Chapter 1169: Encountering International Commercial Fraud
"This is a very typical business fraud incident!" a legal expert judged next to him.
Fan Wubing rolled his eyes. He thought to himself that the situation is so obvious now. Do you have the ability to judge like this? You should emphasize it specifically?
However, it is obvious that after the experts reached the conclusion, everyone felt more at ease. Even if they wanted to settle accounts with the other party, they would have more confidence.
"We should keep these samples as evidence." The experts immediately made more pragmatic suggestions.
However, some people raised their concerns, "We are currently in a foreign country and are not very familiar with the laws here. If the other party makes any trouble, the situation will be very unfavorable to us!"
According to the suggestions of these people, we should first ensure our own safety issues and then turn around and sue them.
After all, this incident made the participants of Fan Investment Group very annoyed. Some people actually made their mistakes on themselves, which was simply unforgivable.
Fan Wubing thought about it and it was really annoying that the other party did this. They had known what they were from before, and there were also middlemen from Europe as introductions. They shouldn't play tricks, but these people were so jealous that they dared to make ground on Tai Sui's head. Is it tolerable?!
Their behavior has indeed constituted international business fraud.
The so-called commercial fraud refers to the act of misleading and deceiving units and individuals, defrauding money and various material interests during market transactions, investments and services, destroying the market economic order, and damaging the legitimate rights and interests of the people.
Commercial fraud is an unfair competition that violates the principle of honesty and trustworthiness, aims to make profits and deception as a means.
Legally speaking, commercial fraud is when one party deliberately informs the other party of false information, or deliberately conceals the true situation, and uses false information to lure the other party to make wrong judgments.
The causes of commercial fraud are diverse, including internal social reasons such as economy, politics, culture, education, morality, and law, as well as individual reasons for violators to be greedy for profit, as well as the lack of law enforcement resources and insufficient law enforcement capabilities, the lack of public knowledge and ability to prevent commercial fraud, and the awareness of resisting commercial fraud.
In any market economy, there is commercial fraud. The imperfect market economic system has led to some criminals who are profit-oriented and will inevitably take advantage of loopholes in the economic system to commit business fraud. This is the economic reason for the emergence of commercial fraud. With the gradual improvement of the market economic system, the loopholes in the economic system will be gradually compensated and repaired, and the space for commercial fraud will inevitably be greatly reduced, and most commercial fraudsters will inevitably have no choice.
Today's society is constantly moving forward, and the old laws are no longer competent in punishing commercial fraud. It is urgent to modify or even abolish these provisions involving commercial fraud and formulate new norms.
Commercial fraud itself is not static. It is also in a state of change. The rigidity and lag of the law have led to the inability to regulate some constantly renewed commercial frauds. The ambiguity of legal norms has led to the ambiguity of application, and it will inevitably lead to the difficulty in standardizing commercial fraud.
As for international trade, the conflict of legal norms between countries leads to applicability or at a loss. The intensity of punishment is insufficient, and it cannot fundamentally curb the desire for profit of those criminals who are proficient in calculations, because they firmly believe that the benefits obtained from violations are more cost-effective than the losses caused by punishment. The reasons for the legal system of some countries are also important reasons for commercial fraud.
The lack of moral and emotional emotions in honest business management is the inherent reason for the occurrence of business fraud.
A person who is bound by good moral norms can resist the temptation of interests even if the opportunity is in front of him. Those who lack integrity and moral emotions will go all out and try their best to find ways to bring illegal benefits to themselves.
For example, in Africa, the relatively chaotic and disorderly social environment provides space and opportunities for international commercial fraud, and will inevitably be used by these criminals. In addition, the fluke mentality of avoiding legal punishment is also an important reason that prompts some criminals to take risks to commit commercial fraud.
Another very important reason is law enforcement resources. The social security in Africa is very poor. Fighting is common. Killing and setting fires are regarded as casual. The police are basically a decoration. The army may have a little say. Under the premise of lack of law enforcement resources and low law enforcement capabilities, the allocation of human and material resources to combat commercial fraud is not enough to create conditions for effective combating commercial fraud. This will inevitably lead to some commercial fraud being unable to be punished due to the lack of law enforcement resources.
The lack of ability of law enforcement personnel to solve and handle commercial fraud will also lead to the inability to solve some cases with high intelligence and concealment in time, or may cause some difficult commercial fraud cases to be handled well.
Some law enforcement officers are not responsible for combating commercial fraud, which leads to poor supervision of commercial fraud. Some even accept bribes from commercial fraudsters, provide protection for commercial fraud, and use their power to give the green light for commercial fraud.
Even if Fan Wubing uses his feet to consider the problem, he knows what kind of environment it is. Although there are indeed very high-quality titanium iron mixed mines here that are worthy of large-scale investment, it is difficult to deal with if these problems cannot be settled. Even if he has not been deceived and the mine has been successfully built, various subsequent troubles will still exist.
What annoyed Fan Wubing the most this time was that his European partners actually introduced him to such a partner, which reminded him of Zaishu and Kuaishou. He was very suspicious of his European partners playing an extremely disgraceful role in this incident.
It’s like a person who wants to buy a laptop, especially when consumers who are not familiar with laptops, they usually have to find some knowledgeable people to go with them, such as friends, classmates, relatives, etc.
Here we should be careful not to meet bad people, not to doubt the character of friends, classmates, or relatives, but to be careful that they collude with the unscrupulous businessmen and become a child care provider.
The promiscuous merchants colluded with these child caregivers. The child caregivers were responsible for bringing consumers into the merchants and selling some models that were higher than other merchants. The promiscuous merchants encouraged them. Under the double act of child caregivers and merchants, consumers naturally couldn't resist it. They bought this laptop that was much higher than other places, and the higher money naturally entered the merchants and child caregivers' pockets.
This approach is very lethal for consumers who are not familiar with laptops. On one hand, they are cunning profiteers, and on the other hand, they are friends, classmates, and even relatives they trust. Naturally, they are confident in the models and prices they recommend, and they will never expect them to cheat themselves.
When consumers find that they have been cheated, they are angry at their friends, classmates and even relatives for helping the evil, but because they are their friends, classmates and even relatives, they can only bear the momentary anger and have no choice but to do anything about such business fraud. Undoubtedly, this trick of the profiteer is very despicable.
The way to deal with it is naturally the old saying, it is better to be self-reliant than to ask others. Only when you know what you are, you will not be deceived by others.
Therefore, when this phenomenon occurs, the most complaining thing is not the profiteering businessman, but the child care provider. Now Fan Wubing has a lot of resentment towards the two European partners, so he asked the other side to investigate carefully whether the other party had colluded with the mine owner in Africa and deliberately harmed himself?
It took about a day to get news from Europe. The two partners swear that they knew nothing about it and hated the practices in Africa. They thought this kind of business fraud was too shameful!
Immediately afterwards, Fan Wubing's men also understood the details of the people here. It turned out that although the person in charge here was French, the one who came up with this solution was a group of Jewish liars.
In fact, they chose Chinese people to participate in their projects, and behind them were their careful planning.
Although titanium is one of the most important military and strategic materials in the world, more than 80% of the world's titanium reserves are in China. There are a large number of titanium iron-associated ores in mainland China. Since there is no smelting and separation technology in China, titanium metal cannot be separated and extracted, so it cannot be used. These ores are generally smelted iron. The rest are discarded as slag.
So there is a story about Japan purchasing Panzhihua slag and claiming to be transported to Japan to pave the way. Although China does not have relevant refining technology, it also restricts the export of titanium slag. Therefore, only Chinese people in the world will remain indifferent when they see such titanium iron ore. At the same time, China's iron ore is in short supply, so only Chinese people will focus on iron ore.
In this carefully prepared planning, the final finished titanium will be sold to the United States. Because the United States can obtain the titanium resources it needs most, it will not interfere with the Chinese to obtain iron ore. This international balance is quite familiar, and the other party's abacus is really smart.
"So, we Chinese must not think that we are the smartest. Most foreigners are stupid. If you think so, you won't know how they die in the end. You must know that ordinary foreigners are stupid, but once they reach their top elite level, their smart business calculations are quite powerful. For us, there is still a lot to learn." After Fan Wubing thoroughly understood the other party's plans, he couldn't help but sigh at his entourage.
"It is said that Jews are born to do business, and this seems a bit credible." Lu Qingtong said.
Although the agreement between the two parties was not reached, Fan Wubing and the others were not deceived, and they felt much more relaxed.
Although overall, even if the current agreement is reached, Fan's Investment Group still has a lot of profit margin in the iron ore project, he always feels that as a Chinese, he must have the minimum integrity. Such an unfair agreement, even if you have money to make, you cannot be so cheap for foreigners. In the negotiations between China and foreign countries, there are too many Chinese people who leave when they see profits, and Chinese people always like to suppress their own prices for a little profit. In the end, they are fighting against snipes and clams, and foreigners benefit.
And there is another point that makes Fan Wubing and others feel very profound, that is, foreigners are not as honest and honest as some returnees who claim to be elites promote. They will strictly comply with the terms of the contract, and even the things that everyone agrees will be secretly changed back when printing. Such bad behavior is really not the most basic integrity and has no business ethics, which makes many people who have received honest education since childhood unable to imagine. This situation should also illustrate a person's essence, and cooperation with such people is extremely poor.
This reminds people of the time when Li Hongzhang signed a secret Sino-Russian agreement. The Russians invited Li Hongzhang to dinner before signing, and then asked the secretary to secretly change the documents. Nowadays, many people laughed at Li Hongzhang as a living person from a historical perspective, but no one condemned the Russians' dishonesty, which is very unfair.
The integrity and gentleness of foreigners are based on how much their interests are. These foreigners, Fan Investment Group, have also dated many times. The elegance and integrity actions at that time are indeed very touching, so this time they went to Africa to seek opportunities to develop together. However, this experience made everyone realize that behind their integrity, in the face of major interests, foreigners' tricks are much more powerful than Chinese.
The reason why they show integrity is that they are not facing great benefits. If we Chinese are rich enough, we will not argue over trivial matters. Just like when we look at remote farmers, they will think they are simple and cute, but if you live in the village, you will become a different person.
At the same time, the foreign environment leads to the actual social cost of dishonesty. For example, in court, the two have different opinions without other evidence. China's laws are insufficient. The plaintiff loses the case, and most of them are cheaper. However, abroad, you have to take out all your previous actions to consider who the jury believes. In this case, your usual dishonesty will have to pay a heavy price. Therefore, integrity requires a social environment, just like the south and the north. China has been in a state of integrity for thousands of years in history, from a country of integrity for thousands of years to the current lack of credit, which is also related to the social environment caused by China's political and legal system.
Chapter completed!