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Chinese government. He has publicly declared in the past that if he returned to China: "many high government officials will not be able to sleep. Incidents will happen." In relation to the case, 14 people have already been executed,
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him. Such arrangements enabled his companies to receive illicit import licenses and to avoid billions of dollars in import taxes. Lai's level of corruption of officials was to such a degree that corrupted naval officers allegedly ordered naval ships to escort freighters carrying Lai's contraband.
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in 2000. Leung apparently secretly warned Lai about the immigration department's pending warrant for his arrest. Leung also suggested Lai move to Canada to escape arrest. However, the HK government later responded that the claim was totally baseless as the officer was already dead and could not
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Lai was believed to be the mastermind of a US$ 10 billion scheme, during which he allegedly bribed high level officials in the administration of the Xiamen
Special Economic Zone in order to smuggle luxury cars and entire tanker-loads of oil into the country. The smuggling ring fraudulently
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Yuanhua tower and the Yuanhua International Centre with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by 2000 guests. Each guest received a 3000-yuan
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granted Lai a work permit. Canadian officials acknowledged that Lai did not have access to the vast fortune they thought he had upon arrival in Canada back in 1999. Lai has said his legal and living expenses were being funded by friends, whom he has declined to identify, saying they could be in
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accounts, but she refused to give in. She was then beaten severely and sent to the hospital. The officials then started a tax fraud case. Lai would win in court, but his revenge campaign against
Communist officials would tie up his businesses. Lai left Shaocuo and from this point on.
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was offered 10 million yuan if she took her clothes off for Lai, who was drunk at the time. She purportedly did take off her clothes for the money, and disappeared from public view. She returned to state-run television after 3 years. Others include Li Jizhou
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Vancouver. His kids went to private schools at a cost of US$ 4,000 a year and his wife opened a bank account with a deposit of US$ 1.5 million. They were chauffeur-driven around in a US$ 90,000
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avoided US$ 3.6 billion in taxes and fees. Chinese authorities do not comment on allegations that Lai's
Yuanhua group was also a conduit for clandestine military shipments, such as
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