It’s actually very common for life imprisonment sentence (无期徒刑) to change to x number of years imprisonment (有期徒刑) for people who are well-connected.
Perhaps the most high profile case is Tian Wenhua, the CEO of Sanlu Group whose infant formula erupted into a major scandal in China and worldwide (due to timing with 2008 Beijing Olympics) that resulted in 300k cases of infant toxicities and 50k cases of hospitalization.
In 2009, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2011, due to good behavior, the sentence was changed to 19 years of imprisonment. In 2014, reduced sentence by 1 year and 9 months, and in 2016, another one and a half year of reduced sentence. At this rate, she will be released in 2027. (read the linked wiki above)
Corruption is extremely rampant in China, especially at the local level. Xi has been fighting corruption for the past 10 years and it just never ends. Like, literally never ends.
The system of reducing sentences like that seems like a fair thing with documented good behavior, but god damn 50k infant hospitalizations isn’t enough for them to just execute her?
Corruption is extremely rampant in China, especially at the local level. Xi has been fighting corruption for the past 10 years and it just never ends. Like, literally never ends.
" :smuglord: smh you silly tankies, Chyna is corrupt communist hellhole, those YouTubers were right!"
They should try to be more like America and just build corruption into the system and make it all legal, that way it isn’t corruption anymore, problem solved!
It’s just as rampant in the West, though I’m mostly struck by how the heck are there so much corruption in China as though the risk of getting caught under a decade long of anti-corruption campaign is still worth it. A few heads of major banks were just prosecuted for corruption a couple months back (amongst many others charged with corruption in recent years), but you can’t help but to wonder why would they keep doing it knowing full well that the government has been cracking down on corruption?
(Actually I have my own theory, it has a lot to do with the decentralized nature of governance where a lot of authorities have been ceded to local/municipal level).
It’s actually very common for life imprisonment sentence (无期徒刑) to change to x number of years imprisonment (有期徒刑) for people who are well-connected.
Perhaps the most high profile case is Tian Wenhua, the CEO of Sanlu Group whose infant formula erupted into a major scandal in China and worldwide (due to timing with 2008 Beijing Olympics) that resulted in 300k cases of infant toxicities and 50k cases of hospitalization.
In 2009, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2011, due to good behavior, the sentence was changed to 19 years of imprisonment. In 2014, reduced sentence by 1 year and 9 months, and in 2016, another one and a half year of reduced sentence. At this rate, she will be released in 2027. (read the linked wiki above)
Corruption is extremely rampant in China, especially at the local level. Xi has been fighting corruption for the past 10 years and it just never ends. Like, literally never ends.
The system of reducing sentences like that seems like a fair thing with documented good behavior, but god damn 50k infant hospitalizations isn’t enough for them to just execute her?
talk about a half measure
" :smuglord: smh you silly tankies, Chyna is corrupt communist hellhole, those YouTubers were right!"
They should try to be more like America and just build corruption into the system and make it all legal, that way it isn’t corruption anymore, problem solved!
It’s just as rampant in the West, though I’m mostly struck by how the heck are there so much corruption in China as though the risk of getting caught under a decade long of anti-corruption campaign is still worth it. A few heads of major banks were just prosecuted for corruption a couple months back (amongst many others charged with corruption in recent years), but you can’t help but to wonder why would they keep doing it knowing full well that the government has been cracking down on corruption?
(Actually I have my own theory, it has a lot to do with the decentralized nature of governance where a lot of authorities have been ceded to local/municipal level).