Lai Changxing is a native of Jinjiang, born in 1958, ranked seventh, with 4 older sisters, 2 older brothers, and 1 younger brother. Due to poverty, Lai did not start primary school until he was 10 years old, and three years later, he had to drop out of school due to financial pressure on his family.
Lai Changxing, a former school dropout, was unwilling to work as a farmer in his hometown and started his entrepreneurial journey. He has set up a stall, opened a restaurant, and set up a factory, and earned the first pot of gold in his life with his flexible mind.
In the early 90s of last century, he came to Hong Kong with connections and began to get involved in the chip smuggling industry. Four years later, he returned to Xiamen as a Hong Kong businessman and established the Yuanhua Group, which smuggled oil, automobiles and cigarettes on a large scale.
The important departments of the group are in charge of his family, and he is the chairman of the board, who controls the group and is responsible for developing relationships; The eldest brother was in charge of chores and later served as the chairman of the board; The second brother is responsible for cigarette smuggling; The younger brother is in charge of car smuggling; His wife is in charge of the group's finances, while her business in Hong Kong is managed by her younger brother.
Lai Changxing and his second brother Lai Changbiao are brothers and sisters, and the two have grown up together. After Lai Changxing achieved success in his career, he cared more about Lai Changbiao and summoned him from his hometown to Yuanhua Company to be in charge of cigarette smuggling.
From 1995 to 1999, Lai Changbiao handled more than 1.64 million cases of cigarettes, with sales of more than 15 billion yuan and tax evasion amounting to 8.8 billion yuan.
However, after Lai Changxing's case, his eldest brother and younger brother were sentenced in accordance with the law, but Lai Changbiao was not ** and was not held criminally responsible. Why is that? The reason is that a few months before the crime, Lai Changbiao had become a vegetative person.
Although his crimes were serious, he was exempt from justice because he could not appear in court.
Zhuang Rushun, deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department, and Li Jizhou, deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security, were his hardcore brothers, and the deputy secretary of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee and the two deputy mayors were also frequent visitors to the Red Mansion.
In this context, the Lai brothers usually dare not be provoked in Xiamen. However, who has the courage to brand Lai Changxing's second brother Lai Changbiao into a vegetative person?
What will be the end of him? Lai Changxing has accumulated a huge fortune through smuggling, and in the face of money, the Lai family and the Zeng family have constant conflicts due to the uneven distribution of spoils.
Among the board members at that time, the Lai brothers accounted for the majority, which made Zeng Mingna feel very dissatisfied. In addition, Lai's business in Hong Kong is gradually declining, and Zeng Mingna's younger brother, Zeng Mingyu, wants to return to Yuanhua in Xiamen to take up a post.
In the end, the sister and brother colluded inside and outside to squeeze Lai Changbiao out of his position. Since September 1998, Zeng Mingyu has replaced Lai Changbiao as an executive director of Yuanhua, responsible for the cigarette smuggling business.
Lai Changbiao, who once covered the sky with one hand, drank heavily and lingered in nightclubs every day because of the depression and depression in his heart. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1999, he took a group of entourages to a *** entertainment company in Xiamen, but he had a dispute with another gang because of a competition for a beautiful woman.
During the scuffle, he was accidentally injured in the head by a bodyguard and has since become a vegetative state. The next day, the bodyguard mysteriously disappeared, some speculated that he was killed by the Lai family, and others believed that he fled for fear of revenge.
Lai Changbiao's vegetative state allowed him to avoid the legal punishment he deserved. Seven years later, he died at the age of 51.