67 held for defrauding insurance firm
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Sixty-seven suspects have been caught for allegedly defrauding an insurance company, Shanghai police said yesterday. Some of them worked for the firm.
The suspects allegedly embezzled more than 60 million yuan (US$9.3 million) in company bonuses for new salespeople, who sales records were boosted by using fraudulent means.
The insurance firm, whose name was not revealed, reported the case to police in Jing鈥檃n District in August last year.
The company started an investigation on its own after receiving several complaints from clients that they were approached by people claiming to be the company鈥檚 sales personnel and persuaded to give up their original policies and buy new ones.
In its police complaint, the company said it found that some of its sales staff were running a fraud scheme along with some outsiders.
One of the company鈥檚 clients, a woman surnamed Li who lives in Ningbo city, Zhejiang Province, told police that she was approached by a man surnamed Liu in April who claimed to be from the company. She was persuaded to purchase another insurance policy and lost no money in terminating her previous one.
However, when Li filed a claim to the company based on the new policy, she found that the salesman who served her was a man surnamed Zhang and that the policy was totally different from what she heard from Liu. The company told Li that Liu was not its employee.
Liu was in fact an illegal insurance salesman hired by a man surnamed Xu, who has over 10 years鈥 experience in the insurance industry. Xu was in touch with two people in the management team of the firm鈥檚 Shanghai branch.
The duo provided contact information of the company鈥檚 clients to Xu鈥檚 illegal sales team, and the new policy contracts signed were registered under the names of the firm鈥檚 new staff, who were then given bonuses for exceptional sales, police said.
The 67 suspects were rounded up from Shanghai as well as Hubei, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces in a recent police raid.
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