Create a wealthy persona and find people to pretend to be parents. A man defrauded nearly 2 million yuan in the name of marriage.

Our all-media reporter Zhang Peng Correspondent Zhang Pengfei Zhang Yesen

He carefully created a rich persona, and in order to marry the woman as soon as possible, he continued to defraud money, found someone to pretend to be his parents, and promised to add the woman's name to the wedding room book... In this way, the fake rich man defrauded nearly 2 million yuan in three years. The Zhangdian District Procuratorate of Zibo City, Shandong Province, through a comprehensive review of evidence, revealed the true face of the fake rich man Liu. Recently, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for fraud and fined 300,000 yuan.

In May 2022, Xiaomei and Liu met through an acquaintance and soon established a romantic relationship. During the relationship, Liu falsely claimed that he had 4 companies under his name and invested millions of yuan in projects, and created the image of a successful businessman who spent a lot of money. However, beneath the glamorous exterior, Liu was already burdened with huge debts. In order to ask for money from Xiaomei, he weaved a series of lies: his mother had a brain hemorrhage and needed treatment in urgent need of treatment, he hosted a banquet with the leaders to help Xiaomei enter the hospital to work, he purchased goods from the factory, hired industry experts, and workers needed compensation for injuries...

"You first go to the bank to get the loan, and I will pay it back to you immediately after the investment is repaid." Under Liu's repeated lobbying, Xiaomei was defrauded of more than 790,000 yuan in total in more than two years. The money was used by Liu to repay old debts and personal squandering.

In July 2023, while being passionately in love with Xiaomei, Liu met Xiaohua who lived in Zhangdian District, Zibo City through a matchmaking agency. Liu once again repeated the rich man's script: he owns 3 companies, holds 6 million yuan in assets, has a high-end residence in his name, and his cousin is in a high position in the army...

After dating for a period of time, Xiaohua's parents agreed to get married after meeting Liu's parents. In order to successfully obtain a marriage certificate and achieve the purpose of defrauding money, Liu found the father-in-law and mother-in-law of company employees and asked them to pretend to be his parents and meet Xiaohua's parents. At the meeting, the unsuspecting fake parents followed Liu's arrangement and promised to add Xiaohua's name to the wedding room book, dispelling the concerns of Xiaohua's family. On the day they met, Liu and Xiaohua completed their marriage registration.

After the marriage, Liu made up reasons such as corporate acquisition, factory relocation, and repayment of early investment debts, and persuaded Xiaohua to go to the bank to apply for a personal credit loan, and constantly asked Xiaohua for money. Xiaohua loaned 900,000 yuan from the bank to Liu three times, and lent him another 140,000 yuan of personal property. Not only that, Liu also borrowed 100,000 yuan from Xiaohua's uncle, Mr. Fang, on the grounds of corporate capital turnover. Most of the above-mentioned money was used by Liu to repay the debts he owed before marriage, and the remaining part was invested in his already loss-making business and was not used for the couple's life together.

After receiving the money, Liu's attitude gradually changed. After Xiaohua refused to continue to help him with loans, Liu filed for divorce many times. In January 2025, Liu lost contact. Xiaohua's family found Liu's hometown and met Liu's real parents. Only then did they realize that the parents' meeting was a performance from beginning to end. Xiaohua realized that he had been deceived and immediately reported the case to Zhangdian police. On May 16, 2025, the public security organ opened the case.

After the public security organ filed the case, Liu was summoned several times. During this period, Liu still maintained a romantic relationship with Xiaomei. Liu told Xiaomei: If the public security organ contacts her, do not mention the relationship between the two, just say that they are ordinary friends, and transfer money will be a loan. In order to cover up the crime, Liu also coaxed her to delete some of her chat records. Xiaomei has deep faith in Liu. In October 2025, Liu was criminally detained by the public security organ. Xiaomei came to her senses after meeting her parents who Liu said were "dead".

In February this year, the public security agency concluded its investigation and transferred the case to the Zhangdian District Procuratorate for review and prosecution. The prosecutor handling the case carefully reviewed the case files, sorted out the flow of funds, verified the facts and amounts of each fraud, and determined according to law that he had defrauded multiple victims of a total of more than 1.93 million yuan.

In May, the Zhangdian District Procuratorate launched a public prosecution in accordance with the law. Recently, the court made the above-mentioned judgment after comprehensively considering the circumstances of the crime, the performance of repentance and the return of stolen goods. Currently, the judgment has taken effect.