If you were a criminal, how would you try to stash away your ill-gotten gains? Would you hide it under your mattress? Maybe you’ll open a secret security deposit box and keep the money there. For professional criminals, the rule of thumb is where there’s a will, there’s a way to hide even the most ridiculous sums of money.
But this one corrupt politician may just prove that whatever means you try, youĀ can’t outrun the law. In a story reported by The Daily Mail, an influential Chinese politician in the People’s Republic of China was allegedly caught with 13.5 tonnes (13,500kg) of solid gold bars stashed away!
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The incident reportedly happened in the Hainan province of Mainland China during a raid of embattled politician Zhang Qi’s home. While huge mansions and luxury cars are probably pretty predictable (and maybe a few Birkin handbags tooĀ ahem), what police did not expect to find was a literalĀ vault of gold bars on the property.
Source: the daily mail
Source: the daily mail
Source: the daily mail
And even then, they didn’t expect to find over 13.5Ā tonnes (13,500kg) of gold barsĀ on the property, with a market value of over Ā£520 million (RM2,687,048,000!) This is on top of the fact that the corrupt politician allegedly has over Ā£30 billion (RM155,014,701,750) in cash bribes in his account.Ā
Total that up and this politician allegedly has RM157,701,749,750 in assets and cash. Over one hundred billion Ringgit.
