Chinese conmen hoping to capitalise on corrupt officials’ guilty consciences have been caught running an extortion operation after they posed as an anti-corruption unit complete with fake interrogation room.
The four men in Heilongjiang province spent Rmb200,000 ($31,000) to set up their scheme, complete with an interrogation room and seals of China’s graft-busting agency the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and a camera to record confessions, according to a report on Tencent’s news channel.
They join the ranks of creative China criminals including the fake general who wandered the country collecting bribes and the villager who built a fake bank branch that only took deposits.