Wuwei Liang
20 min readJul 18, 2023

【为区块链创业者敲响警钟 — — 创始人被带走后,家属和社区的快速预案】
[A wake-up call for blockchain entrepreneurs: A quick contingency plan for families and communities after the founder is taken away]

针对7月14日官方证实Multichain CEO Zhao Jun被昆明警方带走的事实,作为经历过突然在无报案人和受害者的前提下,被跨省来京的无锡警方带走全体中国国内区块链创业团队的CoinXP团队成员,我希望分享我们团队在CoinXP创始人CEO梁亮、陈华和王阳三位联合创始人被中国江苏省无锡市锡山区公安带走后,一直羁押于无锡市看守所至今两年多时间,我们所经历的一切,从而为Zhao Jun团队和投资者们敲响警钟。

In response to the official confirmation on July 14 that Multichain CEO Zhao Jun was taken away by the Kunming police, as a member of the CoinXP team, which was suddenly taken away by the Wuxi police from across the province to Beijing, without a complaint or victim, I would like to share with you everything we have gone through in the past two and a half years since our three co-founders, CEO Liang Liang, Chen Hua and Wang Yang, were taken away by the Wuxi police in the Xishan District of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. This is to sound the alarm for Zhao Jun’s team and investors.

仅基于我所经历的#无锡锡山区块链冤案的经验,作为区块链公链团队成员,写给中国区块链创业者CEO的家人、创业团队成员、社区成员和公链项目投资者们:

Only based on my experience of the [Xishan district, Wuxi city blockchain injustice case], as a member of the blockchain public chain team, I write to the family members of Chinese blockchain entrepreneurial CEOs, entrepreneurial team members, community members and public chain project investors :

1, 当公链的创始人突然被地方公安带走,并失联,你需要尽早找到正确的律师。然而,找到正确的律师需要有正确的认知,要知道中国刑事案件律师的对手是强大的公检法系统,对于律师的要求不仅是追求事实真相,为案件提供专业和公正的定性判断,更需要遇到司法不公时,敢于为当事人公开发声和辩护。可以说,95%的中国律师因害怕作为刑事律师所面临的自身风险,不敢为了自己的当事人而抗争,几乎仅仅随着司法程序走过场,因此,而错过了最佳营救机会。中国的律师有两种终极职业目标:【吊证】或者【赚钱】,95%都是为了赚钱,作为公司团队和家属,在这个时候需要找到那些为了真理和事实真相,不怕吊证的律师。

1, When the founder of the public chain is suddenly taken away by the local police and loses contact, as the CEO’s family or colleague, you need to find the right lawyer as soon as possible. However, finding the right lawyer requires a correct understanding of Current Judicial Status in China. We must know that the opponent of Chinese criminal case lawyers is the powerful public security system. Lawyers are not only required to pursue the truth, provide professional and fair characterizations for cases, but also to dare to speak out and defend the parties when they encounter judicial injustice. Lawyers in China have two ultimate career goals: [to be suspended] or [to make money]. It can be said that 95% of Chinese lawyers are for the sake of money and afraid of the risks they face as criminal lawyers, and dare not fight for their clients. They almost just follow the judicial process through the motions, and thus miss the best rescue opportunity. As a company team and family, at this time, you need to find lawyers who are not afraid of being suspended for the sake of truth and facts.

2, 律师第一时间去会见当事人,辅导当事人决不能将掌管的秘钥交出去,也不要将服务器关停。只要公安看到钱,拿到钱,他们就会横下一条心,将案件扣上罪名,将资产罚没掉。失去了秘钥,就失去了一切,将会人财两空,含冤入狱。

CoinXP第一时间求助的律师是【关系】导向的【勾兑型】律师,这在中国比比皆是,而在中国生活久的当事人家属们也非常相信【关系】可以救人。殊不知,凡是打着【关系】为旗号的律师都是走在法律的边缘,而他们背后的【关系】也仅仅用于忽悠当事人家属,在中国近几年的【教育整顿】下,没有人会因为【走关系】而干预一个经济刑事案件。【勾兑型】律师会劝说当事人和家属就范,关闭服务器、交出秘钥、配合认罪,就会从轻,殊不知这样就让违法逐利办案变得轻而易举,将当事人“合法地”推向监狱的大门,同时“合法地”拿走属于用户、投资人和创始团队的数字资产。

据说,办理江苏盐城案的公安局局长,在被查之后,有网上知情者曝出他的手上还有没有卖掉的比特币高达上亿,而办理CoinXP和其链上去中心化交易所HUBDex案件的无锡市公安局局长,正是来自江苏省盐城,是办理区块链、数字货币案件的利益受益者。

2. The lawyer should meet with the client as soon as possible, and coach the client to never hand over the keys, nor to shut down the server. As long as the police see the money and get the money, they will make up their minds, charge the case with crimes, and confiscate the assets. If you lose the secret key, you will lose everything, you will lose your life and wealth, and you will be imprisoned wrongly.

The lawyer CoinXP first sought help from was a ‘relationship-oriented’ and ‘blending type’ lawyer, which are commonplace in China. Family members of the parties involved who have lived in China for a long time also strongly believe that ‘relationships’ can save people. Little do they know that lawyers who wave the banner of ‘relationships’ are walking on the edge of the law, and the ‘relationships’ they have are only used to deceive the families of the parties involved. Under China’s recent ‘educational rectification’, no one will intervene in an economic criminal case due to ‘pulling strings’. ‘Blending type’ lawyers would persuade the parties and their families to comply, shut down servers, hand over keys, and cooperate in pleading guilty, claiming that this will result in leniency. Little do they know that this makes it easy for law enforcement to profit from unlawful conduct, ‘legally’ pushing the parties towards prison, and at the same time ‘legally’ taking away the digital assets that belong to the users, investors, and founding team.
It is said that the director of the Public Security Bureau handling the Yancheng case in Jiangsu, after being investigated, was revealed by online insiders to still have a huge amount of unsold bitcoins worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The director of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau, who handled the CoinXP and its on-chain decentralized exchange HUBDex case, comes from Yancheng, Jiangsu, and is a beneficiary of cases involving blockchain and digital currency.”

3, 团队法律教育、公众监督和控告工作。此时的团队联合创始人、团队成员、用户投资人们应公开监督和质疑警方的立案理由,是否存在报案人、损失者?如果不存在,他们将人带走的理由是什么?需要以《信息公开申请》的书面文件发给公安局及其监管部门。

3. Legal education for the team, public supervision. The team, co-founders, investors, community members, and users should publicly supervise and question the police’s reason for filing a case. Are there any complainants or victims? If not, what is their reason for taking people away? An “Information Disclosure Application” written document needs to be sent to the Public Security Bureau and its regulatory department.

4,律师在仔细查证证据和事实之后,为案件定性,如纯无罪,需要公开为当事人做无罪辩护。

4, After carefully verifying the evidence and facts, the lawyer will determine the nature of the case. If the case is purely innocent, it is necessary to publicly defend the client’s innocence in advance.

5,不要天真的以为你的项目没有上下级层级,公安就不会扣罪传销,CoinXP公链上的Hubdex交易所,没有利益层级和上家吃下家的事实,照样换来换去罪名,最终还是指控的传销罪。这是因为传销罪名是唯一可以罚没所有资产的罪名。趋利执法的项目本意就是冲着钱来的。

5. Do not naively believe that if your project does not have hierarchical levels, the police will not label it as a pyramid scheme. Hubdex, the exchange on CoinXP’s public chain, despite having no profit levels or cases of uplines profiting from downlines, still had its charges swapped around, and was ultimately accused of running a pyramid scheme. This is because a pyramid scheme is the only charge that allows for the confiscation of all assets. Profit-driven law enforcement projects are fundamentally after money.

6,所有被警方带走的同事、家属、投资人将会被公安做口供,大家都应尊重事实为基础,如遇到【逼供、诱供】的情形,应遵守诚实的底线。这样保护了自己,也保护了团队和投资人。
CoinXP的中国团队,包括创始人的家属,在抓捕时一同被警方带走24小时后释放。但由于公安会使用吓唬、诱导等问询手段,有很大概率会导致团队的其他成员和当事人家属、成员家属因被公安诱导和吓唬后有被诱导和偏离事实的叙述。CoinXP和Hubdex在华团队成员和社区成员在被江苏无锡锡山公安询问后,都表示能感受到警方希望通过【口供】收集证据,甚至只根据【口供】立案。无锡锡山公安在没有立案具体罪名的情况下,诱导大家指证CoinXP CEO梁亮诈骗、传销等犯罪方向,甚至有些被问询的项目成员和投资人,在被释放前也会被迫签署承诺不向公众媒体透露案件办理细节等。然而,这些承诺和签署文件的合法性,需要律师团队进行评估,防范公安的违法违规操作。根据我们的经验,证人是有权利讲出真相,告知检察院等监察、监督机关,公安办理案件时的违法违规操作。

6. All colleagues, family members, and investors taken away by the police will be given confessions by the police. Everyone should respect the facts as the basis. In case of [extorted confessions, induced confessions], they should abide by the bottom line of honesty. This protects itself, as well as the team and investors.
The Chinese team of CoinXP, including the family members of the founder, was taken away by the police and released after 24 hours when they were arrested. However, because the police will use intimidation, inducement and other means of inquiry, other members of the team, the families of the parties, and the family members of the members have experienced narratives that deviate from the facts after being induced and intimidated by the police. Community members and investors who have been questioned by the police can all feel that the police hope to collect evidence through [confessions], and induce crimes such as fraud and pyramid schemes without filing specific charges. Every project member and investor who is questioned will also be forced to Signed a commitment not to disclose the details of the case to the public media. However, the legality of these commitments and signed documents requires a team of lawyers to evaluate to prevent illegal operations by the police. According to our experience, witnesses have the right to tell the truth and inform the procuratorate and other supervisory and supervisory organs, and the police of illegal operations when handling cases.

【以下为目前此案件的公开披露信息】
[The following is the public disclosure information of the current case]

2023年7月14日下午4:22,Multichain(https://multichain.org)官推发布长推证实Multichain创始人CEO赵军被中国警方带走的事实,内容具体如下:

At 4:22 pm on July 14, 2023, the Multichain (https://multichain.org) official tweet released a long tweet confirming the fact that the founder and CEO of Multichain, Zhao Jun, was taken away by the Chinese police,

1、2023年5月21日,Multichain首席执行官赵军被中国警方从家中带走,并与全球Multichain团队失去联系。团队联系了MPC节点运营商,得知他们对MPC节点服务器的操作访问密钥已被撤销。此外,这些MPC节点服务器和其他普通服务器一样,实际上是在赵军的个人云服务器账户下运行的。团队没有任何成员能够访问赵军的个人云服务器账户,因此无法登录这些MPC服务器。

2、随后,团队与赵军的家人取得联系,并了解到赵军的所有电脑、手机、硬件钱包和助记词都被当局没收。自项目开始以来,所有运营资金和投资来自投资者的资金都在赵军的控制之下。这也意味着团队的所有资金和对服务器的访问权限都在赵军和警方手中。

3、由于对案件缺乏信息,团队只能通过一些尚未被撤销的非MPC服务器上的剩余访问权限尽力维持项目运营。根据律师的建议,团队选择尽可能与赵军的家人合作,并遵守当地法律法规的要求,不向公众披露未经授权的案件信息。

4、5月30日,为了对社区负责,团队发布了关于赵军失踪的消息,并告知社区目前面临的技术问题。

5、6月4日,赵军的家人成功使用他家中电脑上的历史信息登录了云服务器平台。然而,赵军的家人只允许Multichain团队的工程师物理访问家用电脑以修复Router2和Router5的技术问题。

6、在此期间,赵军的家人和律师与警方进行了沟通。团队没有被告知案件的具体细节,但被通知赵军将很快被释放,并被要求继续维护系统并等待进一步的更新。

7、Multichain协议继续按设计运行。团队尽力以有限资源维持Multichain协议的运作,并尽可能解决用户问题。

8、7月7日,MPC地址上锁定的用户资产异常转移到了未知地址。根据赵军的姐姐提供的信息,在云服务器平台上发现了昆明的IP地址的登录信息,以及一系列从MPC地址转移资金的操作。

9、7月9日,赵军的姐姐将路由器池中剩余的用户资产转移,并随后通知了团队和几个项目方进行资产保全行动。这些资金被转移到由赵军的姐姐控制的EOA地址。 0x1eed63efba5f81d95bfe37d82c8e736b974f477b 0x6b6314f4f07c974600d872182dcde092c480e57b

10、7月13日,根据赵军的家人提供的信息,警方将赵军的姐姐拘留。现在,赵军的姐姐也失去了联系。她所保管的资产的状况不确定,因此团队认为有必要向社区通报所有已知情况。

11、由于缺乏其他信息来源和相应的运营资金,团队被迫停止运营。如果有任何进一步的通知和发展,团队将及时更新社区。

12、Multichain团队因无法访问域名账户以重定向或关闭前端,要求用户不要再使用Multichain服务。

【关于Multichain】

MultiChain是一种私有区块链平台,允许开发人员和企业建立和部署私有区块链网络。它提供了多种定制选项,使其可以更好地适应特定的业务需求或应用案例。

以下是MultiChain的一些关键特性:

私有性和权限管理:MultiChain支持私有区块链,这意味着你可以限制谁可以访问你的区块链网络。你也可以管理谁有权创建新的交易或区块,以及谁可以查看区块链中的信息。

资产和交易:你可以在MultiChain区块链上创建自己的数字资产(例如代币)。这些资产可以代表实体世界中的各种有形和无形的商品和服务。MultiChain还支持点对点的交易。

数据流:MultiChain的一个有趣的特性是数据流,它可以在区块链上嵌入数据,允许你创建一个不可变的数据记录系统。

智能过滤器:这些允许在区块链层面设置特定规则,如交易验证和数据流验证,提供更强大的业务逻辑实现。

快速和高效:MultiChain旨在提供更快的设置和更高效的交易处理,这是其相对于公共区块链平台(如比特币或以太坊)的优势。

总的来说,MultiChain是一个灵活的区块链平台,可以用于许多商业和技术应用,包括资产追踪、供应链管理、数据记录和验证,以及各种需要不可变记录和/或多方共享数据的应用。

从公开信息上可以查到Multichain是由Coin Sciences Ltd公司开发的,该公司是一家专注于区块链技术的私有软件公司。MultiChain的开发旨在帮助企业和开发者快速部署私有区块链。Coin Sciences Ltd的首席执行官是Gideon Greenspan,他也是多项区块链项目的创始人和首席架构师,包括CoinSpark和Coin Secrets。他还为许多知名出版物撰写过关于区块链和加密货币的文章。