The reason why Lai Changxing, as the main culprit in the extraordinarily large smuggling case of Yuanhua in Xiamen, has been able to run rampant in the southeast waters for several years is inseparable from the two "protective umbrellas" at the top level. Who are these two?
After Lai Changxing was arrested, they gradually surfaced ......
In 1958, Lai Changxing was born in Jinjiang, Fujian. He has a flexible mind since he was a child, and when he grew up, he took advantage of the spring breeze of reform and opening up and started a business. Clothing, umbrellas, automobile production spare parts ......Lai Changxing's business is getting bigger and bigger.
However, the insatiable Lai Changxing was not satisfied. He has set his sights on Hong Kong, the financial center.
In 1991, he smuggled himself to Hong Kong at any cost. In the bustling Hong Kong, Lai Changxing established Yuanhua International and opened up a new real estate business. Slowly, Lai Changxing's business empire grew bigger and bigger.
Lai Changxing gradually realized that there are huge dividends on both sides of the strait, and if he can avoid the customs and smuggle goods himself, he will get amazing profits.
Lai Changxing was a ruthless man who was bold and reckless, and after realizing the huge profit margin of smuggling activities, he tried every means to get rid of the customs and carry out smuggling.
Soon after, the scale of Lai Changxing's illegal smuggling activities became larger and larger. Although the amount of money earned has increased exponentially, Lai Changxing is well aware that the danger is also increasing by the day. If there is an accident in the smuggling activities, the consequences are unimaginable, and you will inevitably fall into a bottomless abyss.
If you want to keep your wealth from losing and even make more money, you must let "power" and "wealth" blend.
For this reason, Lai Changxing spared no expense, and he did not hesitate to befriend the magnates of Hong Kong and the mainland on weekdays.
At a birthday banquet, Lai Changxing gave a big red envelope of more than 100,000 yuan to each of the more than 200 guests present.
After offering his "sincerity" many times, Lai Changxing got acquainted with a group of dignitaries and dignitaries who had heads and faces in all walks of life. Among them, there are two hidden big shots.
One of them is that the deputy director of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Military Commission is from the "second generation of red", and his father is the former prime minister Ji Pengfei. In order to train his son, Ji Pengfei sent his son to the army to sharpen.
In 1988, he was promoted to major general. At the same time as the military rank was promoted, the position was also promoted, and the organization transferred him to the Intelligence Department under the General Staff as deputy chief.
Organizationally, it was originally due to the fact that *** has many years of military career and excellent intelligence confidentiality, but it is unthinkable that *** is actually a "moth".
After being promoted, ** not only failed to keep his mouth shut, but even colluded with foreign spies and bad businessmen such as Lai Changxing.
As the deputy minister of intelligence, it is outrageous to sell a large amount of China's confidential intelligence to foreign spy agencies as a commodity!
In the face of such a greedy person, Lai Changxing, who was intentionally stammering, had no choice but to "bleed heavily". He paid a total of tens of millions of yuan in bribes to ***, just hoping that *** could shelter him from the wind and rain.
Lai Changxing not only sent the money to the General Staff Headquarters of the Central Military Commission, but also extended his tentacles to the public security system. Li Jizhou, former vice minister of public security, was the target of Lai Changxing's bribes.
Li Jizhou, like ***, is also a "red second generation". Although Li Jizhou inherited his father's business and entered the public security front as a policeman, he was not loyal to the party and the people.
In 1989, Li Jizhou was promoted to director of the Public Security Bureau, in charge of the national public security department, with more than 400,000 people under his jurisdiction and great power. Therefore, Lai Changxing, who ventured into smuggling activities, took a fancy to him.
After Lai Changxing's sycophancy again and again, Li Jizhou soon fell under his "money offensive".
In 1995, Li Jizhou was promoted to vice minister of public security. As a minister, Li Jizhou's power is naturally not small, and in order to envelop this "backer", Lai Changxing has "honored" him.
However, even if there are two "protective umbrellas", it is difficult to escape the punishment of the law.
In 1999, Lai Changxing's smuggling activities were made public and became a major case that caused a sensation throughout the country. Although he himself fled to Canada, he was sentenced to death in 2011.
The two "protective umbrellas" also did not escape the fate of destruction. Li Jizhou was eventually sentenced to a suspended death sentence; ** He was also sentenced to a suspended death sentence, but because he had a good attitude in admitting his mistakes in prison and was riddled with illness, he was released on medical parole.