Farmers con 140,000 yuan from Germans

Police in Chongwen district have rounded up a gang of farmers that they say tricked a foreign company out of more than 140,000 yuan, Beijing News reported on Wednesday.

Most members of the group were farmers and came from a village that police say is rife with such scams, the report said.

Officers said the suspects in the latest alleged fraud swindled the money out of a German company that believed the alleged con artists were making an order for products worth almost 20 million euros (186 million yuan).