At around 9 o'clock yesterday morning, a man asked the staff inside the counter of a branch of the Construction Bank in Zhifang Street, Jiangxia District to help him call the police quietly when he was withdrawing money. The staff of the bank quickly dialed 110 for help. Three minutes later, the policemen of Zhifang Police Station arrived at the bank branch and controlled two male pyramid selling members.
According to the man's introduction, his surname is Lu, 25 years old this year, as a technician in a certain mechanical and electrical equipment company in Tai'an, with a monthly salary of more than 4,000 yuan. In February this year, Xie, a former colleague who resigned from Lu's company, called him many times, claiming that he was doing mobile phone business in Wuhan, with a great development prospect, and incited Lu to join. Lu was persuaded, so he quit his job and came to Wuhan on February 23rd. At Wuchang Railway Station, Xie and another strange man took him to a secluded two-story civilian house in Jiangxia District. Lu's mobile phone was taken away by five other men in the room, and the door was locked. Lu realized that he had fallen into a pyramid selling organization.
Since then, Lu has been arranged to listen to brainwashing courses every day, with two or three men tracking him when he goes out. Lu knew that it would not work if he resisted forcibly, so yesterday he told the pyramid selling organization personnel that he was willing to join the organization. They let him pay the franchise fee, 2800 yuan per share. Lu said he would buy five shares, which required a total of 14,000 yuan, but he needed to withdraw money from the bank. At about 3 pm yesterday afternoon, the two men escorted Lu to the Construction Bank in Zhifang Street to withdraw money, and Lu quietly asked the counter staff to help him call the police.