Chapter 336: Impossible, Absolutely Impossible!

Inside the Law Firm, Wang Daoren put down the messenger bag in his hand and began to brew tea.

Last time, he had received another complaint because of that incident, and unsurprisingly, he was disciplined by the Lawyers Association again, but the reason for the discipline wasn't that he had done anything illegal in his practice; it was mainly an issue of attitude...

He had referred to himself as "your father" to the client; although there was a reason for it, the client had filed a complaint, so a disciplinary action was still a disciplinary action.

It just wouldn't result in a suspension of practice or anything; it was just an oral Admonishment.

One needs to pay attention here: many people get confused when they see a disciplinary action from the Lawyers Association, feeling that it doesn't seem quite right, as if it's different from the punishments they hear about in daily life.

Then you need to make a distinction here.

Generally speaking, the Lawyers Association is the "father" of lawyers, but this "father" is not the same kind of "father" as the Market Supervision Department, because it is under the jurisdiction of the Judicial Bureau.

Therefore, the real "father" is actually the Judicial Bureau!

Thus, the Lawyers Association has a set of disciplinary measures for lawyers within the industry association, such as Admonishment, Warning, Circular Criticism, Public Condemnation, Suspension of Membership, etc.

And what we often talk about, such as Suspension of Practice or Revocation of Practice Qualification, these are Administrative Penalties, which are issued by judicial organs.

For Wang Daoren, this incident was just a matter of being given an Admonishment by the Lawyers Association; after all, the other party had been a bit too excessive, to the point that in the end, even the local lawyers didn't want to take her case.

As for going to the construction site to shovel concrete... that's just talk; look at those internet celebrities who say every day they are depressed and want to quit the internet—how many of them actually do!

Unless they get caught...

At this moment, there were many people in the firm seeking consultation, all of them couples around fifty years old, some still wiping away tears.

And the person they were looking for was Lawyer Hu Rong, who was quite well-known in the firm for this area.

He and his team were said to be very experienced in transaction-type crimes like health supplement fraud, and had successfully provided Not Guilty Defense for many health supplement companies in Handong Province with a high success rate!

Therefore, as soon as Jingzhou's large-scale rectification operation had some results, the families of those arrested had already found their way here under the guidance of experts, finding this Lawyer Hu.

"Really, Lawyer Hu, we just feel that something must be wrong somewhere. Our Wang Rui, he's been a good child from childhood to adulthood, listening to his teachers at school; how could he commit a crime after working for less than a year!"

"Lawyer Hu, Lawyer Hu, our child, he had only been working for three months. Yes, he sold some things, but that was what the Company told him to sell, it wasn't like he wanted to sell them himself, and now he's been arrested. We don't understand! Please, save him; if he gets sentenced, his whole life will be ruined!"

Everyone began to plead; of course, the families of the Company's senior management were not here—they used other channels to contact legal teams, and some even hired famous big-name lawyers from Modu and the Imperial Capital.

But for the majority of people, Lawyer Hu's team was the best choice they could find right now.

Facing the anxious crowd, Lawyer Hu signaled for everyone not to shout, then said: "I can understand everyone's feelings. After all, many of them are young people who were just out working and suddenly got arrested; no one could take that."

"Everyone coming to find me must know that my team has conducted defenses for similar cases in Luzhou, Lincheng, and here in Jingzhou, and we succeeded every time. My experience is definitely not a problem."

"However, I need everyone's cooperation. Let's work hard together, and our goal is to have the case classified as Civil Fraud rather than Criminal Fraud. This is a very important point and the direction of our efforts."

"After all, it could have been resolved through civil law, but it was elevated to a Criminal Case, expanding the scope of Criminal Law's crackdown. This essentially violates the criminal policy of protecting private enterprises and will directly destroy the health supplement industry, so everyone, don't panic."

Most of the people coming to him were family members of the employees of those five companies. As for the Company's senior management... especially the chairman and general manager, to be honest, maybe they could avoid being convicted of Fraud, but there is still the False Advertising Crime waiting for you.

Using such methods to advertise, and with such huge profits, anyone knows this isn't normal. With so many charges in the Criminal Law, there is always one that fits you!

Hearing Lawyer Hu's words, the group's hearts settled a little. Someone next to them said: "Now we can only trust Lawyer Hu. Lawyer Hu has helped many people get acquitted before; I believe that this time, Lawyer Hu will definitely be able to get justice for us!"

"Yes, Lawyer Hu, help us get justice!"

Hu Rong didn't speak, just smiled. He had seen many such scenes, and he was very confident.

After all, "Transaction-type Fraud" like health supplement fraud is difficult to distinguish even for some professional Criminal Defense Lawyers.

He had handled many such cases and knew from experience that health supplement fraud is generally divided into two categories.

One category is pure fraud, which is the "Nothingness Fraud" type. This is fraud in the traditional sense, just using the name of health supplements. In a lawyer's words, that is "high criminal risk."

Of course, in plain language, it means: it's hopeless, just wait to die.

Usually, they rarely take such cases because... there really is nothing to defend, and it would damage their reputation.

The second category is the "Virtual-Real Combination Fraud" type. The health supplement company has legitimate qualifications, and the health supplements are also qualified, but there is fraud in the sales process. This is something that can be defended, and it is also a type of health supplement fraud that is quite controversial in the legal field.

Tiancheng Company is a legitimate health supplement company, and its products are also legitimate and qualified health supplements, so after understanding the relevant materials, Hu Rong felt very confident about this case!

Not to mention anything else, just take these sales staff—do they all have the intent for joint crime? Hu Rong felt that was definitely not the case.

Analyze specific cases specifically; at the very least, Hu Rong believed that the Public Security Bureau and the procuratorial organs could not possibly prove that all these sales staff were intentionally committing fraud.

Furthermore, the Company has legitimate qualifications, and the health supplements are also qualified, so this sales behavior is protected by law!

So even if the other party ate it, there would be no harm. Since there is no harm, where does the social harmfulness come from? Without social harmfulness, how could it constitute a crime?

What? You say they cheated money? This is legitimate sales; the products can be returned or exchanged!

In the past, Hu Rong had successfully defended cases using this line of reasoning.

If the Criminal Case is no problem, then the rest is simple: Civil Liability is the Company's business; what does it have to do with our employees?

What? The Company is insolvent and going bankrupt? Your money disappeared into thin air?

Then what does that have to do with our employees? Anyway, you have to go find the Company. Our wages haven't been paid yet; we also need Legal Aid. This is indeed flawless, the logic holds!

Summing it all up, Lawyer Hu felt the advantage was with him!

Not far away, Wang Daoren chuckled. Although he didn't know the situation, he felt a familiar aura.

Anyway, it is absolutely impossible for me to participate in such a thing; whoever wants to deal with it can deal with it...

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner. Among these two hundred-plus people, were there those who were unaware and could not have known? Of course there were.

Insufficient evidence means Presumption of Innocence; this is what the law stipulates. The law will not let a bad person go, but it will not wrong a good person either.

All Lawyer Fang could guarantee was Tiancheng Company; heaven knows why this time it would get so big...

Even though the Market Supervision Department was involved, the Company was going bankrupt, so he couldn't help it either.

After all, not all Legal Aid is as smooth as written in novels, where you can easily get the money executed; that's just a novel.

In reality, for those who have been defrauded, nine out of ten cannot get their money back; you can rest assured about that.

The health supplement industry in Jingzhou began to turn red across the board, and under such circumstances, Zhou Yi's video was finally released.

The "oxen and horses" at the Studio had been working overtime for several days; for no other reason than that there was simply too much material.

Some people were caught directly at so-called free medical consultation venues!

Impersonating a doctor to practice medicine—of course, it hadn't reached the standard of the Crime of Illegal Medical Practice, but being caught at this time, you have no way to cry injustice, because you aren't a doctor at all, yet you openly claimed to be an expert from a big hospital, gave people diagnoses, exaggerated their conditions, and then prescribed health supplements, saying these things were medicine and that they would be cured if they ate them.

You say you were unaware? It doesn't matter; you can be processed even with zero confessions!

For those caught in the act, one can basically start considering whether they will be treading the sewing machine or doing something else once they get inside; I hear that if you tread the sewing machine in there, your original sub-healthy body will improve, after all, the schedule is strict, with eight hours of labor a day... emmm.

After carefully reading the script sent by Pusa Xiong, Zhou Yi made some rough changes and then began to record the voiceover.

"Hello everyone, my dear audience lords, I am your old friend A Yi. Originally, I didn't plan to post this video, but it wasn't a while ago that I was surfing the internet on my alt account, and then I ran into a blogger!"

"It's this one."

Here, the video displayed the account of that "Health Expert Liu Heping."

"He posted a message saying that the country's regulation of the health supplement industry is too strict now. I said that even with such strictness, there are still so many crimes; if it weren't strict, how scary would it be? As a result, I was retorted."

"He said there are no health supplement crimes anymore, at most just some False Propaganda, and even asked me to provide evidence, saying I was spouting nonsense and asking what is wrong with young people today."

"I really couldn't provide evidence at the time, because he said media reports don't count—who knows if those reports are true or false—so I had no way to respond. I couldn't refute it, and it was so frustrating."

"Coincidentally, my neighbor upstairs, a very kind old lady, happened to start buying health supplements during this time, so I followed her on a trip. You tell me, isn't it a coincidence? That health supplement Company just happened to be committing fraud."

Here, the video displayed the chat history between Zhou Yi's alt account and that health expert.

Look, you saw it for yourselves; it's not that I, Zhou Mouren, wanted to stir up trouble on purpose, it's that he told me young people shouldn't be too arrogant and not to spout nonsense if I can't provide evidence.

Then I had to provide evidence, otherwise where would I, the "District Bully," put my face?

"So, I found Lawyer Fang, and it turned out Lawyer Fang was very interested, so we started collecting and securing evidence. Everyone look, this guy even claimed to be a cardiovascular expert at Ruiyin Hospital..."

"But Lawyer Fang and the chief director of the cardiovascular department at Ruiyin Hospital are old drinking buddies; one phone call and it was cleared up directly."

In the video, Zhou Yi didn't say anything about how the specific evidence was secured or what kind of evidence was needed; he only mentioned it briefly because the case is not yet in the Review and Prosecution stage, and some content cannot be spoken about yet.

"So, after a series of hardships, I got the evidence, and I immediately went to the Police Station to report the crime!"

"Now I'm here to notify you of some results. You can also check the official announcement through the 'Peaceful Jingzhou' account. We have cracked five health supplement companies suspected of fraud and have taken Criminal Compulsory Measures against two hundred and twenty-three criminal suspects!"

"I can only say, I actually didn't want to make such a big deal out of it, but there was no other way. You can't just not arrest them after discovering criminal facts, right? Look, the vice president of the company I reported said, 'Everyone does it this way, why only arrest us?'"

"Everyone wants to save face, so we definitely can't just arrest them. Just because there are many people doesn't mean they are right!"

Soon after finishing the video recording, Zhou Yi thought for a moment and wrote the title: Just for this bottle of vinegar, I specially wrapped a big dumpling!

The dumplings he, Zhou Mouren, wrapped with his own hands—although not "eat seven first, then boil seven"—one is enough to make him suffer the consequences.

Following the old rules, he sent it to Lao Yang for review. After the review, he told Zhou Yi that the part about the criminal facts in the middle still needed to be modified. Zhou Yi quickly finished the modifications and uploaded it directly.

Twenty minutes later, the video passed the review, and many of Zhou Yi's audience lords rushed into the video almost immediately.

"Routine urging for updates; even the donkeys on a production team wouldn't dare to rest this much!"

"Did you update? Why does it feel like you didn't?"

Only after urging for the update did they start watching the video, and as a result, they were shocked the moment they saw the title—this bullet is never going to stop flying, is it!

As a result, after watching the beginning of the video, many people almost reached a climax!

My god, is it this explosive? Just because of an argument with someone online, and the other party asked for evidence, he just gave the evidence like this?

Guan Yan in Lincheng was already covering her mouth, trying hard not to make a sound. She used to think Zhou Yi was a pervert, but after knowing the depth of the other party, she now realizes that she still doesn't understand him at all!

Regarding whether there is fraud in the health supplement industry, many people who have elderly family members are actually very clear about it.

For those people, they wish there were no health supplements in the country, but obviously, that is impossible; illegal things cannot be done.

You can't control the elderly; they buy you a pile of health supplements, and they are super expensive—who wouldn't feel exhausted looking at that?

In the Imperial Capital, the brother "Simulated Invincible" started clattering away on his keyboard.

"I've encountered that person before too, and thought he was just grandstanding. I also saw A Yi's alt account and thought at the time that this young man was really miserable, being retorted to the point of not being able to say a word. As a result, I didn't expect it to actually be A Yi's alt account, and he even did such a thing!"

After posting, the brother was still sighing; it was truly outrageous. This is equivalent to almost taking down an entire industry in a provincial capital city just to find evidence for you.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on him at all. If you are caught for illegal and criminal activities, are you going to blame the whistleblower?

This is not like snitching in school; every one of us citizens has the obligation to report illegal and criminal activities!

A crowd of people rushed directly into Zhalang, started frantically tagging that "Health Expert," and some started sending private messages.

And at this moment, in Modu, the health expert Liu Heping, who had just finished a health treatment at a foot massage parlor, saw these private messages. He clicked on one at random and was instantly stunned.

Such a thing actually happened?

Impossible, absolutely impossible, no one would be this perverted. No, I must go and watch that video!

Perhaps it was kidney deficiency, anyway, the health expert brother started breaking out in cold sweat on his forehead.

Here it comes, here it comes! Thanks to Brother Manbo, another newcomer brother, Brother Feimaowuyu, Brother wfei, Brother Yuyu, thanks to the brothers for the tips, thank you.

(End of this chapter)