On April 24, 2024, Ms. Qian, the main culprit in the Blue Sky Green case, was charged with two counts of illegal possession of cryptocurrencies and was tried in a British court. On December 27, 2017, the Tianjin police filed an investigation into Blue Sky Green's suspected illegal absorption of public deposits. The victims of the case were spread across 31 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, nearly 130,000 investors were involved, and the funds involved reached 43 billion yuan. After the incident, Ms. Qian had fled abroad with the help of a fake passport and held a huge amount of Bitcoin abroad. In March 2014, Ms. Qian established Tianjin Blue Sky Green Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., which established dozens of branches across the country. With zero risk and high interest as bait, it launched a number of so-called "short-term investment and financial management" products, signed investment agreements with the public, and illegally absorbed public deposits and social funds. According to public documents, more than a dozen people were convicted in this case, such as: Li Qin, Liu Jun, Lu Yaping, Meng Guangxia, Ren Guomin, Wang Chunying, Wang Xiafei, Zheng Shaoduo, Zhang Ailan, etc. were all convicted of the crime of illegally absorbing public deposits. So, once Ms. Qian is extradited back to China, how will the court convict her? According to relevant judgments, one of the criminals in this case is not an employee of Tianjin Lantian Green, but a policeman named Zhang Lie who had investigated the case. This policeman once served as the leader of the "8.18" task force of the Public Security Bureau of Linghai City, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. After accepting bribes, he arranged bail pending trial for Lantian Green's general manager Wu Xiaolong in the name of the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Linghai City, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. He was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for the crime of accepting bribes. If Ms. Qian participated in the act of offering bribes, it may constitute the crime of offering bribes. This case involves illegal fund-raising, but there is no such crime as "illegal fund-raising" in my country's criminal law. The current crime of illegal fund-raising includes several specific criminal charges, and its specific scope includes the following seven specific charges:
1. Crime of illegally absorbing public deposits (Criminal Law Article 176);
2. The crime of fund-raising fraud (Article 192 of the Criminal Law);
3. Fraudulent issuance of stocks and bonds (Article 160 of the Criminal Law);
4. The crime of issuing stocks or bonds without authorization (Article 179 of the Criminal Law);
5. Organizing and leading pyramid selling activities (Criminal Law Article 224);
6. Illegal business operation (Article 225 of the Criminal Law);
7. Crime of establishing a financial institution without authorization (Criminal Law Article 174, Paragraph 1)