Man Sends Cops To Crooked Wife Thinking She Was Fraud Victim

A woman is facing a GBP 1 million fraud trial after her unsuspecting husband reported her to police in China as a scam victim.

Picture shows police officers with the bank cards, in Chongqing, China, undated. A woman was caught when her husband thought that she was a victim of a scam. (AsiaWire)

Accused Ms Li has been seized by police in Sichuan Province after admitting to running a massive credit card swindle for seven years.

But she only came to the attention of police when her husband went to them for help because he was convinced she was a victim of fraud.

The horrified husband – not named in local media – found a stash of credit cards and hundreds of thousands of pounds passing through his wife’s accounts.

So he reported her case to police in December, believing that scammers were using her accounts to launder dodgy money.

He told them she had been conned out of CNY 8 million (GBP 959,156).

But within weeks, investigators found that Ms Li was running the fraud herself and arrested her.

Local media said that they would never have discovered the scam if her husband had not tipped them off.

Picture shows police officers with the bank cards, in Chongqing, China, undated. A woman was caught when her husband thought that she was a victim of a scam. (AsiaWire)

Police believe Ms Li swindled up to 30 family and friends by telling them she could earn them huge profits from investments.

Instead, according to local media, she simply stripped their credit cards and ran the cash through her own accounts.

Police say she created a fake identity as a civil servant and worked her way through more than 300 credit cards.

Most of the cash was blown on VIP travel, buying cars and splurging on luxury goods.

Li used some of the money to repay her victims a small amount of the bogus profits she’d promised them to stop them from becoming suspicious.

She admitted the scam to investigators and claimed she’d only done it because she owed more than CNY 200,000 (GBP 24,000) in loans and could not make ends meet.

Li was criminally detained – report local media – while the case remains under further investigation.