Chinese police said they have dismantled a nationwide scam that tricked 93,000 people into investing capital to unfreeze assets taken overseas by the Nationalist government in 1949.
The latest reported scam in China used Tencent-owned messaging and social media platform WeChat and events to invite people to invest Rmb10 ($1.46) with a promise of as much as a Rmb50,000 return once the assets were unfrozen.
The Ministry of Public Security said it has arrested 44 people for their involvement in the scheme. The ministry said 405 people from 15 criminal gangs had been arrested since October last year for their involvement in the scam, which has brought in more than Rmb950m ($138.5m).
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