A relatively low level official can't take this much bribes. More like a scapegoat.
China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
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#22Corruption is the most significant threat China has left now that Western capitalism has surrendered.
Tariffs on all things Chinese is pretty much an open admission that the West can't compete.
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#23I don't really understand the mentality of people who do this sort of criminal activity. If he'd stopped after, say, $5m and just retired he'd probably have managed to get away with it. Continuing to such a ridiculous degree through sheer greed led him to a death sentence. That's just plain stupid.
In for a penny, in for a pound. Unless you are extremely crafty, you don’t get to retire from this sort of criminality. Everyone who enabled you wants more and you have a semi-permanent metaphorical sword hanging over your head.
Or you use your single digit millions of currency to buy an island and retire for a decade or two while everyone forgets you exist
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#24A relatively low level official can't take this much bribes. More like a scapegoat.
Over thirty years? I am surprised he didn't take more.
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#25A relatively low level official can't take this much bribes. More like a scapegoat.
Nah he took the bribes and probably paid 90% upward/laterally. Being the guy that actually takes the bribe is likely part of how he got promoted to where he is, in a way, like a soldier who gets promoted for being a calculated risk taker.
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That's a bit harsh. It's not like he took a $400 million jet.
Re: China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
#27I don't really understand the mentality of people who do this sort of criminal activity. If he'd stopped after, say, $5m and just retired he'd probably have managed to get away with it. Continuing to such a ridiculous degree through sheer greed led him to a death sentence. That's just plain stupid.
People get away with this all the time—you just only hear about the stupid ones.
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#28A relatively low level official can't take this much bribes. More like a scapegoat.
It's not outside the realm of possibility for the positions he occupied. But yes, corruption is selectively cracked down upon in China
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#29I sometimes see people "celebrate" this, with the rationale that China is cracking down on white-collar crimes and handing out sentences unheard of in the west. But, are these sort of things just examples of selective prosecution? Would the inner circle members of CCP leadership realistically face the same prosecution and sentencing, if they were to be caught doing the same?
At least they try to appear anti-corruption—that's certainly more than you can say about the west.
Re: China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
#30I sometimes see people "celebrate" this, with the rationale that China is cracking down on white-collar crimes and handing out sentences unheard of in the west. But, are these sort of things just examples of selective prosecution? Would the inner circle members of CCP leadership realistically face the same prosecution and sentencing, if they were to be caught doing the same?
Killing people in any context is barbaric because it is not possible to bring someone back from the dead.
I’m not a law expert but it seems pretty basic that there shouldn’t be irreversible punishment.
Also there should be equity which means everyone that does the same crime should face the same consequence, which doesn’t happen anywhere in the world as far as I can understand.
So harsher punishment means people with less power will get shafted harder