A Chinese woman has been put in jail when she staged a marriage with a man, who found her hitching and presented her as a ‘rich’ real estate businessman to her relatives who He was to be taken to the tune of Rs 14 crore ($ 1.6 million). According to a report in South China Morning PostThe 40 -year -old woman from Shanghai, surname,, created the Con Job Plot after a small real estate agency, she failed and went down.
To give more reliability for his plan, Meng proposed to the driver of a random car and staged the wedding. He used the excuse that his parents were pushing her to marry due to their age. The driver, identified by his surname Jiang, agreed to the marriage and held a ceremony.
Later, Meng told his relatives that Jiang had brains behind many major infrastructure projects in the country and had connections that could allow him to buy properties cheaply. Meng also bought a small flat of Rs 1.2 crore ($ 137,000) and sold it to a cousin for half the price.
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‘the plot thickens’
He later asked the cousin to lie to relatives that he got a big price due to Meng and Jiang’s connection. To sell confusion more, she took other relatives to a showroom of new residential buildings and suggested that it could be reduced by Rs 61,000 ($ 700) per square meter in prices.
Due to Meng’s pitch and detailed setup, which he had prepared, at least five relatives gave him a huge amount to buy a flat. Some also sold their existing flats in the hope of transferring to a better assets.
After stopping for years, saying that there was some difficulty in arranging exemption, he rented a flat for those relatives and lied that they were the purchased qualities. Troubled by the situation and some was wrong, one of the relatives questioned the real property developer and when the scam exposed.
It was discovered that the flat was not owned by the flat mang. A court hearing began and he was jailed for 12 years and six months for contract fraud. Jiang, the fake husband got six years as he signed home-giving contracts with the real owners of the flats. His cousin, who lied to other relatives, was sentenced to five years.
