Event Record
Lai Xiaomin Case
A major bribery case involving the head of a state-owned financial institution.
Contents
Event scope
This record focuses on the court's findings of large-scale bribery, embezzlement, and bigamy and on the interface between state financial resources and cadre authority.
Verifiable timeline
- Lai entered discipline and supervision investigation in 2018.
- A Tianjin court held a public trial in 2020.
- He was sentenced to death and executed in 2021.
Institutions and mechanisms
The case connected Party organization in a state financial firm, corporate governance, asset disposal, and discipline supervision.
Government response
The court published offenses, amounts, and sentencing reasons, and official accounts presented it as a financial-sector anti-corruption case.
Unresolved questions
The judgment establishes individual offenses but does not alone explain why authority and asset disposal remained highly concentrated. [1]
Sources
- First Instance Judgment in the Lai Xiaomin Casejudicial-record
- Regulations on the Work of CPC Discipline Inspection Commissionsprimary-record
- Regulations on CPC Inspection Workprimary-record
- NPC Standing Committee Decision Amending the Supervision Lawprimary-record
- Rules on Leading Cadres Reporting Personal Mattersprimary-record
- Zhou Yongkang Sentenced to Life Imprisonmentjudicial-record
- Final Appellate Ruling in the Bo Xilai Casejudicial-record
- Judicial Interpretation on Corruption and Bribery Casesjudicial-record