Buying and selling a ＂death certificate＂ can be done for more than 100 yuan？ What is this ＂ghost business＂
False death certificate
Screenshot of reporters chatting with merchants
Nowadays, handling business on behalf of the public is quite popular. Have you ever heard that a "death certificate" can also handle it? Recently, a reporter’s investigation found that you can get a death certificate without spending 200 yuan on the online platform. A merchant "intimate" said that if you need to go to court to increase your chips, you can also open a "notice of critical illness", which is more effective than a "death certificate". It is worth mentioning that during the investigation, the reporter noticed that the "death certificate" templates created by merchants are varied, and some even have incomplete basic identity information. Relevant legal persons reminded that if a merchant knows that the buyer regards it as perjury and sells it maliciously, it is suspected of violating the law.
shock
You can open a "death certificate" without going to 200 yuan.
Merchant: There are formal channels in the hospital.
On the morning of November 22nd, the reporter searched for the word "critically ill" on Taobao platform, and some agency businesses popped up, with the key words marked as providing sick leave and other services. When private messages are asked, merchants will often ask consultants to add their WeChat. The reporter tweeted and added WeChat of three merchants.
The first merchant said that he could issue a death certificate, the price of which was 130 yuan, and he only needed to tell his name, ID number, address and time of death. Another businessman said that he can issue death certificates from hospitals all over the country. "160 yuan from a regular top three hospital needs his name, ID number, time of death and why he died." The merchant said that he has formal channels in the hospital. The third merchant said that his death certificate was sold in 150 yuan, which was also true.
The reporter noticed that the templates of death certificates provided by the three merchants are different. Some only indicate the patient’s name, age, hospitalization number, cause of death and time of death, while others are very comprehensive, including identity number, actual age, specific place of death (hospital ward, emergency room, on the way to the hospital), the cause of death, and the highest diagnostic basis of the disease.
More shocked
You can also open a notice of critical illness
Merchants: You can increase your "chips" when defending your rights.
During the conversation, a merchant said that his own death certificate can be used to open a hospital or a police station, and the price of the death certificate of the police station is relatively high. Immediately, he said that it is necessary to know the purpose of the death certificate. If the death certificate is used for criminal disputes through legal channels, it will not be issued. "That risk is too great, and you are also dangerous. The death certificate of the hospital can be opened here." "
Later, the merchant said that if a person has not died and needs to go to court or defend his rights, he can issue a corresponding notice of critical illness to the hospital. "If you take it, you will raise your chips. If you really die, you will not pay so much, and the notice of critical illness will pay more." In response to the question raised by the reporter of the New Yellow River whether it is reliable and whether the hospital will verify it, the other party said that "people lying in bed are also critically ill. If you die, it is unrealistic. After all, people are not really dead. The critically ill notice is already very serious, and it will definitely increase the chips. I can also open an injury appraisal here, and I can give you a serious one. "
The reporter found in the China Judgment Document Network that some civil disputes really revolved around the falsification of injury identification, and some litigants complained that the injured did not touch some parts, but their injury identification documents showed different results.
Distinguish truth from falsehood
Medical practitioners: part of the proof is "fake at a glance"
Is the "fake death" certificate provided by the above-mentioned merchants reliable? The reporter consulted two staff members of the top three hospitals. The other party said that some death certificates did not even indicate the information such as the ID number of the deceased, which was a "one-look leave".
Speak the law
Lawyer:
Handling false death certificates
It is a crime
Search found that in recent years, there are not a few oolong mistakes caused by forging death certificates. In 2020, a man in Jiangsu was released on bail for defrauding 1.9 million yuan, in an attempt to evade the trial by giving himself a fake death certificate, cremation certificate and account cancellation certificate. In the end, the man was added to the crime of forging official documents and seals of state organs.
"Formal judicial authentication documents often come from judicial authentication centers and need to check their qualifications. Casual injury identification, death certificate, etc., if used for dispute handling, the court also needs to examine its authenticity. " Lawyer Yuan Qian of Shandong Zhengtang Law Firm said that such acts as men obtaining false death certificates to get rid of crimes are very bad in nature and have been criminal acts.
The reporter learned that according to the Criminal Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC), forging, altering, buying or selling or stealing, robbing or destroying official documents, certificates and seals of state organs are sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 10 years. Whoever forges the seal of a company, enterprise, institution or people’s organization shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights.
According to the new yellow river client
Spend 130 yuan to "fake death"
How can the platform be really blind?
Journalists can find these fake shops through keyword search and other methods. If the platform with more information and data is really managed, it is impossible to manage it.
Critical notice and death certificate are extremely serious medical documents, which are related to people’s life and death. However, such documents are actually sold on the Internet at will, and you only need to spend more than 100 yuan to provide your ID number, address and time of death, and you can choose the death certificates of hospitals all over the country. From the convenience of purchase and the low cost of counterfeiting, we can see how mature the "grey production chain" behind the proof has reached.
The fraud of critical notice and death certificate is obvious. In 2020, a man in Jiangsu was released on bail for defrauding 1.9 million yuan, in an attempt to evade the trial by giving himself a fake death certificate, cremation certificate and account cancellation certificate. In addition, news such as helping yourself to defend your rights by issuing a certificate, which is used to defraud insurance, also appears from time to time. It is conceivable that false proof of "grey property" not only undermines social integrity, but also inevitably encourages a large number of illegal and criminal acts, bringing unpredictable risks to society.
Similar to proving counterfeiting, both buyers and sellers have violated the law. Merchants who forge such certificates for a certain amount or times, or cause serious harmful consequences, will be suspected of forging, altering, buying and selling official documents, certificates and seals of state organs. The Law on Public Security Administration Punishment also has corresponding penalties for "buying, selling or using forged or altered official documents, certificates and supporting documents of state organs, people’s organizations, enterprises, institutions or other organizations". However, why is the underground chain behind this still rampant?
Among them, the indulgence of related platforms is probably a key factor. In fact, it is nothing new to falsify critically ill notices and death certificates. Over the years, there have been constant media reports. However, often, as soon as there is media intervention, the relevant platforms will pay attention to it. For example, last year, a man in Jiangsu bought a fake death certificate and tried to escape the trial, and the relevant online stores were cleaned up. It can wait until the news is over, and the daily management of the platform becomes lax, which proves that "gray production" will make a comeback.
Admittedly, the transaction of forged certificates has certain concealment. For example, according to the investigation of reporters, some shops are drained through the online platform, and then negotiate and trade through WeChat, which will indeed bring certain difficulties to the supervision of the platform. However, if you make full use of big data, it is not difficult to identify these illegal shops. Journalists can find these fake shops through keyword search and other methods. If the platform with more information and data is really managed, it is impossible to manage it.
Of course, for the supervision of similar forged certification transactions, we can’t just hope for the platform’s consciousness. As the relevant regulatory authorities, they also have the responsibility to supervise and compact the main responsibility of each platform. For the network platform that indulges and proves "gray production", it is not just self-examination and correction, but should be punished according to law. In this way, we can force the platform to "keep the soil responsible" and try our best to cut off the trading chain that proves "gray production".
Chengdu Business Daily-Special Commentator of Red Star News Yu Ping