and leading pyramid schemes, back to China from Thailand with the assistance of the relevant domestic departments, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Thailand and Thai law enforcement authorities. This case was the first economic crime suspect extradited by China from Thailand after the entry into force of the Sino-Thai Extradition Treaty in 1999.
Since 2012, the MBI Group, led by the suspect Zhang Yufa, has been carrying out illegal and criminal activities of network marketing by issuing virtual digital currencies, requiring participants to pay fees ranging from 700 yuan to 245,000 yuan to obtain membership of the platform, and using high returns as bait to develop the number of members and the amount of funds invested as the basis for remuneration or returns. The group has developed more than 10 million members, involving funds of more than 100 billion yuan.
According to a number of media reports, MBI is known as ‘Malaysian Enbi Ai Group’, and its founder is Malaysian Chinese Zhang Yufa.
Beijing Youth Daily reported that in 2017, in Malaysia, the local ban on MBI Group pyramid selling action, there are more than 90 accounts, more than 100 million funds were frozen, Zhang Yufa himself was detained by the police for many days. Only in Malaysia local media interviews, there are still many MBI participants believe that the group’s strength is strong, will survive this difficult time.
The investment model created by MBI requires participants to invest a minimum of US$100 upfront to obtain ‘barter points’ issued by MBI. The so-called ‘barter points’ will only go up but not down, and the company will distribute them several times a year, and the barter points held by the investor will increase, and the greater the investment in the early stage, the greater the gain, which is the so-called ‘static gain’. In addition, participants who introduce new people to join, including new people and their subsequent recommended investment, in proportion to the bonus will be attributed to the introducer, these are ‘dynamic gains’.
CCTV’s previous report has introduced, after investigation, the suspect Wang Mou and others under the guise of ‘game financial plan’, set up the ‘MFC game financial platform’ on the Internet, the launch of the ‘barter coins’ as a virtual currency, and then through the online shopping mall shopping offline business transactions and other ways to make the ‘barter coins’ circulation, and then by holding seminars and other forms of publicity investment in virtual coins only rise. The ‘barter coins’ are made into virtual currency, and the circulation of ‘barter coins’ occurs through online shopping malls and offline merchant transactions, and then through the organisation of seminars and other forms of publicity for investing in virtual coins that only go up but not down, and other lies, and the development of downline in a big way, with high returns as the bait.
Interest, also known as static income. In addition to the ‘share price’ rise in earnings, more participants value the ‘split’, this concept is similar to the stock market gratuitous share allotment. The tokens will only be split and not issued. The number of participants will be more and more, the ‘stock price’ continues to rise, when the number of tokens can not meet the demand of investors, will be ‘split’, one coin into two or more.
However, the real geometric growth of participants also lies in the dynamic income, that is, the development of downline reward. Like most pyramid schemes, MBI has set up a variety of rewards, based on the number of downline development and the amount of investment, in the form of tokens. Different user names and ID numbers in accordance with the triangular layout, forming a huge pyramid network, each pulling in a newcomer, you can get double the reward, there are more and more people involved. The essence of its operation is ‘first eat after’ Ponzi scheme, drumming money game.
The police said, no matter how the pattern of the pyramid scheme renovation, ‘waistcoat’ wear more, change only face, the essence will not change. As long as there is a ‘payment of entry fees, the development of downline, through the direct or indirect development of the downline to get paid’ the three characteristics, tear ‘waistcoat’, the essence of the criminal pyramid scheme have not changed.
According to the Panzhihua Municipal Public Security Bureau East Branch July 2019 news release, in June 2018, the East District Public Security Bureau in the investigation of a case found that the suspects involved in the use of the team organised a suspected network marketing activities, the clues attracted a high degree of attention to the police, and on July 5, 2018, deployed the best police officers to set up a special task force, the case to start the case of the investigation.
The police investigation found that the backbone of the organisation’s marketing through the establishment of WeChat groups and spread around the net to pull people, etc., falsely claiming that the investment and finance, to buy only up and not down, the promise of high dividends, pulling people into the partnership commission, etc. for the investment and finance highlights, in the WeChat group to encourage people to buy the product, reinvestment of funds, and vigorously develop the members of the downline. Malaysia MBI Group, in addition to the launch of the MFC network marketing platform, also launched the ‘Sunshine Chain’, ‘Durian Coin’, ‘CTM’ and other 19 marketing products, through the development of recent years, in the country and even in the country. In recent years, it has spread across the country and even in many countries around the world.
In November 2017, Shanghai News reported that after a year-long preliminary investigation, Shanghai police successfully cracked the case of ‘MBI’ international group suspected of organising and leading pyramid selling activities.In the early morning of November 8, the police carried out centralised arrest operations in several districts of the city, and arrested more than 40 suspects in total. It is understood that the MBI company to invest in ‘virtual currency’ financial management as a front, the head of the development of members to pay the entrance fee, the formation of hierarchical relationships, to carry out illegal and criminal activities of pyramid schemes, the development of members in the country more than 30,000 people.
In October 2019, the Chinese Embassy in Malaysia issued a statement on the MBI money game case, saying that about 100 Chinese citizens had reported to the Consular Department of the Malaysian Embassy, saying that they were all victims of being defrauded by the Malaysian company MBI in the form of an online pyramid scheme, and demanding that the company return the money they had been defrauded of. The Chinese Embassy in Malaysia invited local Malaysians to return the money they had been defrauded of. The Chinese Embassy in Malaysia invited local Chinese lawyers to hold a legal counselling session at the Maluri Hotel in Kuala Lumpur to provide legal advice to more than 200 Chinese nationals involved in the MBI money game who have recently come to Malaysia, introduce the legal knowledge related to the case, answer questions of concern on the spot, and urge the people involved in the case to legally and rationally defend their rights.
The ‘Notice on the Explanation of the Situation of the Participants of the “MBI” MLM Case to the Public Security Organs’ issued by the Yuanzhou District Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Guyuan City, Ningxia, in July 2021, shows that in 2020, the public security authorities of Chongqing Municipality were Suspected of organising and leading pyramid selling activities. After investigation, since 2012, ‘MBI’ group has set up online ‘MFC’ game financial wealth creation platform, ‘MTI’ network marketing platform to implement the crime of pyramid selling, ‘MBI’ group has set up online ‘MFC’ game financial wealth creation platform, ‘MTI’ network marketing platform to implement the crime of pyramid selling. Participants were required to pay different entry fees to obtain different levels of membership, and ‘direct promotion prizes’, ‘matching prizes’ and ‘management prizes’ were set up to lure participants to continue to develop their business. The company also set up ‘direct push awards’, ‘butt awards’, ‘management awards’, etc., luring participants to continue to develop other people to participate, in order to obtain barter points, feedback points and other marketing digital assets, and the participants will be recommended to form the upper and lower tiers, and the number of participants directly or indirectly developed as the basis for rewarding the return of profits, their behaviour violated the provisions of Article 224 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China, suspected of organising and leading pyramid selling activities crime.
According to the Ministry of Public Security, in November 2020, the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau opened a case for investigation against Zhang in accordance with the law.2021 In March 2021, the China National Central Bureau of Interpol issued a red notice against him.2022 On July 21, Thai police captured Zhang. Subsequently, the Chinese side submitted an extradition request to the Thai side in accordance with the bilateral extradition treaty. On 21 May this year, the Court of Appeal of Thailand made a final decision to extradite Zhang to China.On 14 August, the Thai government made an administrative decision to support the court’s final decision.
[xyz-ihs snippet=”In-article-ads”]张誉发已于周二下午被中国当局引渡到中国接受调查。
（泰叻报）（吉隆坡21日讯）因涉及欺诈及通过网络洗黑钱而在泰国被捕的大马籍MBI国际集团创办人张誉发，已于昨午在泰国和中国执法官员押送下，乘机从泰国被引渡到中国受审接受调查。根据泰国媒体《泰叻报》的报道，中国驻泰国大使馆安排官员从曼谷监狱带走张誉发，原定乘坐晚上7时35分的CA960的航班飞往中国，却临时改乘当天下午5时34分上海航空公司FM834航班，从曼谷飞往上海。
在此之前，泰国法院最终裁定将张誉发引渡至中国；根据裁决，从5月21日最终判决之日起90天内，张誉发必须被引渡至中国。 尽管检察官要求法院延长引渡期限时，获法院批准将期限延长至11月15日，不过泰国于昨天让中国当局将张誉发引渡到中国。
根据早前报道，张誉发被指在中国建立传销组织，以提供服务为名，要求参与者支付费用或购买产品以成为会员，会员分为8个级别，并被邀请参加海外考察和领导会议。根据会员级别，他们将获得相应的报酬。
[xyz-ihs snippet=”GoogleADresponsive”]中国投资者声称，被骗人士多达200万人，涉及金额更高达5000亿人民币，一些中国投资者自数年前就通过微博，甚至亲自前来大马维权。
中国警方于2020年11月9日，透过国际刑警发布红色通报通缉张誉发，而大马警方也在2021年点名通缉建立庞大“金字塔骗局”，并且向公众出售MBI集团的股票而被起诉冻结财产的张誉发。
由于在大马和中国的业务都无法继续经营，张誉发没有返马，而是选择在泰国投资。
张誉发在泰国定居近10年，他的公司经营着酒店、娱乐场所、游乐园、市场、建筑、房地产和家具业务，总价值数十亿泰铢。这些产业主要集中在丹诺的经济特区，占地超过100莱（约16公顷）。
他建造并收购了六家五星级酒店和十多个娱乐场所，还耗资5000万泰铢建造了泰国最高的象神雕像，个神像高59公尺以及一尊价值超过2000万泰铢的镶嵌宝石的四面佛，供泰国人民和游客在丹诺象神庙参拜。
泰国警方随后于2022年7月21日，搜查张誉发位于松卡府的MBI公司，并逮捕涉嫌通过网络赌博活动洗黑钱的张誉发；张誉发随后被带到宋卡府移民局，他的泰国签证被撤销，然后被带到曼谷接受调查。
中国和大马警方分别向泰国申请引渡张誉发接受调查，去年1月18日，泰国法庭在线上审讯中，判决张誉发被引渡到中国面对欺诈案的调查，但之后张誉发提出上诉。
[xyz-ihs snippet=”GoogleADresponsive”]Zhang Yufa was extradited to China for investigation by Chinese authorities on Tuesday afternoon.
Zhang Yufa, the Malaysian founder of the MBI International Group, who was arrested in Thailand for fraud and money laundering through the Internet, was extradited from Thailand to China for trial and investigation on a flight escorted by law enforcement officials from Thailand and China yesterday afternoon. According to a report by Thai media outlet Thai Rath, the Chinese Embassy in Thailand arranged for officials to take Zhang Yufa from Bangkok Prison on flight CA960 to China, which was scheduled to take off at 7.35pm, but was temporarily diverted to Shanghai Airlines Flight FM834, which departed Bangkok for Shanghai at 5.34pm on the same day.
According to earlier reports, Zhang Yufa was accused of setting up a pyramid scheme in China, where participants were asked to pay fees or buy products in order to become members under the guise of providing services. Members were divided into eight levels and invited to participate in overseas study tours and leadership meetings. Depending on the level of membership, they would be paid accordingly.
Chinese investors have claimed that as many as 2 million people have been defrauded, with the amount of money involved amounting to as much as 500 billion yuan, and some Chinese investors have come to Malaysia to defend their rights through microblogging and even in person since several years ago.
On 9 November 2020, Chinese police issued a Red Notice through Interpol for Zhang Yufa, while Malaysian police in 2021 named Zhang Yufa as the man wanted for setting up a huge ‘pyramid scheme’ and selling MBI Group shares to the public, which led to charges of freezing assets.
As he was unable to continue his business in Malaysia and China, he chose to invest in Thailand instead of returning to Malaysia.
Zhang Yufa has been settled in Thailand for almost 10 years and his companies operate hotels, entertainment venues, amusement parks, markets, construction, property and furniture businesses worth billions of baht. These properties are mainly concentrated in the Special Economic Zone in Danno, covering over 100 rai (about 16 hectares).
He built and acquired six five-star hotels and more than a dozen entertainment venues, and spent 50 million baht to build Thailand’s tallest statue of the elephant god, which is 59 metres high, as well as a jewel-encrusted four-faced Buddha worth more than 20 million baht, which is worshipped by Thai people and tourists at the Danno Elephant Temple.
Thai police then searched Zhang Yufa’s MBI company in Songkhla Province on 21 July 2022 and arrested Zhang Yufa on suspicion of money laundering through online gambling activities; Zhang Yufa was then taken to the Songkhla Province Immigration Office, where his Thai visa was revoked, and then to Bangkok for investigation.
The Chinese and Malaysian police applied to Thailand for Zhang Yufa’s extradition for investigation, and on 18 January last year, a Thai court ruled in an online hearing that Zhang Yufa should be extradited to China to face the fraud investigation, but Zhang Yufa later appealed.
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