July. 2005

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The 2005 annual meeting of OALI will be held in Gearhart , Oregon from June 10 –11.

The 2005 super conference of CALI will be held in Reno , North Virginia from June 22 –24, 2005.

The 2005 annual meeting of Iowa Association of Private Investigators will be held in Des Moines , Iowa from July 28 –29, 2005.

On May 31, 2005, the president of Steele was invited to attend the forum with the topic of ‘’The Legal System of Harmonious Society’, which was organized by Beijing Municipal Law Association, meanwhile the president of Steele gave a lecture about information into the open and business credit in this forum.

The No. 36 of ‘The PKU Lawyer ‘ published by Peking University Law School reported the whole ceremony of Steele Scholarship & Steele Stipend.

Since June 6, 2005, the citizen can log on the website of Xuanwu District People’s Court of Beijing (http://xwfy.chinacourt.org) inquiring the judges about how to draft out the indictment for an litigation, moreover, the citizen can send the litigation material to the court by E-mail for the professional suggestions from the judges.

The System of Lawyer Reconcilement proposed by Chaoyang District Court of Beijing, has been formally implemented, which takes the lead in implementing it in China . The Reconcilement System means that the lawyer, who acts for civil cases, would be asked for the extracurial measure before the case is brought to trial.

Recently, the People’s Bank of China will cooperate with the Ministry of Education and nine universities from Beijing, Xian, Wuhan, and Shanghai holding a credit and financial related lecture for students by the topic of ‘treasure the credit record, enjoy the happy life’.

The Computer Center of Shandong Province cooperated with Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey to build the ‘Judicial Evidence Collection Lab of Cyber-network’, which is the first special laboratory in China to do the technology research of judicial evidence collection for cyber crime.  

For the moment, the biggest law cooperation project ‘China- EU Law and Judicial Cooperation Project’ will be finished this July after 5 years operation. 

On June 7, the biggest independent re-insurance agency -- Ben Field, for the first time moved its global directorate to Shanhai, and would like to build its subsidiary company here, thereby enters into Chinese market formally.

‘The Registration Administration Measures of Health Food’ will be put in practice on July 1, 2005. At that time, some special words will not allowed to be used, such as ‘high quality’, ‘the first or the second generation product’, and so on.

Insurance Fraud

Diving for money

There was a guy from Florida who was facing a problem relating to divorce from his wife and pay alimony for his children. Therefore, he bought a life insurance for one million dollars, and beneficiary was his girlfriend. Then, he went to diving, and pretending death by drowning. The soccer staffs didn’t find out his body even though they had searched in wide scope area. However, the telephone record of his girlfriend caused the investigators to doubt. According to investigation. The guys dived to another bank, and threw away his dive equipments on the beach, and then he took the bus to his girlfriend’s home in Wisconsin . Finally, the guy was arrested in his girlfriend’s home.

Most major internet sites and financial institutions have been targeted including PayPal, eBay, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and America Online (AOL). These scams usually show up in your email inbox with a message from the "System Administrator" telling you to perform some urgent maintenance on your account. If you ever get message like this be very, very, careful.

(eBay and Yahoo Auctions) - Auction fraud was the second most reported consumer fraud complaint to the FTC, totaling 51,000 auction complaints in 2002. The fraud is simple - put up a fake ad on eBay, let someone "win" the bid and send in their money, but never send out the merchandise.

The FTC has warned that some companies that claim to be identity theft prevention services are scam artists trying to get your driver’s license number, mother’s maiden name, Social Security number and credit and bank account numbers. Don't ever give out any personal information over the phone or online unless you are familiar with the business that is asking for it. If you are unsure about a firm, check it out with the Better Business Bureau.      Source: US Federal Trade Commission

this is a kind of the crime of financial fraud. It is defined that the act of cheating a certain amount of insurance compensation is conducted by the policy holder or the insurant or the beneficiary, whom may intentionally make up the insurance object, draw up untruthful reasons for the insurance matter and exaggerate the damage, weave a plot, or intentionally cause the death, injury or illness of the insurant.

committing an insurance fraud crime achieving a certain amount of money, the criminal will receive the imprisonment below 5 years, taking into custody, and the penal sum will be above RMB10000.00 but below RMB100000.00. If defrauded a big amount of money or had other serious circumstances of crime the criminal will receive the imprisonment above 5 years but below 10 years, and the penal sum will be above RMB20000.00 but below RMB200000.00. If defrauded a great amount of money or had other serious circumstances of crime the criminal will receive the imprisonment above 10 years, and the penal sum will be above RMB20000.00 but below RMB200000.00.

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