Zhou Lihong, a former financial expert of Taishin Bank, stole deposits worth 350 million yuan (Taiwan dollars, about 10.984 million US dollars below) from six VIP customers to compensate for the losses.investHe lost money, lived in a luxury house, drove a luxury car, and went to hotels to have fun. The Supreme Court sentenced him to 11 years and 6 months in prison for violating banking laws and breach of trust. Undistributed criminal proceedings resulted in the seizure of US$1.73 million and over 280 million Taiwan dollars. The whole matter was resolved.
Zhou Lihong has worked at Taishin Bank Zhonghe Branch since June 2003. He has successively served as Branch Business, Financial Management Specialist, Financial Advisor of Operations Division, Senior Financial Advisor and Customer Relationship Manager of Channel Operations Division etc. Long standing client with investment and financial advisory services. Plan and accept client’s instructions to purchase or redeem specific investments and financial products.
From 2008 to 2020, Zhou Lihong has been promoting financial products for a long time or personally assisting clients in investment. On the basis of business convenience, they required customers to print or sign blank withdrawal slips and transfer a sum of approximately one million yuan each. Time in other people’s accounts through online banking. Send it to your account. Because the bank had received reports from customers that nearly 10 million yuan were missing from their accounts, and found that none of the customer funds Zhou was responsible for had withdrawn himself, it had previously called for a “major incident”. Issued a warning and informed the financial supervisor. Commission to investigate.
According to the prosecutor’s investigation, six customers were victimized. He claimed that Zhou Lihong had no remorse, failed to compensate customers and the bank for losses, and actively quit his job. He requested the court to sentence him to more than 10 years. the prison. In the first instance, he was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for special breach of trust and forgery of documents under banking law. The proceeds of crime were confiscated after being returned to the victim. Zhou was sentenced to a harsher sentence in the second instance. The sentence was changed from 10 June to 12 April, and the amount of forfeiture was also increased. The verdict was quashed and sent back for a new trial.
During the first instance trial, Zhou Lihong changed his mind and admitted the “objective facts” of the case, but did not believe that the applicable banking law was a special breach of trust. The first instance review found that Zhou Quan, a bank employee, did not perform his duties honestly for the purpose of obtaining illegal benefits, abused customers’ trust to defraud money, ignored the law and Disrespected the property rights of others, and even more committed fraud. NT$295.85 million and US$1.73 million.
The first example was that Zhou Zaihigh CourtDuring the trial, he finally confessed to his main crime, paid the victim one interest after another, and returned part of the money to the victim, but failed to compensate Taishin Bank for its losses, and was sentenced to 11 years and 6 Sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. Months in jail. The Supreme Court believed that there were no errors in the verdict and that the sentence was appropriate, dismissed the appeal and delivered the full verdict. The matter was settled.
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