• Parzivus [any]
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    5 months ago

    Taking $151 million is insane to me. $5 million is easily enough to live comfortably on the interest for the rest of your life. That number is probably even lower with the cost of living in China. How the fuck do you not stop at some point and say "my boss was literally executed for what I'm doing right now, maybe I should chill"?

    • qwename@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Additional context to answer some of the questions here: His superior Lai Xiaomin:

      • investigated in April 2018
      • arrested in Nov 2018
      • prosecuted in Feb 2019
      • first court trial in Oct 2020
      • sentenced to death on Jan 5, 2021
      • appeal rejected, verdict maintained on Jan 21, 2021
      • executed on Jan 29, 2021
      • corruption activities were between 2008 and 2018

      As for Bai Tianhui:

      • arrested in Jan 2019
      • first court trial, sentenced to death, on May 28, 2024
      • corruption activities were between 2014 and 2018

      So the jig was up when Lai was investigated in 2018, Bai was already doomed from that point on.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Presumably he had already taken a huge amount of bribes prior to his boss getting got 3 years ago, so he probably figured "in for a penny, in for a pound" and kept going.

      • CarbonScored [any]
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        5 months ago

        Even more reason to quit while he was ahead, really. He was only increasing his chances of getting caught.