Ms. Pan, who lives in Yixing, is a virtual currency investment enthusiast. In October 2022, through a friend's introduction, Ms. Pan met a so-called blockchain "master" named Wang. Wang not only gave her and some virtual currency enthusiasts free lessons on blockchain professional knowledge, but also answered many of their investment questions.

During the chat, Wang recommended a newly opened virtual currency trading website to Ms. Pan, and said that the platform would give virtual currency to some users who participated in the early stage. The operation was very simple, and they only needed to bind their virtual currency wallet to the website.

This aroused Ms. Pan's interest, and she immediately bound her personal virtual currency wallet on the website under the guidance of Wang. However, at this time, all of Ms. Pan's virtual currencies were in the exchange, and she did not have much virtual currency in her personal wallet. The authorization was only to wait for the project party to issue benefits.

During the course, Wang told Ms. Pan about the world's second largest virtual currency exchange, which caused many investors to be unable to withdraw their virtual currencies from the exchange, and suggested that Ms. Pan keep the currency in her personal wallet for safety. Ms. Pan followed Wang's advice and transferred all of her more than 130,000 virtual currencies in three exchanges to her personal wallet.

However, within two days, Ms. Pan discovered that all the virtual currencies in her personal wallet had disappeared. After checking, she learned that the virtual currencies in her wallet had been transferred to the authorized wallet address, which was the wallet address that Wang had authorized before. Ms. Pan then reported the case to the Yixing Public Security Bureau. In January 2023, Wang was arrested by the Yixing police. In May 2023, the case was transferred to the procuratorate.

After reviewing the case files, the prosecutor found that in order to secretly obtain the rights to other people's virtual wallets, Wang and others conspired to create a website that appeared to be a blockchain project. By popularizing blockchain knowledge and other means, they took the opportunity to promote the website and tricked others into authorizing the binding of personal virtual currency wallets on the website. Wang used the website's authorization function to obtain the management rights of Ms. Pan's wallet. According to statistics, Wang transferred 130,000 virtual currencies from Ms. Pan's account to his own bank card, causing Ms. Pan to suffer economic losses of more than 900,000 yuan.

The prosecutor in charge, through detailed argumentation, analysis and judgment of the nature of the case and combined with the evidence of the case, believed that virtual currency has property attributes, and believed that Wang stole the victim's virtual currency by illegally obtaining the virtual currency wallet permissions of others for the purpose of illegal possession, and was suspected of multiple crimes such as theft, fraud, and illegal acquisition of computer information system data, and the amount was extremely huge. The procuratorate brought public prosecution against Wang for suspected theft in accordance with the law. After the trial, the court adopted the sentencing recommendation of the procuratorate and made a judgment in accordance with the law. Later, Wang appealed against the first-instance judgment. After trial, the Wuxi Intermediate People's Court ruled to dismiss the appeal and uphold the above judgment.

The transaction process and trading platform of virtual currency currently lack effective supervision, and there are certain security risks. The prosecutor reminds the public to pay attention to the security of the virtual currency market and trading platform, choose regular, legal and safe trading channels for investment and trading, and remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch. At the same time, we must strengthen our awareness of self-protection, not easily disclose personal information and passwords, and be especially vigilant against the use of virtual currency for theft, fraud, money laundering and other illegal activities. Once discovered, we must report to the police in a timely manner. #内容挖矿 #BTC