Recently, a hot topic emerged involving a female customer manager from Everbright Bank who allegedly used her position to defraud bank customers of 160 million yuan. As of the incident, nearly 95 million yuan remains unrecovered, with over 60 million yuan reportedly spent on tipping live streamers.
According to a report by Tech Financial Online, court documents revealed that from June 2009 to June 2022, the mastermind behind the scheme, Xi Wei, exploited her role as a customer manager at an Everbright Bank branch in Zhengzhou to recommend fictitious investment products to clients she was acquainted with, promising principal and interest protection and high returns, thereby gaining the trust of 31 victims.
By June 2022, Xi Wei had fraudulently obtained a total of 160 million yuan from customers. As of the incident, she had returned 60.31 million yuan in principal to victims, paid 7.66 million yuan in interest, leaving 94.48215 million yuan still to be recovered.
Of the over 90 million yuan, apart from purchasing cars and houses, Xi Wei spent a significant portion on tipping live streamers, with over 60 million yuan involved. Specifically, she recharged over 59.51 million yuan on the Yingke platform and over 1.7 million yuan on Douyin.
Zhengzhou Intermediate People’s Court ruled that Xi Wei was guilty of fraud and ordered asset recovery.
Evidence in the case showed that from September 2016 to September 2022, Xi Wei’s three Yingke accounts were recharged a total of 4,091 times, amounting to over 59.01 million yuan, with 253,660 gifts sent. These accounts gifted a total of 2,565 anchors, mainly focusing on 16 of them. Xi Wei also recharged over 490,000 yuan on two other Yingke accounts, offering gifts to 232 anchors, with most gifts going to seven anchors.
The news of an Everbright Bank customer manager defrauding customers of nearly a hundred million yuan and tipping live streamers with over 60 million yuan has attracted attention and discussion among netizens. Some comments on social media suggest that tipping live streamers is a form of money laundering.
Extraordinary: Isn’t this kind of tipping a form of money laundering?
Wing of Freedom: Such blatant money laundering behavior.
Tencent netizen: Making (dirty) money disappear more conveniently, that’s tipping live streamers for you.
w..: The tips should also be recovered.