Shocking scam in Beverly Hill, Tai Po! The con man "Li Weiye" pretended to be a philanthropist and disappeared with 400 million! Cheating Hong Kong stars out of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars?

Perfect game

A 7,000-square-foot mansion with sea views, eight servants and four bodyguards, and celebrities from the political and business circles attending banquets - this turned out to be the most absurd "fraud" in Hong Kong history! Lai Wai-ye, who claims to be a "billionaire philanthropist", used 140 shell companies and a wall full of fake titles to drain tens of millions of dollars from Sammo Hung, May Jiang, and Kay Tse and her husband. Some artists were even forced to sign confidentiality agreements! When a luxury home becomes a stage for a scam and even the biological mother is deceived, how does this carefully designed "rich reality show" cause collective dementia among Hong Kong's elites?

Uncovering the tricks of the fake rich

1. The political and business halos are all fake
   Member of the CPPCC of Hong Kong and Macao? Vice President of Lions Clubs International? Outstanding young Chinese people around the world? After investigation, it was found that Li Weiye's so-called "heavyweight titles" were all fictitious! What’s even more ridiculous is that even his marriage to his “wife” Tracy was not registered, and his “fraud tool” was a monthly rent of 500,000 yuan.Beverly Hills Villa, 138 out of 140 companies are ghost companies!
   
2. The Three Steps of Psychological Control

• "Home dinner tactics": "CEO private chef dinner" is held every week in a 7,000-square-foot mansion. Artists such as Chen Hao and Tang Limin personally testified that "he personally cooked dinner for more than a dozen people, and the bodyguards opened red wine like they were filming a movie"
• "Charity smokescreen": The "Beverly Hills Lions Club" was established and donated auction items lavishly, but it was revealed that the donations went to unknown destinations
• "Family kidnapping": deliberately brought his wife and children to attend the event, and his four-year-old son had a fever but still stood on the stage sick, to create a "perfect family" image

1. High interest bait hides a hidden danger
   Initial investors did receive a monthly interest of 8%, but the funds were actually "taking money from one pocket to pay another". After 70 victims invested 400 million, Li Weiye actually used science fiction rhetoric such as "quantum investment" and "virtual currency mining" to delay, and finally emptied the mansion overnight and even abandoned the sled dogs he raised! Big earthquake in the entertainment industry! List of victimized artists revealed

• Jiang Meiyi: She was defrauded of 18 million yuan and once publicly called Lai a "spiritual mentor"
• Hong Tianming: I mistakenly believed in the "film and television investment" project and lost 7 million in production costs
• Chong Simin: She was persuaded to mortgage her property and is now facing debt collection from the bank
• Selena Lee: Originally scheduled to collaborate on the second season of "Director's Kitchen", the 3 million deposit was lost

The most ironic thing is that Lai Wai-ye talked about "entrepreneurial responsibility" in "Big Boys Club" in 2020. The program crew confirmed that the bodyguards on that day were comparable to those of the Prime Minister, and they even brought their own Michelin chef team to the studio!

Scam Revelation: The Dark Psychology Behind the Illusion of the Rich

Crime expert analysis

Li Mingsen, a professor of criminal psychology, said: "This case perfectly exploits three major weaknesses of human nature - blind worship of authority titles, the temptation of wealth within reach, and the vanity of integrating into the upper class society."

What is even more alarming is that Lai Wai-ye is well versed in the "contrast creation method": he deliberately wore slippers while shopping in the market, and revealed that he was mistaken for a "wasted youth" by the owner of a pork stall. This "people-friendly rich man" persona has made his credibility soar by 300%!

Century Tracking: Where did the missing 400 million go?

The investigation found that Li Weiye had set up multiple shell companies in the Cayman Islands as early as 2020. After the funds were laundered through virtual currency, they were suspected to flow to casinos in Southeast Asia. What is horrifying is that the last post on his social account was a Bible verse: "All things are permissible, but not all things are beneficial."

The police revealed that they have tracked down the whereabouts of Li’s wife Tracy, but the victims have remained silent. An insider revealed: "Some artists were threatened to release their private photos, and they had no choice but to spend money to avoid the disaster."

When charity becomes a passport for fraud and luxury homes become backdrops for crime, this $400 million scam has torn open the most corrosive wounds in Hong Kong's upper class. We can't help but ask: Are the scammers too clever, or is our definition of "success" already terminally ill? Click to follow and reveal more unspeakable underground truths...

Beverly Hills Villa(English:The Beverly Hills)yesHongkongA super luxury house located inTai PoSam Mun TsaiSam Mun Tsai Road,Depend onHenderson Land Developmentdevelop. The project is divided into three phases, with a total floor area of 1.164 millionSquare feet, providing a total of 535 houses, of which Phases 1 and 2 have a total of 372 houses, and Phase 3 is calledThe Peninsula（Legend Royale) has 163 houses.

On October 14, 1997, Henderson Land Development purchased the land in the Shuen Wan temporary housing area in Tai Po for HK$5.6 billion and built the Beverly Hills Villas in Tai Po.