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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

  1. First Instance Judgment in the Lai Xiaomin Casejudicial-record
  2. Regulations on the Work of CPC Discipline Inspection Commissionsprimary-record
  3. Regulations on CPC Inspection Workprimary-record
  4. NPC Standing Committee Decision Amending the Supervision Lawprimary-record
  5. Rules on Leading Cadres Reporting Personal Mattersprimary-record
  6. Zhou Yongkang Sentenced to Life Imprisonmentjudicial-record
  7. Final Appellate Ruling in the Bo Xilai Casejudicial-record
  8. Judicial Interpretation on Corruption and Bribery Casesjudicial-record

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