Yes. You heard it right. I am one of the first few batches that got my FIL coin back from China Hanshou police for the 3.28 incident (without any lawyers) and I am sharing my experience on getting back my FIL coins.
Disclaimer: Below are my personal claim experience without any involvement with lawyer. The process may changed over times and it may not be accurate. Please do your due diligence.
1. Submit your document first
Refer to stfilo website, you need to submit your documents to Hanshou police station.
The document should provide evidences or transactions on how you get your FIL coins (e.g. coinbase) and deposit to STFIL.
If you need assistance or translation on preparing the letters, you may contact me with some appreciation.
2. Wait for a call from Hanshou Police
For my case, I submitted my documents before July 2024. I did not received any call after that.
Around Dec 2024, I called in to Hanshou police station (number available in stfil website). An officer checked and acknowledged that they received my documents and is in good order.
Around Mid April 2024, I received a call to visit Hanshou police station to get my tokens back.
3. Plan your visit
Hanshou is in between Changde and ChangSha province. The popular and common one would be ChangSha.
The address is 湖南省汉寿县汉寿大道与天平西路交汇处
Plan your trip to ChangSha Airport and book a high speed train to Hanshou train station. The train is about 1 to 2 hours ride from ChangSha train station.
If you can only reach in the afternoon or evening, I would suggest that you stay a night in Hanshou. There is a big Wanda shopping mall with a lot of restaurants and Mac Donald’s. You can stay a hotel near the shopping mall.
As Hanshou is a small city, a taxi ride from the Wanda shopping mall to police station takes only about 10-20 mins.
The cyber unit department opened from 8am to 12pm and 230pm to 530pm on Weekdays. Please allocate about half a day to claim.
4. Actual day
Claimants would be asked to wait in a big meeting room at ground floor.
An officer (officer A) will provide a briefing on what will happened. He will asked if anyone came without receiving any call.
They will read the names from a list of claimants for that batch in order. It does not matter when you reach the station. If you happened to reach first but was placed last on the list, you will still be called last.
