Name: China’s Most Corrupt Official Sentenced to Death | Lai Xiaomin and China Huarong
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It seems the Chinese Communist Party can't get enough of it.

What do you expect when your founding principle is “kill people and take their stuff”?

But the good thing about corruption is that since so many officials are corrupt, Chinese

leader Xi Jinping can use it as a charge to take down his political enemies.

And his so-called anti-corruption purge has helped him strengthen his grip on power.

Not even top Party members, like former Security Chief Zhou Yongkang.

In 2015, he was sentenced to life in prison for graft.

Of course, Zhou had done a lot more than just steal some money, but that's what they officially

And in 2018, the deputy mayor of Luliang, Zhang Zhongsheng, was convicted of accepting

And he was sentenced to “immediate death.”

Yes, in China, you can get the death penalty for economic crimes.

Zhang is still alive though, because his death sentence is waiting for confirmation from

And more recently, there was Lai Xiaomin.

He was board chairman and Party chief of the state-owned asset management company China

In early January, he was also sentenced to death for corruption.

Over the past ten years, Lai had accumulated nearly $280 million dollars in bribes.

“The scale of the crime is unprecedented.

Not in the 72 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China has anyone

been charged with taking bribes this large.”

Although to be fair, for most of that 72 years, the Communist Party had kept people way too

But it wasn't just money that was on Lai's plate.

Chinese Social Media had coined a nickname for Lai: “The 3 One Hundreds”.

One hundred Houses, one hundred connections, and one hundred lovers. 

This headline says it all: “He housed 100 lovers in one neighborhood, all of the kids

You'd think that putting 100 mistresses in the same area would cause problems, but

I guess when you have 100 mistresses, it's all about efficiency. 

And it makes sense how this guy got so many lovers.

Lai's connections with his company China Huarong would introduce him to women, and

the women would help Lai occupy his many real estate properties and hide his money.

“To avoid getting caught, Lai would accept bribes in cash, and personally stow them in

He would drive in circles to avoid any people tailing him.

He and his lovers would refer to this house using the codename 'Supermarket.'”

Wow, and I bet his wife thought he was being so thoughtful by offering to go to the supermarket

Because what Lai Xiaomin did was unimaginable.

Mainly because “He managed to have over 100 women - among them were past wives, current

wives, and all kinds of mistresses - live harmoniously with each other, without any

In its own horrible way, that's actually pretty impressive.

I mean, how did Lai even keep track of all these lovers?

Well, apparently Lai would number the women so it was easy to remember them.

Now you might wonder, what did Lai Xiaomin's wife think about all this?

Well, wrong question, because it's actually wives, plural.

The second one, he married illegally in Hong Kong.

One of the things he was sentenced for is bigamy.

In 2020, Lai was featured in a documentary produced by China's Central Commission for

Discipline Inspection, where he discusses his process of accepting bribes, along with

“I'd drop the money off in one of my houses, I called it 'The Supermarket'.

What was I supposed to do with all that dirty money?

He couldn't spend the money, because he would get caught.

But still people bribed him, and how could he refuse?

I think it's only fair that they should let him write a book before they execute him.

On the day of his arrest, Lai was about to go swimming with his 23-year-old secretary

when detectives showed up at his office. 

Lai Xiaomin was not your average corrupt official.

I mean, he was the Party secretary and chairman of one of China's four big state-owned asset

Under Xi Jinping's rule where death penalties are on the menu, I can almost understand why

all of his hundred lovers didn't have any disputes.

They weren't harmoniously living with each other, they were cooperating with each other.

Because if word got out, everything would fall apart.

Investigators started looking into his unusually large number of real estate investments in

And in November that year, they finally arrested him after they found 3 metric tons of cash

And that just goes to show: Crime really does pay.

And now it's time for me to answer a question from one of you, a fan who supports China

Uncensored through the crowdfunding website Patreon.

Scott Young asks: "In the credits it looks like you are visiting China.

How did you and Shelly avoid being taken into custody and sent off to a labor camp?

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