2023-08-25 13:13:44
A doctor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in mainland China was tricked into working in a fraudulent park in northern Myanmar. He was forced to work 18 hours a day and was closely monitored. (Photo/Netease News)
A netizen in mainland China recently posted a post asking for help, claiming that his friend, a doctor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was tricked into working in a fraudulent park in northern Myanmar on August 16, 2022. He was forced to work 18 hours a day and was closely monitored. The doctor surnamed Zhang was later rescued by the Chinese police and the Thai police. Netizens commented that they would be defrauded by such a low-level criminal group following reading the doctor. “Is the doctor too simple or the liar too powerful?”
According to comprehensive land media reports, Zhang, who used to work in a botanical garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in mainland China, was introduced to Singapore to work as a translator in August last year, but he was tricked into Myanmar for fraud. His girlfriend said to the media: “He used to make losses in currency speculation, his family conditions were average, and his mother was paralyzed. I saw that the salary was very high on the Internet.” In order to increase his income, Zhang went to Myanmar to try a new job, chatting with others every day. Internet fraud, working up to 18 hours, sometimes being beaten and jailed.
In order to leave the fraud zone, Zhang asked his family to transfer 120,000 RMB to the fraud group as a ransom, but the family did not receive the release message following the transfer. After the news was exposed on the Chinese Internet, the Consular and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar stated that it had contacted the police in Shandong Province and the family members of the person involved, and notified the relevant information of the person concerned to the relevant government departments in Myanmar and Thailand, and urged the police in Myanmar and Thailand to carry out investigation and rescue work. . Recently, Zhang’s elder brother told the media that his younger brother has been rescued from Myanmar’s Myawaddy Park and will be sent back to China in the near future.
According to Lu media reports, Zhang has excellent grades since he was a child, and he was admitted to Jilin University with a scholarship all the way. After receiving a master’s and a doctorate from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he went to study in the Netherlands and did postdoctoral research in a botanical garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His older sister said that his younger brother once said that the salary of his current job is relatively low, and he would like to change jobs. Unexpectedly, the next news was to raise a ransom for him to save his life.
After news of Zhang’s rescue broke out, mainland netizens heatedly discussed it. Many Chinese netizens mightn’t help sighing that even a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences would be deceived. Another netizen left a message: “PhDs from the Chinese Academy of Sciences can be abducted. Are the liars too powerful or the Ph.D.s too naive?” Another netizen questioned that the mainland authorities have never paid attention to ordinary people being trapped. She said: “It seems that the country can take action, and it can To be rescued depends on whether your status is worth it.”
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