This is probably the deadliest case of China's emigrants-three years ago, late on May 2, 2015, when Yuan Gang, a 42-year-old Chinese tycoon, was brutally killed and brutally divided in his mansion.
The suspect was not an outsider, but Zhao Li, his cousin's brother-in-law, who lived with him in the mansion.
Victim Yuan Gang
Two years later, the trial began slowly. In May, Zhao said on court: "I felt like I was cutting a bear."
Now, the murder has not yet been decided, Zhao Li was involved in Yuan Gang's estate case to testify. Yuan's five girlfriends, with seven children, are poised to compete for his $16 million legacy. They have repeatedly appeared in court in recent weeks, revealing a host of details, including yuan's recent relationship with hundreds of girlfriends, 68 of whom he made a "roster" and left behind a large number of indecent videos.
Rich businessmen, mansions, dismemberment of, incest, 's girlfriend, illegitimate children. Three years later, Yuan Gang's story seems to have just begun. 1 the murder, because of the local repercussions of the murder, Yuan Gang's brother Yuan Qiang hired the lawer team, rare before the trial held a press conference to explain the situation.
The location of the crime, the West Wen mansion in Yuan Gang.
Family grudges
According to Yuan Qiang at the press conference, this is a typical story of revenge.
The Zhao Li family had emigrated to Vancouver very early, but it had been a bad place to live. Just after emigrating in 2007, the family began to help them generously and even let their families live in their own mansions, thinking of a caring relationship between their relatives. Did not expect to ascend Mein fight for revenge, finally they become more and more greedy, unexpectedly seek money to kill. Yuan Qiang's lawer Johnson (Chris S. Johnson) also said at the press conference that he believed the murder case involved money.
Interior view of luxury house
The mansion at George King Georges Way), was reportedly bought by Yuan for C $6 million in 2001, with three-story five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, swimming pools and other luxury facilities. The house was registered under Zhao Li, the Li Xiaomei couple, who helped to take care of Yuan's just-to-live diet in Canada. In addition to living in their family of three, the house also has two Chinese employees and babysitters and so on.
Although Yuan just hundreds of millions of assets, generous, but in Canada, huge expenses. The home-sitter's salary is about 20,000 yuan a month. Yuan's Rolls-Royce and Bentley luxury cars are expensive for fuel consumption and maintenance. Coupled with the Zhao Li family's expenses, the salary of the two employees, and the occasional hospitality of relatives and friends in China, Yuan just lived on at least two hundred thousand yuan a month in Vancouver.
Suspect Zhao Li
And (State Agricultural Development), an agricultural company that has just emigrated to Canada, manages about 7520 acres of land in Saskatchewan. Yuan Gang handed over the company to Zhao Li, until his poor management, and Alberta partners in dispute, the other party claimed C $ six hundred thousand to recover management rights. But the court just still took care of Zhao Li, living in luxury homes, living expenses, but also entrusted to their family to help handle some financial affairs. In 2013, even lent Zhao Li 2 million Canadian dollars in stock speculation, the result Zhao Li lost 1.8 million.
According to Yuan Qiang's lawer Johnson, the contradiction between Yuan Gang and Zhao Li, conflict, is still from the farm in Sahasa province. The Canadian farm made a lot of money because of Zhao's mismanagement and Yuan just decided to sell the farm in early 2015. A pre-crime contract had been drawn up and the deal was due to close on May 28.
When Zhao Li learned of the matter, he hoped to split part of the money. Because the land had been introduced by him, Yuan Gang had verbally promised to give him C $ five hundred thousand if he sold it later.
But this time, Yuan Gang is not willing to pay again. There was a quarrel between the two men.
In order to ease the atmosphere, after the argument just asked Zhao Li gun support thing. In Yuan Gang's mansion, there is a "gun room," and in the early morning of May 2, 2015, Zhao Li showed off a shotgun in public. He invented a butt that allows novice hunters to fasten the gun to their waist, making it easy to hold on, and a better fit for the shoot. Zhao Li is to show him the gun, Yuan Gang listened to very interested, and Zhao Li said that you can set up a company, specialized in selling this kind of gun butts, and let two good English young people to run together.
At this time, Yuan Gang with jokes and anger, said that let himself die:
"4000 yuan a month, salary."
This sentence aroused Zhao Li's discontent again, the two people began to fight, Yuan Gang turned back to take the gun, Zhao Li first found a hammer to hit Yuan Gang's head. But Yuan Gang because the figure is stronger, snatched Zhao Li's hammer, waved to Zhao Li. In panic, Zhao Li took the gun and pointed at Yuan Gang.
"I was scared, and I fired. After the first shot, he raised his head and raised his hand very high. I was so scared that I fired another shot, and then he lay still. I've lost my head. Thinking, 'what's going on? What happened? I'm in a lot of trouble, and then I think I'll have to clean it up as soon as possible. " Zhao Li told the police afterwards.
Finally, through legal medical expert post-mortem, Canada, we found that Yuan Gang had traces of blunt force attack around him, and fatal injury was the bullet wound. on his neck.
Shortly after the death of Yuan Gang, cousin Li Xiaomei and Yuan Gang mother walked back, entered the door, saw the blood in the living room, the old lady fainted on the spot. After waking up Zhao Li advised them to hurry up the leave scene, clear the suspicion, the two hurriedly leave. Finally, Li Xiaomei hesitated for a long time, or reported the case to the local police that night.
Terrorist exhumation for 10 hours.
Yuan Qiang's lawer questioned the police after the crime: after receiving the alarm to arrive at the scene, but did not go in to arrest the suspect, only used a horn outside the house to shout Zhao Li out to surrender, spent nearly 10 hours, until Zhao Li's body was finished, destroyed all the evidence.
According to court transcripts, the first police officers present said they entered the backyard of the house with a shield and heard the sound of a three-hour chainsaw from time to time. Police officers watching in the backyard said they saw an Asian man washing his hands in the kitchen several times and washing dishes. The man also washed a chainsaw. Police clearly saw a crimson liquid on the saw. The man even ate a banana calmly after washing the saw.
Yuan Gang's family members angrily accused, said the Canadian police "as timid as a mouse, the backyard of the house is transparent glass rooms, police can clearly see Zhao Li's every move."
Police officer Ricken (Sandra Rijken), who was at the scene at the time, testified in court that as the command center said it was suspected of having a gun and was likely to injure nearby people, it would have to wait until it could be safely arrested. All the police were armed and formed bulletproof shields to sneak into the garden outside the house. Police officers also used Putonghua, Cantonese and English to turn themselves in.
Two other first police officers, Hall (Ian Hall) and McLean (Mark MacLean), also testified, both of whom said they had entered the backyard around midnight to observe the light-lit kitchen in the dark. They saw an Asian man in the room who came to the kitchen sink frequently to wash his hands, not only his arms, elbows, and even his neck, which took much longer than usual. When one of them came to wash his hands, the man stopped by to wash the dishes next to the kitchen sink.
Mr. Howell revealed that around 3 a.m., the man was cleaning in the tank with a yellow-and-white chainsaw, and he clearly saw a deep red liquid flowing from the saw. He said the man washed the electric saw for a long time, and soaked the saw in the water, during which he ate a banana, his expression relaxed and calm. Howell said the kitchen was bright but the backyard was dark, so police officers were hiding in the backyard to see clearly what was inside the kitchen, including the man cleaning an iron mallet. After sunrise, the man was seen walking around the house with a shotgun.
In court's statement, Zhao said the garden had just been chopped up and piled in the garage. He packed the body into a plastic bag, went to wash the chainsaw, and washed the hammer he had used before. In addition to the hammer and chainsaw, he washed the hunting knife and the gun that killed Yuan Gang. "because after the fight, I had blood on my hands, and I washed it, and I washed everything." Zhao Li said.
After washing all the evidence, Zhao Li even ran to the room to sleep. He woke up in the morning and cooked himself a bowl of noodles. At eight o'clock in the morning, Zhao Li went out and turned himself in.
After police subdued Zhao Li, they began to search the room. They then found the place where the body had been separated was in the garage, in which 11 black plastic bags for garbage were found. The coroner began to splice the body and found it incomplete, and Zhao said there were still two bags in the freezer in the garage. In the end, Yuan Gang's viscera was still not found.
Zhao Li was charged by police with two counts of second-degree murder and desecration of the body.
Incest cloud
In May 2017, the murder began pre-trial in Canada. A few days later, a shocking scene took place. Zhao Li suddenly confessed to the real cause of the murder on court-Yuan Gang coerced him to marry his daughter Zhao Yiming.
Zhao Liting trial sketch
Zhao Lidu said that when discussing the gun butt business on the day of the incident, after Yuan just said he would only give him 4,000 yuan in salary, although he was very angry, he still suppressed his anger and explained that it was his invention and should have taken at least 1 / 3 of the shares in the company he founded. However, Yuan Gang very disapprovingly, he said the butt is very easy to copy, do not know whether to make money.
Then he said what really killed him: "if you marry me, I'll give you a 50% stake in the joint venture."
Zhao said he thought Yuan Gang was joking at the time. He was furious when he found out he was serious. "you're not a human being, you're an animal," he told Yuan, and the two fought before they had a series of moves on top of the hammering, shoot,.
According to Zhao Li in the trial described, Yuan Gang is a "bad temper, rough person." And, according to him, when he lived with Yuan, he had at least "brought back hundreds of girls" and had a very chaotic private life.
Zhao Li's daughter, Zhao Yiming, is Yuan Gang's cousin, and her English name, Florence Zhao, has been portraying himself for many years as a "rich second generation in Vancouver." Her undisguised display on social media: I sexy, I'm CEO, designer, entrepreneur, independent brand FLO.Z activewear and lifestyle. Founder, Master of Design.
Zhao Yiming is in Princess my biggest.
In 2015, Zhao Yiming joined Reality Show program, Princess my largest, in Canada to become an online celebrity. The special display of the second-generation Asian-American Reality Show, which failed to be screened on television, can only be broadcast on video website in the form of a web ensemble. The main content is to show Asian rich women "extremely luxurious life", they "extraordinary youth", as well as the profound truth of life.
These so-called rich women, in the show, take the tune, laugh at a famous Vancouver restaurant, no Kobe beef is a "tragic mistake in food", casino is a huge amount of money, luxury store reviews are full of competition. Buy more than 800,000 VCA necklaces, dislike 4 million pianos, hold Herm è s and claim to be "only two limited edition Chanel bags across China".
Zhao Yiming showed the sisters around his cousin Yuan Gang's mansion, Rolls-Royce, and private islands, introducing them and saying, "my house, my car, my island."
In the just bought island (Pym Island), Zhao Yiming with other guests and crew of the introduction, the island's villas are antiques, the island is managed by a special butler. The group angled crabs on the island, ate seafood, and fought against each other in the open and dark, and the battle finally made her a part of the show. In the interview, the staff asked her why she was so confident, and she replied, "my confidence comes from my experience, my family and my parents."
What she had not thought of was that hell was coming. Before the praise and spotlight, soon to be received by netizens all over the world, they criticized: you show off those, are not yours.
On May 21, 2015, Zhao Yiming posted the last Weibo saying, "these days are my darkest days." Waiting for the truth, then emptied all her Weibo.
2 Legacy
Three years later, Zhao Lixing's criminal case has not yet been closed. Yuan Gang's estate dispute set off a new climax.
As a result of the sudden incident, Yuan just before his death did not have time to make a will, according to court, his legacy assets of about C $16 million, equivalent to nearly 90 million yuan. Although yuan had been unmarried before his life, the rich man had been exposed to a large number of women and also had a number of illegitimate children. Naturally, the women who claimed to have his children began a fierce inheritance struggle soon after his death.
5 birth mothers, 7 children
In a legacy case that has lasted more than a year, five girlfriends, with seven children, testified to split the estate. Finally, according to Yuan Gang brother Yuan Qiang, after the paternity test confirmed that the 5 children are Yuan Gang birth.
Relationship Map of Yuan Gang case drawn by overseas Chinese Media
Under the Canadian inheritance Act, if a person dies without a will, he or she is entitled to half the estate and the rest to the eligible child if he can prove that he is the cohabitation spouse of the person. The estate case is currently brought by two women who claim to be partners of Yuan Gang's cohabiting spouse, prosecute, who became M1 (Mother No. 1) and M5 (Mother No. 5) by court respectively.
M1 claimed that she and Yuan just met in May 2004 in China and then began dating, when she was underage. Soon, she moved into Yuan Gang's parents' residence and began to live with Yuan Gang. The two were separated for a while, but reunited in August 2007 and lived together again until Yuan was killed.
M1 also said that in December 2008, she and Yuan Gang's child was born. Yuan Gang often flies to Canada to do business, and she is not accompanied by her children. From late 2008 to early 2009, Yuan told her he planned to stay stable and arrange for his family to live in Canada.
In August 2014, Yuan just decided to stay in Canada for permanent resident status and business. The following month, she and her child (the case called "Child one") were granted a Canadian tourist visa.
Ms. Yuan had intended to bring her to Canada with her children and Yuan's mother, but with Yuan's murder, it all fell apart, M1 said. Then she took her children to Canada and attended Yuan Gang's funeral. In addition, even if Yuan had just passed away, she had maintained good relations with Yuan Gang's family and had spent Chinese festivals together from time to time.
68 girlfriends and lots of indecent videos
Another mother, M5, posted on court last week that she had arrived in Vancouver in the summer of 2014 after she was pregnant. She accidentally found Yuan Gang's "girlfriend list" in a U-disk when she cohabited at the West win house in Yuan Gang in the summer of 2014. As many as 68 people were found on her "girlfriend list". There are also make love videos of Yuan Gang with women, female nude photos, and three videos of Yuan's three children filmed by Yuan Gang.
She said she shivered and wept all over her body and felt she had been deceived, but when she calmed down, she decided not to question Yuan Gang, but instead to avoid conflict making excuses to return to China first. M5 said that when she calmed down, she decided not to question Yuan Gang. Didn't want Yuan Gang to know that she had discovered these ugly things before leaving. When she heard she was going home, Yuan Gang was surprised to say that she had agreed to go to the United States to have children.
Since then, M5 has been accompanied by a mother to give birth to children in the United States, and the expenses have been paid by Yuan just, and he also went to visit. M5 said that he had not yet had time to discuss child maintenance with Yuan just after, and only said that he hoped Yuan Gang would consciously fulfill his father's responsibilities. Otherwise, it can be solved by law.
According to M5, Yuan just proposed to her in 2014. At that time, Yuan Gang said that he was not young, wanted to find someone to live quietly, and said that his friend had just married in the United States, so she also suggested that M5 should marry him in the United States, but M5 said that she had replied at the time that she felt Yuan Gang was not very good-tempered. Both sides should know more.
03 is not over because the criminal and civil cases are related to Yuan Gang's property, involved in complex, court in the trial, the truth is still constantly updated.
200 million assets
Yuan Gang, born in 1973, has two properties in Canada, according to Vancouver-based court, at 963King Georgia Road, Vancouver, and 3333 The Crescent, Vancouver's Sonas district.
Sanas district mansion
The 3333 is Vancouver's "Class A Historic Heritage Building," a 11598-square-foot building with 10 bedrooms and seven bathrooms, which costs at least C $50, 000 a year in land taxes. Court valued the two houses at $10.8 million and $22 million, respectively.
In addition to the real estate, Yuan just started an agricultural company in Canada, under the name of the company, bought 7343 acres of land in Saskatchewan, Canada, and the farm was valued at C $500-C $6 million in 2016.
In addition, Yuan Gang also has a black Rolls-Royce Phantom car in Canada, valued at C $ one hundred and ninety thousand, and a black Bentley luxury car. Court did not give an estimate because it was still under maintenance.
Yuan Gang has two overseas bank accounts, with a balance of C $2.2 million. And appliances, yachts and other assets. All together, Yuan Gang in Canada's total assets of about C $40 million, about 200 million yuan.
At home, Mr. Yuan is said to have 11 vehicles, including five Audi, one Lexus, one Padero and one Rolls-Royce. Of the 11 cars, 8 are Beijing plates and 3 are Tangshan plates. He also owned two properties in Beijing, worth 100 million yuan in 2016 and 25 million yuan in 2016, but one of them was seized in 2016 because of a 15 million-yuan corporate loan for guarantee.
Copy of Yuan Gang Maple Leaf Card presented at trial
In 2007, Yuan just through investment emigrate to Vancouver, get maple leaf card. And then bought the sa province farm, 2 luxury homes, a private island. During his transfer of personal property to Canada, he also became vice president of the Chinese Federation of Canada, a larger Chinese mainland background overseas Chinese group in Vancouver with dozens of collective members and a large number of vice-chairmen.
[法]deferral of sentence
It was not because of his generosity and care for relatives, but to avoid taxes, that he put the mansion under the name of the Zhao Li couple.
In Canada, although benefits are high but taxes are equally high, although Vancouver's property tax rate, compared to the lowest in Canada's largest cities, averaged 0.24683% in 2018. Yuan Gang's two luxury homes to add up to at least 80, 000 yuan in real estate tax. More importantly, the Court has been moving assets after immigration, according to Canadian regulations, if the assets after immigration is higher than the assets at the time of declaration, need to explain the source of additional assets, why not declare, why not pay taxes? The tax problem, which is both serious and headache in Canada, is likely to be tracked by the IRD on a continuous basis, in addition to huge fines, if found to be a problem. So many Chinese secretly put their homes in the name of relatives, which is called "head tax avoidance."
If Zhao Li is really Yuan Gang's "human head," then the long-term people under the fence, just at the beginning of the yuan to feed too many "idle people" have grievances, the two sides of the conflict is almost inevitable.
Yuan Qiang rushed to Vancouver immediately after the case, through the lawer team to urgently apply to the court for the administration of Yuan Gang's estate. According to the filing, Yuan Gang's family is worried about Zhao Li, Li Xiaomei's mansion where the murder will be used as a guarantee for Zhao Li bail. And the next day, Li Xiaomei transferred 2 million from his account, which directly constituted Zhao Li and Li Xiaomei's "improper enrichment" (unjustly enriched).
Because of the absence of a will, Yuan Gang's estate has to go through a long trial in Canada's court before the final judgment on the manner in which the estate is allocated. Zhao also became a witness in the Yuan Gang estate case on December 6, testifying for the two mothers and five children involved in the case.
According to the current situation, Zhao Li's criminal case will be postponed to 2019 before the trial can be re-opened. Yuan Gang's twists and turns of the life story, it seems far from the end of the meaning.