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Corruption Gets Creative: Chinese Officials Get Fake Divorces to Cheat Their Way to More Wealth

Corruption Gets Creative: Chinese Officials Get Fake Divorces to Cheat Their Way to More Wealth
Chinese military delegates about to enter the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on March 12, 2015. Feng Li/Getty Images
Annie Wu
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With an anti-corruption campaign raging on within the Chinese Communist Party, misbehaving Chinese officials have to get creative with ways to cheat, stow away their illegally amassed wealth, and hide their trail.
So officials are now filing fake divorces with their spouses in order to covertly transfer assets outside of China and avoid detection from the authorities.
Annie Wu
Annie Wu
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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