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After a lengthyextraditionbattle and diplomaticnegotiationsCanadianauthoritiesdeported him to China on July 22, 2011 upon promises that he would not be executed. He imported foreign products like cars, cigarettes and was responsible for one-sixth of the national oil imports at one time. Chinese police announced his arrest, and read him his rights, including hiring lawyers to defend him, at Beijing Capital International Airport.
The court deprived his political rights for life and confiscated all his personal assets.
About 20 containers of cigarettes pulled into shore every day and some 8,000 luxury cars entered China over three years and were even publicly put up for sale. He nearly starved to death due to the Great Chinese Famine, but his family survived because his father converted a swamp into a personal vegetable field during the most difficult years.
Canadian authorities, however, ruled that Lai should not be considered a refugee and upheld his deportation, paving the way for his return to China. It was here that he allegedly invited government officials to cavort with prostitutes.
In the early 1990s, Lai, who was then a farmer in eastern China's Fujian Province illegally acquired Hong Kong residency through fake ID and set up Yuanhua Group, which later, became the center for his multi-billion-yuan dirty business.
People describe him as being very good at making guanxi (approximately: personalized net-works of influence) and all kinds of connections.
Changxing Lai
昌星 赖
Businessman
Lai Changxing is a former Chinese businessman and entrepreneur.
He was the founder and Chairman of Yuanhua Group, based in the Special Economic Zone of Xiamen.
In just three years between 1996 and 1999, Lai and his corporation smuggled products worth 53 billion yuan into China and evaded taxes of more than 30 billion yuan.
The Chinese government was determined to bring the initiator to justice, but Lai managed to escape to Hong Kong together with his wife and three children and then to Canada.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
- Born
- Sep 15, 1958
Jinjiang, Fujian - Also known as
- Lōa Chhiong-seng
- Lài Chāngxīng
- The one who destroys lives
- The corrupted smuggler
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Lai Changxing
Lai Changxing (Chinese: 赖昌星), born in September 1958, is the chief suspect in a multibillion-dollar smuggling operation that dates back to the 1990s in the southeastern city of Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province.
He grew up in Shaocuo village. Lai found that paying his employees slightly more than the state made them work harder which in turn helped make him rich. Two years later, he returned to Xiamen, and launched Yuanhua Group, and started building his business empire there. He importedforeignproducts like cars, cigarettes and was responsible for one-sixth of the national oil imports at one time.
In the mid-1990s, He rented a dock, built a large storehouse and bribed local customs officials to provide cover.
The notorious case has involved more than 50 billion yuan of smuggling and embroiled dozens of high-ranking government officials. Lai started trading in imported goods in the 1980s, and as alleged by the investigative report from the government, he used his access to once hard-to-get luxuries to corrupt officials from government, police, and the military.