3 men jailed for making counterfeit press cards
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THREE men have been sentenced to prison terms for producing and using fake press cards.
A Shanghai court heard on Thursday that a man called You used the cards to trick local businesses into buying advertisements on a fake news website.
He was found guilty of making tens of thousands of yuan from the scheme and sentenced to three years and six months in prison.
The website is no longer available, but an earlier news report by xinmin.cn claimed it carried banner advertisements that cost between 500 yuan (US$80) and 2,000 yuan a month.
You’s accomplices, surnamed Wang and Chen, were found guilty of helping to produce the fake press cards and were each sentenced to three years in prison.
More than 20 fake cards were found in You’s office when it was raided by police in August.
You said he downloaded pictures from the website of the General Administration of Press and Publication and gave them to Wang and Chen to produce the cards.
Police were alerted to the scam when they arrested a man surnamed Zhang at a brothel who claimed to be an undercover reporter. On scrutiny of his credentials, officers deemed his press card a fake and Zhang led them to You.
Zhang was not involved in Thursday’s trial.
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