The First Foreigner Registered In China To Conduct An Illegal Investigation And Prosecute

< p > defendant Peter William Humphrey (Peter William Humphrey), male, born in March 1956, British; Yu Ying Zeng (Yu Ying Zeng), female, born in August 1953, American, Humphrey's wife. In July 2013, two people were arrested by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau for criminal detention on suspicion of illegally obtaining personal information of citizens. They were also arrested in August of the same year. In January 2014, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau transferred the case to the first branch of Shanghai people's Procuratorate for examination, < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > indictment < /a >. < /p >
< p > according to law, in 2004, Humphrey and Yu Ying were incorporated in Shanghai to establish the company (Shanghai) Limited, which has recruited more than 10 employees to carry out the company's business. From April 2009 to July 2013, the two people received the so-called "investigation" by thousands of companies and a large number of citizens through the consultation of Shanghai Consulting Co., Ltd., accepting thousands of companies and a large number of citizens, and illegally obtained the information of citizens' household registration information, family members' background, real estate vehicle information, entry and exit records, telephone records, and business archives of enterprises, and hundreds of articles. Accordingly, the "investigation report" was sold to the entrusted clients at a high price, earning millions of yuan per year. These < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > information > /a > or they buy illegally at prices ranging from 800 to several thousand yuan, or are acquired by tracking, canting, posing, sneak into and so on. Its customers are mainly large multinational corporations in China, including manufacturing enterprises, financial institutions, law firms and other institutions, involving 16 countries, including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and Japan. Every time they launch a survey, they will randomly set up a code number, such as goose plan, Mahler plan, black thorn plan, etc. < /p >
Humphrey, Yu Ying, who handled the case, was aware of the illegality of illegally obtaining personal information of citizens. < p > Before 2013, the two citizens purchased personal information from Liu in Beijing. Later, Liu was investigated by the Beijing police for illegally providing personal information of citizens. When the two knew about this, they bought personal information from Shanghai to Tsai. < /p >
< p > Yu Ying has confessed that since 2004, its company has been commissioned by clients to do more than 700 surveys, and each survey charges tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan. The number of individuals who need to purchase respondents' personal information is about 30%. "In order not to let employees know about the trafficking of information personnel, they have English code names. From the point of view of business, these are all resources we do not allow employees to touch. < /p >
< p > < < a href= > //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp > > Shanghai > /a > a detention center. Humphrey and Yu Ying have been interviewed by reporters. Two per capita said that they had realized that their actions had seriously infringed upon the legitimate rights and interests of a large number of Chinese citizens and their families, and also seriously infringed upon the legitimate interests of some transnational corporations and Chinese enterprises and their personal privacy. Humphrey also took the initiative to apologize in Chinese and English in two languages: "I admit that our behavior was indeed illegal. (we) regret to violate the laws of China and apologize for the harm done by the Chinese government and others. < /p >
< p > Humphrey responded to the concerns of the Chinese company commissioned by GlaxoSmithKline to carry out the investigation. He told reporters that in April 2013, Ma Kerui, Mark Reilly, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, and Zhao Hongyan, director of the Ministry of justice, took the initiative to contact him and commissioned him to investigate alleged whistleblowers who were suspected of reporting commercial bribery in GlaxoSmithKline, and paid a deposit of 100 thousand yuan in advance. At that time, he did not disclose the contents of the report to Humphrey, and made sure that the reports were "virtual". Subsequently, Humphrey used the scorpion plan as a code name to launch a nearly two month investigation. When Humphrey completed the "investigation report" and submitted it to mark krui, GlaxoSmithKline Chinese company disclosed to Humphrey the so-called content of the report. According to more than 10 years of experience, Humphrey believes that most of these reports are valid. Shortly after that, Humphrey was shocked to learn that GlaxoSmithKline Chinese company was suspected of serious economic crimes by the Chinese police. He felt that he was deceived and used by Ma Kerui and others. He stressed that the findings of the "investigation report" show that the suspicion of GlaxoSmithKline Chinese company on the so-called whistleblower is groundless. In addition, Humphrey also admitted that he used illegal purchases and tracking, candid camera and other means in the process of completing the survey, so as to get more citizens' personal information such as household registration and so on. < /p >
< p > it is also known that during the custody period, Humphrey and Yu Ying had fully protected their legitimate rights and interests. Humphrey and Yu Ying Zengdou indicated that the police and doctors in the detention center were very cordial and very good to themselves. They had seen lawyers many times, and British and American embassies and consulates also sent consular visits regularly, and their original physical diseases were actively treated. Besides, they can keep correspondence with their sons. < /p >