You may still remember the news about the Bali murder case.
On May 1 this year, in Bali, Indonesia, a Chinese couple was killed at the InterContinental Hotel in Jimbaran.
According to reports, a hotel guest called the front desk shortly before 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. and said he heard someone calling for help in the corridor.
The hotel manager immediately took people to check and found the bodies of the couple. The scene was horrific.
The female guest was not breathing in the bathroom, while the male was lying on the corridor covered in blood. Both of them were naked.
After the incident, there were many speculations about the tragedy on the Internet, and the cause of the murder almost all pointed to the male victim’s identity as a currency industry practitioner.
So, why is this tragedy being linked to the currency circle?
Let’s first take a look at how this case happened.
According to news reports, the couple are from Guangxi and Jiangxi respectively. The male Li is 25 years old, and the female Cheng is only 22 years old. It is said that they are still college students in Nanchang, Jiangxi.
Photos of the murdered Chinese couple circulated online
Through the autopsy of the two deceased people, open wounds were found on the left and right sides of Li's body, about 11-12 centimeters in length. It was suspected that he had been scratched by violence. There were also cuts on his back and limbs, and there were cuts in his stomach. There is also a lot of liquid.
The screenshots are foreign media reports and translations of the case. The man eventually died of excessive bleeding.
There were a lot of bruises on Cheng's body and strangulation marks on his neck. It was suspected that he had been strangled directly.
However, savvy netizens analyzed the man’s “armpit blisters on his left chest” mentioned in the forensic report and analyzed that he might have suffered electric shocks before his death, pointing out that this was a common method used by professional killers when interrogating their victims.
While there were divergent opinions on the matter on the Internet, someone posted pictures posted by the deceased woman’s social account before her death, which showed her and her boyfriend (the deceased Li) entering and exiting a five-star hotel, accompanied by luxury cars and wine.
Originally, some people speculated whether the deceased Li was a domestic "rich second generation", but others discovered that he owned a Rolls-Royce with personalized license plates and many other luxury cars in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during his lifetime. The deceased woman’s previous location on Xiaohongshu and Instagram also showed that she was often in Cambodia.
Someone found the luxury car that her boyfriend posted in Cambodia from the female victim’s social account
Why does a young man have so many assets in Cambodia? Is it because the family's investment property is there?
Soon, omnipotent netizens discovered that Li belonged to the "currency circle" during his lifetime. He harvested a lot of "leeks" through manipulation and speculation. After making money, he fled to Indonesia.
This is interesting. A murder case far away in Indonesia was actually linked to the legendary "currency circle", and was once again linked to Cambodia.
If you still remember, a murder under almost the same circumstances occurred in a hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia two years ago.
At that time, a cleaner at an apartment hotel in Phnom Penh came to work at the Chinese owner's house in the morning, only to find that the male owner had been strangled in the bathtub, and the female owner's face was wrapped with tape. Both of them were not breathing. The cleaner was so frightened that he quickly called the police.
An apartment in Phnom Penh where the incident occurred
After investigation, the Cambodian police announced that the night before the incident, the 38-year-old male deceased Xiao and his 23-year-old girlfriend Cao, who had just known each other for a few months, took the elevator home. As a result, they were pushed against each other with guns in the elevator. They entered the apartment and eventually both died in extremely horrific circumstances.
According to later information on the Internet, it was revealed that the deceased man was a former executive of a domestic Internet giant. He was responsible for channels and traffic distribution, that is, he had the decision-making power to decide which ads to place and where to direct the traffic.
He was indeed daring to cooperate privately with an overseas gambling group, illegally directing traffic to the other party's website, and fled abroad when he was under internal investigation.
Later, Xiao joined a local gambling group in Cambodia and became successful in the currency circle, making more money and hooking up with Cao, a deceased woman who was 15 years younger than him.
The Chinese couple was forced into the apartment at gunpoint and later killed.
As for the cause of death, it was largely related to his illegal activities in the currency circle, which resulted in his death.
Some people may be curious, is the currency circle really that profitable?
The so-called "currency circle" refers to the naturally formed circle of digital currency players. The ways to make money include currency speculation, mining, contract trading, etc.
Generally speaking, if you want to make money in the currency circle, you can only make money through the primary market or the secondary market.
The primary market is also called the primary market. Simply put, it is the stage where each currency is publicly and privately raised by the issuer to investors before it is listed on the exchange.
As long as digital tokens can be traded on the chain, this form of digital currency transaction that can be converted into free buying and selling is collectively called the secondary market.
The primary market and secondary market in the currency circle
The currency circle is the same as the stock and futures markets. Compared with the secondary market, participating in the primary market has greater opportunities to make money and more profits. If the project party or participants can successfully issue certain tokens, the rate of return can reach Hundreds or thousands of times, getting rich overnight is not a dream, it is far more exciting than the stock market.
However, compared to the stock and futures markets, the risk of investing in the currency circle is greater, because there is no suspension in the middle, and there is no limit trading for 24 hours. There are also risks of currency custody and trading.
Since the primary market is difficult to find, most people in the currency circle enter the secondary market, and naturally want to find resources in the primary market.
The development process of the currency circle from the primary market to the secondary market
As a result, some currency circle tycoons or organizations began to conduct "currency airdrops" in the form of private equity, which means that investors can obtain certain representative information about upcoming transactions in advance and use this to raise funds.
For investors, this process is often extremely risky.
They will either encounter a "break" during the transaction of the invested tokens, that is, the actual transaction price falls below the unit price of the issuance; or they will encounter scammers who set up a scheme and take the money and run away.
No matter what the situation is, the end result is a loss of money and calling the police is useless.
Because there are no legal trading platforms in any currency circle in China, all digital platforms that can be traded now are overseas, and Southeast Asia is the "hardest hit area."
Regulatory policies on digital currencies in some Southeast Asian countries
The reason is also very simple. Whether it is gambling or pyramid schemes, the corresponding supervision in these places is insufficient, let alone some currency transactions disguised as legal.
When investors encounter any risks, they can only admit that they are unlucky.
Therefore, in the myth of wealth creation in the currency circle, except for a few lucky ones, most people are actually "leeks" who have been cut off, and their money has long been taken away by traders in the primary market.
Precisely because the currency circle has the characteristics of secretive transactions and investors flocking to it, many overseas gambling gangs are very fond of it and have joined it as a money laundering and new profit-making project.
The currency circle has also become a new money laundering model for Southeast Asian gambling groups.
Therefore, many big names in the currency circle who are inextricably linked to gambling groups have made a lot of money through layout and trading.
It is said that the victim surnamed Li this time is an agent of the currency circle and gambling group. He was hunted down because he made money and ran away, which angered the group behind the scenes. Otherwise, he would not be so cautious to meet his girlfriend and would be vigilant in checking. Movement in the next room.
Of course, some people say that this case is not that complicated. It is simply because this person is relatively well-known in the currency circle that he was targeted by those in Southeast Asia who are "taking advantage of others."
Southeast Asia has always been a "paradise" for many cryptocurrency industry tycoons. Not only is the supervision of cryptocurrency transactions here lax and "work" convenient, but the key is that these places have mature tourism industries. As long as you have money, you can do whatever you want. What's there?
But the other side of the sunny beaches in Southeast Asian countries is the "dark side" that everyone knows.
It can be said that in the entire Southeast Asia, except for Singapore, most countries have varying degrees of "black industry" and "gray industry". For example, the Philippines not only relies on Filipino maids to earn foreign exchange, but is also the only country in Asia where online gambling is legal.
The Hong Kong tycoon Xie Mihua who was arrested before almost all his online gambling business spread to the country through the Philippines.
Another example is places such as Sihanoukville, Cambodia, which have long been notorious. Not only are there "pig killing plates" and drug trade, but also various human trafficking and human organ smuggling businesses are rampant.
It can be said that as long as it is a profitable business, there is nothing we dare not do here.
There is also Thailand. Not only does it have a well-known "sex tourism" industry, but the biggest transit point for many young people who were deceived and moved to casinos in northern Myanmar is Thailand. Some people were caught directly in Myanmar as soon as they arrived in Thailand. north.
Changes in the Corruption Perception Index and Rankings of Some Asian Countries Released by International Institutions
Some people may ask, there are so many illegal activities in Southeast Asia, is there no one there to take care of it?
Of course, the national level in these places does not allow it, but it cannot prevent grassroots officials from colluding with various criminal gangs, and internal and external corruption has grown beyond control.
So now there is an intriguing scene. Some big bosses in China who have made money through legitimate business prefer to immigrate to Singapore, while those who are engaged in "gray industry" like to work in other parts of Southeast Asia.
Although Southeast Asia is the "paradise on earth" for the big guys in the currency circle, sometimes they also "make money but lose their lives".
There are various gangs in Southeast Asia, and they usually make a living by "raking in the side". People in the currency circle have long been regarded as money-making targets because they can make money quickly and in large amounts.
In the past two years, news that a certain currency circle tycoon suddenly disappeared in Southeast Asia, and his body was finally found on a beach or in a remote corner, were basically related to local gangs, and the reason was naturally related to money.
However, there is one thing to say: Southeast Asia is not a "magic cave". As long as you don't show off your wealth intentionally or unintentionally, don't believe in the myth of "get rich overnight", let alone go to some inaccessible places alone, you will be basically safe. of.
As long as you don't show off your wealth too much and don't go to some inaccessible places, Southeast Asia is not that scary.
Back to the murder case of a Chinese couple, according to the latest information released by the Indonesian police, the specific investigation is still in progress, and the girl’s parents have also arrived in Indonesia.
Regardless of whether this case was a murder or a debt collection, it is a pity that the young and ignorant female college student was killed.
Perhaps when she started dating her boyfriend in the currency circle and accepted those expensive watches and bags, Zweig’s words came true:
"She was too young at that time, and she didn't know that all the gifts given by fate had already been marked in secret."