The owner of Xiaoyang Card Club was involved in fraud and left the country. Police estimated that the financial loss exceeded 80 million in more than 700 cases.

Some netizens witnessed the person in charge of "Xiaoyang Card Club" named Zheng leaving the country. (Picture taken from threads)

The "Little Sheep Card Club" in Ximending, Taipei City, suddenly closed down a few months ago, causing shock in the card game industry. The owner surnamed Zheng was accused of fleeing the country with the money. Since the victims were scattered across Taiwan, after the incident was exposed, people went to local police stations to report the case, and the case was transferred to the Wanhua Branch of the North City Police for summary. For more than a month after the case was exposed, the police have counted the number of victims and related financial losses one by one. It is estimated that there are more than 700 cases and financial losses of more than 80 million. The police have recently completed the statistics and sent a letter to the prosecutor.

The police pointed out that in the early morning of August 3 this year, the official IG, Facebook and LINE groups of "Little Yang Card Club" disappeared without warning. The physical store on Chengdu Road in Taipei City was also deserted. The person in charge surnamed Zheng was even accused of absconding out of the country. After the news was exposed, it caused shock in the card industry. Later, many victims came forward to accuse and report to the police.

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It is understood that after the incident was exposed, the victims were scattered all over Taiwan. They successively reported to police stations in various places and provided relevant evidence of the murder. Since the case has been investigated by the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office, related cases from all over Taiwan were first transferred to the Wanhua branch for consolidation. Recently, the police completed the consolidation and sent a letter to the Beijing Prosecutor's Office.

It is reported that in order to clarify whether the person in charge named Zheng had other accomplices or behind-the-scenes groups, the police checked his communications and money flow in recent months, but found that they were "exceptionally clean" and had no particularly eye-catching abnormalities. The police did not rule out that he had been planning for a long time, so in the months before the operation, they deliberately maintained "normal signs" of communication and cash flow in an attempt to cover the traces of other associates or accomplices.

In addition, Zheng quickly left the country after receiving a large amount of fraudulent money, but the money flow was normal. The police suspected that he moved the stolen money through underground exchanges, virtual currencies, etc., and he was most likely just a "chess piece" on the table. There should be a group division of labor and command behind the scenes, and they are fully investigating in depth.

The police do not rule out that some victims may not have reported the crime because their financial losses were not high, or because they were too troublesome. There may be a "black number" and the actual number of victims and the amount of financial losses may be higher.

The police said that Zheng’s method of committing the crime was to first claim that he had channels to obtain popular pre-order cards at low prices. Many people thought that he had cheap prices and had a physical store, so they paid to pre-order them. Others gave him high-priced cards for consignment and sent them abroad for appraisal. Unexpectedly, the pre-orderer could not get the card after paying, and the person who handed the card to him would probably lose everything.

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