Death for 5 in mineaccidents scam
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Five members of a 21-strong gang have been sentenced to death for killing four miners and staging accidents in a bid to defraud mining companies out of compensation.
The others were sentenced to prison terms of up to 15 years at a court in north China’s Hebei Province.
The gang leaders were familiar with industry practices, having worked in mines for many years, the Handan City Intermediate People’s Court heard.
The men who died, migrant workers from southwest China’s Sichuan Province, had been persuaded to work in the mines by gang members.
Their deaths were made to look like accidents while gang members used fake identity cards to claim they were relatives of the deceased.
The gang took in about 1.8 million yuan (US$292,000) from three “accidents,” but failed at their last attempt in August 2012.
The gang targeted small mines where management was lax, the court heard, and victims who would not be missed in their home villages.
The last victim was hooked by a member of the gang who initiated a relationship with him to gain details such as the scars and moles on his body for use when she sought compensation. She even promised to marry him while sending him to work at a mine in Hebei.
The man, like the other victims, was bludgeoned to death and explosives were used to fake an accident.
But the mine owner became suspicious during negotiations, the court heard, due to what he regarded as abnormal behavior by the “relatives.”
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