met free Chapter 125: The Tax Evader Hiding in Las Vegas
Chapter 125: The Tax Evader Hiding in Las Vegas
That day, Wei Jixiang received a call from Yang Zhiguang: "Jixiang, brother, I have something to ask you."
Now Yang Zhiguang and Wei Jixiang were familiar with each other, so there was no need to be vague. He just told Wei Jixiang directly that he wanted to ask for help.
Wei Jixiang: "Old Yang, just say it directly, we don't need to be polite"
Yang Zhiguang: "Okay, the country wants you to go to Las Vegas and bring someone back"
Wei Jixiang asked in surprise: "You asked me for this? Do you want me to lead people to destroy Las Vegas? This may lead to a world war."
Yang Zhiguang: "Jixiang, I heard that you once defeated the God of Gamblers. We want you to go because Las Vegas has spread the word that if you want to take away their guests, you have to defeat their top ten gambling kings."
Yang Zhiguang paused: "We went to the God of Gamblers, he said he had retired and recommended you"
Wei Jixiang also figured it out. It turned out that they were going to Las Vegas to challenge the top ten gambling kings. Since he had nothing to do now, he decided to go to Las Vegas to take a look. He had never been there before, so he said, "Lao Yang, send me the information. I will make arrangements and leave right away."
Lai Xiaoxing was born in 1958, the seventh of seven siblings. In the memory of fellow villagers, Lai Xiaoxing's family lived in three rooms out of 7 or rooms in the ancestral house, which was "very crowded". In Lai Xiaoxing's own impression, poverty has always been the childhood memory left by his hometown.
Like other rural children, Lai Xiaoxing started school very late, and did not enter the school gate until he was 9 years old. In his childhood, Lai Xiaoxing showed a different economic mind from his peers. His childhood playmate Lai Yongdu recalled that as early as in elementary school, Lai Xiaoxing sold fried dough sticks, buns, popsicles with him, and bought fruits from fruit farmers and sold them to passers-by on the roadside. Regarding Lai Xiaoxing's economic mind, his younger brother described him as "wanting to make money since childhood."
After graduating from primary school in 1973, he first farmed at home for a while, then followed his brother to the army to dig wells for more than a year, and then went to Quanzhou to dig air-raid shelters. After the project was completed, Lai Xiaoxing returned to Shaocuo and raised funds with five villagers to set up a small auto parts factory. Each person contributed a few hundred yuan, and several people served as both bosses and workers. In this way, he completed the first investment in his life.
After working in the auto parts factory for a year or two, he started a new business and opened a textile machinery factory. During this period, he met his future wife Zeng Na, who became Lai Xiaoxing's right-hand man in the future "business". The establishment of the textile machinery factory caught up with the development of the processing economy after the reform and opening up, which brought huge business opportunities to Lai Changxing's factory. After that, he successively opened a printing factory and an umbrella factory, and accumulated the first fortune in his life.
However, what really touched him was not the existing industry, but the huge profits from reselling electronic products. At that time, almost all customers from all over the country ran to the southern coastal cities with cash to find possible sources of goods. The prices increased several times in a short time. Lai Xiaoxing, who was considered "smart" since childhood, discovered that the profit margin of smuggling was huge in Shishi, the front line of smuggling.
After being convinced that he had found the best way to get rich, Lai Xiaoxing left Shishi for Xiamen with $400 million in assets, and soon moved to Hong Kong.
Subsequently, in June 1991, "Haihua International Limited" was registered in Hong Kong.
In early 1994, "Xiamen Haihua Group Co., Ltd." was established and began large-scale smuggling activities.
1995年6月，赖小星走私犯罪集团以1000万元租下厦门东方发展公司的一个保税仓库和一个保税油库后，仅1996年6月至1998年1月，就走私进口成品油7单18万多吨，汽车3588辆，案值达20多亿元。
In 1997, Lai Xiaoxing conspired with Chen Guanghui, general manager of Kaiyuan Foreign Trade Group Co., Ltd., and others to smuggle vegetable oil. Lai Xiaoxing was responsible for bribing customs officials to abandon supervision, and asked others to issue false VAT invoices on their behalf. The payment was exchanged through illegal channels and returned to the company's account for letter of credit payment verification. Kaiyuan Foreign Trade Group Co., Ltd. reported for inspection in the name of other companies such as Oriental Development Company. According to investigations, from 1996 to 1999, Lai Xiaoxing colluded with Kaiyuan Foreign Trade Group Co., Ltd. to smuggle more than 26.8 tons of imported vegetable oil alone, evading more than 12 billion yuan in taxes.
After 2000, China began to crack down on smuggling crimes on a large scale. Lai Xiaoxing was found to have engaged in international smuggling under his name, Xiamen Yuanhua Company, with the total amount of smuggled goods reaching more than 1000 billion yuan, and tax evasion exceeding 700 billion yuan. He has always lived a lavish and decadent life in China. The "Red Mansion" he built to bribe government officials and for his own entertainment later became a negative example to warn officials not to be corrupt.
After the incident, Lai Xiaoxing fled to the United States with $10 billion, and then found that as long as he had money, he could stay in Las Vegas for a long time. With $10 billion, he could hide here until he died.
The Chinese government sent several waves of people to Las Vegas, the United States, in an attempt to extradite Lai Xiaoxing back to the Chinese government, but they were obstructed by the United States and the Las Vegas casino. The United States Ministry of Foreign Affairs pushed all the responsibility onto the Las Vegas casino city.
In the bustling atmosphere of Las Vegas, people were spreading a piece of news excitedly. Lai Xiaoxing, the high-profile gambler, became the focus of everyone's attention. The casino made a bold statement, promising that whoever could defeat the top ten gamblers in Las Vegas would lose the protection of the casino and hand him over to the winner to take back to Dragon Country.
The casino was crowded with people, lights flashed on the card tables, and the dealers dealt cards expressionlessly. The gamblers stared at the cards in their hands, thinking about strategies in their minds. Lai Xiaoxing sat at one end of the gambling table, his eyes revealing arrogance and contempt.
The atmosphere was tense and intense, and every bet caused amazement and cheers from the onlookers. Lai Xiaoxing's opponents were sharpening their knives, trying their best to win money from him. The card game was like a battlefield, and every card was a critical decision.
As time went by, the gambling entered a white-hot stage. Lai Xiaoxing competed with his opponents without changing his expression. He had a lot of money, so losing this little was a drop in the bucket. However, his opponents were not so wealthy and tried their best to win every time.
When each card was revealed, there was a commotion at the gambling table, some gamblers won money, and some gamblers lost money and cursed.
These scenes are full of tension and drama, showing the cruelty and ruthlessness of the gambling city. The winners are triumphant, while the losers face the risk of losing everything. This is the world of the gambling city, full of temptations and challenges, in which only the strongest can survive.