at most five or six cars a day. It comes down from the intersection of Xiaozhi Expressway (孝直高速路口) nearby, travels 10 kilometers northbound along National Highway 105, and goes straight to Zhujia Factory (朱家厂子) at the east end of Guoliugou Village (郭柳沟村). Tankers who come from other places to pull oil usually come at night or on Saturday and Sunday. Among the oil trucks, villagers saw cars in Nanjing, Jiangsu, Jining, Shandong and other places, while an edible oil factory in Tai'an (泰安) came in a few days. In the countryside, it was once said that the Zhu brothers could earn 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a day. Value-added tax scandal In the process of operation, a developed company must issue a special output value-added tax (VAT) invoice to the other party when selling oleic acid and stearic acid products produced because the purchased "swill oil" does not have a special input value-added tax invoice, so as to be able to deduct tax. Zhu Chuanqing asked Ma Yuwang (马玉旺), a self-employed edible oil operator, to help issue a special input value-added tax invoice. Ma Yuwang agreed, and in the absence of actual purchase and sale business between developed companies and 11 companies including Shandong Yuwang Industrial Co., Ltd., Shanghai Yihai Trading Co., Ltd., Qingdao Bohai Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., he signed a false contract with the other party in the name of the developed company, allowing the other party to issue special invoices for the value-added tax to the developed company, helping the developed company to obtain 53 special invoices for input value-added tax, with a total amount of 13,353,312.68 yuan and a total tax of 1,735,930.72 yuan. Arrest For selling illegal gutter oil and issuing a fake tax invoice, the following 10 people were arrested and eventually imprisoned: Zhu Chuanfeng, Zhu Chuanqing, Zhu Chuanbo, Du Hengqiang, Du Hengcai, Zhu Hongtao, Jiang Weidong, Zhu Chuanguo, Liu Xingshan, Liu Hengliang Sentence In January 2014, the Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Shandong sentenced Zhu Chuanfeng to death and Zhu Chuanqing and Zhu Chuanbo to life imprisonment. All their assets were confiscated as well. Seven others involved in the case were sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison and fined 500,000 and 2 million yuan each. The court held through a trial that Zhu Chuanfeng, Zhu Chuanqing, Zhu Chuanbo, Du Hengqiang, Du Hengcai, Zhu Hongtao, Jiang Weidong, Zhu Chuanguo, Liu Xingshan, and Liu