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Lai Changxing (Chinese: 赖昌星), born in September 1958, is the chief suspect in a multibillion-dollar smuggling operation that dates back to the 1990s in the southeastern city of Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province.

The notorious case has involved more than 50 billion yuan of smuggling and embroiled dozens of high-ranking government officials. And Lai Changxing is the man behind all this.

In the early 1990s, Lai, who was then a farmer in eastern China's Fujian Province illegally acquired Hong Kong residency through fake ID and set up Yuanhua Group, which later, became the center for his multi-billion-yuan dirty business.

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To build up his smuggling net, Lai used every trick in the book. In the mid-1990s, He rented a dock, built a large storehouse and bribed local customs officials to provide cover.

In just three years between 1996 and 1999, Lai and his corporation smuggled products worth 53 billion yuan into China and evaded taxes of more than 30 billion yu