German Businessmen Are In Arrears With Wenzhou Shoe Makers?

Liu Qiang (left one) and other manufacturers representatives excitedly told reporters how the German businessman Hummel owed their money.

This reporter Su Shiri photo yesterday, Liu Qiang face gaunt appeared in front of reporters.

For two days, he has been in the new city police station, worried that the German businessman Hummel once again disappeared from him.

Yesterday, Hummel, suspected of being owed $270 thousand by Liu Qiang, a shoe maker in Wenzhou, was in Dongguan City Nancheng district police station.

Yesterday afternoon, the staff of the Consulate General of Germany in Guangzhou confirmed that the Hummel's personal safety was protected, and said it was not convenient to intervene in the economic disputes between the two sides.

Two people began to do business from the end of 2006. Liu Qiang, manager of C&G international footwear trading company, met German businessman Hummel in Dongguan in 2004.

At that time, Liu Qiang learned that Hummel and another German businessman, Fritz, were the owners of the oyee shoe design department Limited (hereinafter referred to as "oyee company"). The company has offices in Yijing mansion, Nancheng District, Dongguan, but the legal representative of oyee is not Hummel and Fritz two people, but a more than 60 year old Hongkong old lady Gu Ling Li, Gu Mou is the main financial officer of the company.

From the end of 2006 to 2007, Liu Qiang made more than 300 orders with Hummel and Fritz, with more than 10 thousand pairs of shoes and 12 pairs of small orders.

"The order of 12 pairs of shoes is the specification that brand shoes can enjoy."

Liu Qiang wronged to say that he kept the customer repeatedly but was still in arrears.

In the second half of 2007, Hummel and Fritz began to fail to pay the goods on time.

After being owed $270 thousand and $480 thousand by two people, Hummel and Fritz promised Liu Qiang that the payment would be settled before the Spring Festival of that year.

But Liu Qiang could not wait for the money after the Spring Festival.

In March this year, when the German business disappeared, after many communications with Hummel and Fritz, in March 7th this year, Hummel promised Liu Qiang to pay a long time of $270 thousand a week later.

Who knows, on the second day, Liu Qiang received news that Hummel had been walking in the afternoon of March 7th.

Liu Qiang, who arrived at Yijing building, found that the company had gone out of sight.

Liu Qiang also lost contact with Hummel and Fritz. Two German traders' mobile phones were shut down, and e-mails had not answered.

In desperation, Liu Qiang wanted to recover money by legal means.

However, Liu Qiang told reporters that the lawyers he consulted did not support him to fight the lawsuit because Hummel and Fritz two were not legal representatives of EU Ye company. Even if they won the lawsuit, Gu Mou, a legal representative, could not afford to pay for it.

Yesterday afternoon, the police of the new town police station said they could not prove that Hummel was the real owner of the company, so the dispute between Hummel and Liu Qiang could only be handled in civil disputes.

After nearly half a year of losing contact with Hummel and Fritz two, the day before yesterday, Liu Qiang's mobile phone message showed that Hummel's cell phone was restarted.

Because Liu Qiang made Hummel at the Hai Yue hotel in Houjie Town, he immediately rushed to the Hai Yue hotel to wait for Hummel.

At noon the day before yesterday, Liu Qiang and 4 vendors from Wenzhou found Hummel outside the hotel. Liu Qiang stopped Hummel on the spot and sent the alarm to 110.

In the evening, Hummel was sent to the new town police station in Nancheng, and Liu Qiang was waiting for the police station overnight.

Mr. Liu Qiang thought the product had quality problems. He told reporters that he and Hummel were paying through "post T/T30" payment, that is, the buyer would pay again 30 days after the arrival of the goods.

In the information provided by Liu Qiang, reporters saw that one of the handwritten copies of the fax sent by Hummel to Liu Qiang was the revised price made by Hummel.

Hummel believes that the products provided by Liu Qiang are of quality problems, so Hummel is unwilling to pay the price according to the agreed price after receiving the goods, but also gives the revised price, for example, 6.15 dollars is changed to 3.75 dollars, and 4 dollars is changed to 2.25 dollars.

Liu Qiang objection to the revised price. He thinks that the revised price has no accurate reference basis, but Hummel unilaterally made it, so Liu Qiang has not accepted the revised price.

Even more surprising to Liu Qiang is that, in addition to unilateral "price cuts", Hummel also imposed a "fine" on Liu Qiang in handwritten orders.

According to Liu Qiang's order, Hummel orders thousands of dollars for Liu Qiang in the "reduced price" order, which is often several times the amount of money.

Since then, the German Consulate General in Guangzhou and the staff of Dongguan foreign affairs and overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau have rushed to the new town police station.

After nearly two hours of waiting, consular staff, foreign affairs and overseas Chinese affairs staff, Hummel and Liu Qiang Quartet personnel finally sat together to talk about the 270 thousand dollar payment.

After talking for nearly 20 minutes, Liu Qiang walked out of the conference room angrily, because Hummel's statement was unacceptable to him.

Liu Qiang told reporters that Hummel claimed that he lost more than 270 thousand dollars due to the quality problems of the shoes and the reasons for not punctual delivery, so Liu Qiang actually owes tens of thousands of dollars to Hummel according to actual losses.

Liu Qiang, under the advice of the staff of the overseas affairs and Overseas Affairs Bureau, the consultative meeting of the Quartet personnel continued.

After nearly 40 minutes of communication, consular staff said the consulate would not interfere in the economic dispute between Hummel and Liu Qiang, but the consulate asked the new town police station to properly protect the safety of Hummel.

The staff of the overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau also expressed respect for the decision made by the German Consulate, and hoped that Liu Qiang would abide by the law and abide by the law and properly handle the economic disputes with Hummel.

By the end of last night, the economic disputes between Liu Qiang and Hummel have not been resolved.

At 8 o'clock last night, Hummel left the police station under the escort of the new city police station.