According to the information disclosed on the Judgment Documents Network, in August 2020, Li Yulin, the former Party Secretary of Huludao Bank, colluded with Li Xiaodong, the president of the bank, and shareholders Duan Moutao and Zhou Moulong to fabricate an asset management plan on the grounds of resolving non-performing assets, and embezzled up to 2.6 billion yuan of the bank's funds. The verdict shows that in September 2020, Zhou Moulong and Xiang Mou (handled in another case) and others agreed to illegally convert more than 1.8 billion yuan of the funds into foreign currency and transfer them to the account of a Hong Kong company controlled by Duan Moutao. From September to October 2020, Xiang Mou and Chen Mou and others purchased virtual currencies at a price higher than the market price in a virtual currency trading WeChat group. Afterwards, the virtual currencies obtained were sold overseas through overseas virtual currency buyers and converted into US dollars and remitted to Duan Moutao's Hong Kong company bank account.
The court held that Chen, in partnership with others, knowing that the funds of others were criminal proceeds from the bank, still helped them convert them into virtual currency and transfer them overseas. The circumstances were serious and his behavior constituted the crime of money laundering. However, he played a minor role in the joint crime and was an accomplice. In the end, the court sentenced Chen to 2 years and 3 months in prison for the crime of money laundering and imposed a fine of 2 million yuan. The illegal proceeds were recovered according to law. In this case, Li Yulin, the former party secretary of Huludao Bank, and Li Xiaodong, the president, participated in the matter. (Jiemian News)