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本帖最后由 bylife 于 2009-2-15 11:52 编辑
【原文标题】99-year-old on trial in China for cash scam
【登载媒体】澳大利亚人报 theaustralian.news.com.au
【来源地址】http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25025025-25837,00.html
【翻译】 bylife
【译文】
一家北京法院正在听取一件特殊的案件，世界上所谓最老的骗子，一名99岁高龄男子面临10年牢狱刑罚。
这个对周治平（音译）的上诉案件是关于他声称自己是李烈钧（音译），一名孙中山的政治追随者，(在20世纪初期，孙中山建立现代中国，他的继承者蒋介石作为国民党领袖)。李曾经被蒋介石任命为江西省长，位于中国南部，死于1946年。
上诉书陈述周先生企图在1949年毛泽东领导的共产党赢得国共内战之前的短暂时间内，冒名李，（李本人曾经利用他官方职务购买了大量的美国官方基金，并且把他们放到海外银行里。）
比周先生年纪稍小的帮凶，萧万倪（音译），50岁和王胜坤（音译），58岁分别面临不同的罪行。
法庭还听说他们说服一位美国公民，陈先生（他的名字被隐藏），周先生冒名李将会领到这些虽然早前已经被美国政府冻结，目前市值万亿美元的基金。基金的一部钱将会作为陈先生帮忙索取这批基金的回报
周先生告诉陈先生要收回这笔巨额基金所需的密码需要从美国中央银行获取附带必要序列码的备忘录。这需要大量数额资金购买的那个备忘录。
陈先生，74岁，物理和化学博士头衔的科学家，想把这笔秘密的国民党宝藏使用在他的研究之中。 2007年4月和去年6月，他支付周先生794，000人民币（澳元$171，000）用来购买所需的金钱。
周先生否认所有控诉，说：“我无罪，我将不会进监狱”。但是朝阳区人民法院法官说，他将面临至少10年的刑罚。
在北京周先生是最老的人出席庭审。
这个所谓骗术已经不新鲜了。很多类似的骗子曾编造自己有关国民党金钱传奇故事，甚至国民党自己在1949年大撤退时，把大量的财富运到台湾。
在这个国家，像这样的隐形宝藏故事具有很多的吸引力。
中国人习惯上把他们的财富秘密储存起来，以至于不被没收或被官方征税。
庭审还在继续。
【原文】
A BEIJING court is hearing the extraordinary case of the world's oldest alleged conman, a 99-year-old man who faces 10 years in jail.
The prosecution's case against Zhou Zhiping is that he claimed he was really Li Liejun, a political follower of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of modern China early in the 20th century, and then of his successor as leader of the Nationalist Party, Chiang Kai-shek.
Li was appointed by Chiang as governor of Jiangxi province in southern China, and died in 1946.
The prosecution said Mr Zhou pretended that shortly before the communists under Mao Zedong won the civil war against the Nationalistsin 1949, he - as Li - had used his official position to buy a massive amount of US government bonds, and had placed them in foreign banks.
Mr Zhou was said to have worked through younger accomplices, Xiao Wanni, 50, and Wang Shengkun, 58, who have each denied the charges.
The court heard that they convinced a US citizen, a Mr Chen - whose given name was withheld - that Mr Zhou, as Li, could retrieve these funds, now worth trillions of dollars, despite their being initially frozen by the US Government.
In return for Mr Chen's help in funding the retrieval process, they would split the money.
Mr Zhou allegedly told Mr Chen that the code that needed to be retrieved to release the vast store of bonds had to be obtained from certain US bank notes with successive serial numbers. This required the purchase of large amounts of notes.
Mr Chen, 74, a scientist with physics and chemistry doctorates,wanted to use the secret Nationalist treasure for his research. He gave Mr Zhou 794,000 yuan ($171,000) to buy the money Mr Zhou said he needed, between April 2007 and June last year.
Mr Zhou denied all charges, saying: "I'm not guilty. I won't be jailed."
But the judge at the Chaoyang District People's Court said he faced at least 10 years in prison.
Mr Zhou is the oldest person to have stood trial in Beijing.
The alleged scam is not new. Many similar frauds have been constructed around the myth of secret stores of old Nationalist money,even though the Nationalists themselves carried considerable wealth over to Taiwan, after retreating there in 1949.
Such stories of hidden treasure retain their lure in part because they are so common around the country.
Chinese people have traditionally hoarded their savings, rather than expose them to potential seizure or taxation by the state.
The trial continues.
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