On May 2, 2015, a major event occurred in Canada that shocked the Chinese community, and Yuan Gang, the vice president of the Canadian Chinese Federation, was killed and dismembered in his mansion.
Unexpectedly, it was not someone else who killed him, but his cousin-in-law Zhao Li.
It is reported that the cousin Li Xiaomei's family has been cared for by Yuan Gang for many years, and the luxury villa they live in in Vancouver, Canada, was also purchased by Yuan Gang, and even the cost of studying abroad during her only daughter Zhao Yiming's stay in Italy was all borne by Yuan Gang.
It can be said that Yuan Gang is as kind as a mountain to his cousin's family.
But why would cousin Zhao Li kill his benefactor and dismember him in 108 pieces?!
Is it DouMi Yang En, Sheng Mi Yang En, En will take revenge, or is there another hidden plot behind this?
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Yuan Gang was born in 1973 in Tangshan, Hebei Province. Although he did not study much and only had a high school degree, he had a good mind for business.
He reportedly made his fortune by selling crude oil stolen from oil guzzlers, but some media said he started out in the coal business. In 2002, he and a friend partnered to open a real estate company, accumulating a huge fortune in just 7 years and becoming a director of China Datang Investment Management Co., Ltd.
In 2005, Yuan Gang, who had been developing smoothly in China, decided to immigrate to Canada for some reasons.
By studying Canada's immigration policy, he chose the fastest and most convenient way to immigrate, that is, to marry a Chinese Canadian woman.
Two years later, Yuan Gang successfully got maple leaf, obtained permanent residency, and went through divorce procedures with the "fake wife".
Prior to this, he had spent huge sums of money on limousines, yachts and a large number of land properties, including a 7,500-acre island worth 10 million, a luxury villa with exquisite gardens, swimming pools, 10 bedrooms, 90 million and a mansion worth 40 million (the location of the crime).
Because he also has to take care of domestic industries, he often needs to travel between the two places, and has no extra time and energy to take care of Canadian real estate. To this end, he thought of his cousin Li Xiaomei, who lives in Montreal, Canada, and hoped that she could help take care of it.
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Li Xiaomei is the adopted daughter of Aunt Yuan Gang, who met and fell in love with her husband Zhao Li in 1984 and eventually married Lianli. After marriage, they ran a small printing company together and gradually accumulated a certain wealth.
In 2001, in order to give their 14-year-old only daughter Zhao Yiming better access to educational resources, the family of three immigrated to Montreal, Canada.
In the first few years after immigration, Li Xiaomei's company developed well due to proper management and could fully afford the family's living.
However, Zhao Li was not satisfied with this, and played stock speculation and investment, but due to bad luck, successive failures caused the company's capital chain to break, and life began to become insufficient.
At this moment, Li Xiaomei received an invitation from her cousin Yuan Gang. The couple happily agreed to Yuan Gang's request and moved to Vancouver in 2010.
During this period, Yuan Gang, who remembered his relatives, cared for them very much, not only gave up his 40 million yuan worth of mansion to his cousin's family to live in, but also transferred the property directly to his cousin's name (after the incident, Yuan Gang's family said that Yuan Gang did this to avoid taxes).
It is not difficult to see that Yuan Gang not only takes good care of his cousin Li Xiaomei's family, but also has special trust.
In 2011, Yuan gang founded Canada International Agricultural Development Limited, which specializes in farmland investment and management services, and to this end, he also bought 7,500 acres of farmland in Shaskatchewan Province.
Out of trust, Yuan Gang handed over the company to his cousin Zhao Li to manage it, and his cousin Li Xiaomei entered the company as an accountant and cook.
In addition to paying Li Xiaomei and his wife high wages, Yuan Gang also undertook all the living expenses of their family, even including the entire cost of his niece Zhao Yiming's study in Italy.
In addition, he often takes his cousin-in-law Zhao Li to the gatherings of some overseas rich people to help him build and accumulate contacts.
Thanks to Yuan Gang's special support, Zhao Li not only quickly got rid of the financial crisis, but also successfully entered the upper class, began to frequently enter and exit high-end places, and became more and more generous.
For a long time, Yuan Gang got along harmoniously with his cousin Li Xiaomei and his cousin Zhao Li, and enjoyed it.
He almost became the closest person to their family.
Niece Zhao Yiming directly advertised herself as a rich second generation when she participated in a Chinese reality show called "Princess My Biggest", and said that the island under the name of her uncle Yuan, as well as the mansion and villa, was her own.
The show premiered on an online platform on October 26, 2014.
At the time, Zhao Claimed to have graduated from milan's Marangani School of Fashion and Design, was bilingual in English and French, had a master's degree, and ran his own clothing brand.
Beautiful, golden and self-motivated, these labels make Zhao Yiming unique for a while, especially when she warmly greets everyone on Yuan Gang's island to "Welcome to my island", which makes everyone more and more envious, thinking that she is really a winner in life.
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However, no one ever thought that in less than a year after the program was broadcast, with the occurrence of Yuan Gang's murder, not only was the identity of Zhao Yiming's pseudo-rich second generation exposed, but also the ungrateful face of his father Zhao Li was also revealed.
At about 6:45 p.m. on May 2, 2015, Vancouver police received an alarm from Li Xiaomei that her husband, Zhao Li, had shot and killed his cousin Yuan Gang.
After the police arrived, because they were afraid of the gun in Zhao Li's hand, they did not immediately arrest him, but chose to continue to crouch on the periphery. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the mansion, they clearly saw Zhao Li methodically dismembering Yuan Gang, during which he even took a nap and cooked a bowl of noodles for himself.
They were shocked to witness Zhao Li's actions, but it wasn't until the early hours of May 3, 2015, that they arrested Zhao Li, who was planning to eat breakfast, and found 108 plastic bags containing Yuan Gang's body in the kitchen refrigerator.
After his arrest, Zhao Li confessed to his crime, but the motive he told about the killing was unbelievable to everyone.
Zhao Li said that on the day of the crime, he invited Yuan Gang to the mansion at 963 King George Road in Vancouver for discussions. The mansion was the property that Yuan had just purchased and transferred to his cousin Li Xiaomei.
He is an avid hunter and frequents canada's major hunting grounds.
During the hunting process, he felt that for people with thin bodies, it would be a little difficult to lift the gun directly, so he invented a stock that could be placed on the waist as a support.
He hopes to start a company with Yuan Gang, and he will own 30% of the shares as an inventor.
However, Yuan Gang believes that Zhao Li's invention is too simple and easy to be copied and imitated, so he is not fully sure that he will be able to make money.
But he did not want to miss an opportunity and offered not to give Zhao Li shares, but to pay him only a salary of 4,000 Canadian dollars per month.
Zhao Li was very dissatisfied with this plan and theorized with Yuan Gang.
He said that he had a gentle personality and was not as strong as Yuan Gang, and if it were not for Yuan Gang's words, they would not have had a physical conflict at all, and then shot Yuan Gang in anger.
Zhao Li said that Yuan Gang proposed that if he married his daughter Zhao Yiming to him, he could give Zhao Li a 50% stake.
It was Yuan Gang's words that made Zhao Li, who had always loved his daughter, furious, grabbed Yuan Gang's neckline and scolded him.
"You're a beast who's inferior to a pig or a dog, and you don't want to beat my daughter."
Zhao Li felt that Yuan Gang's private life was extremely unruly, there were no less than a hundred girls who had contact with him, and although Yuan Gang and his wife Li Xiaomei were not related by blood, they were also cousins and brothers for many years, how could they covet their niece?!
Zhao Li always made a promise in front of Yuan Gang, as soon as this sentence came out, Yuan Gang was instantly angry, and his backhand gave Zhao Li a punch, knocking him to the ground.
Considering that his height and body size were very different from Yuan Gang's, and he was not his opponent at all, zhao Li trotted all the way to pick up the gun placed in the living room for hunting, and fired two shots at him like aiming at prey, causing him to die on the spot.
Li Xiaomei, who went out to return home, just saw Yuan Gang lying in a pool of blood, and immediately called the police.
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As soon as Zhao Li's remarks came out, for a while, the news that Yuan Gang coveted his niece and lost her life was very loud, and it became everyone's talk after tea.
However, for this statement, Yuan Gang's younger brother Yuan Qiang did not agree.
He said that his brother Yuan Gang could not look down on Zhao Yiming.
Although her appearance is OK, she is less than 1 meter 60 tall.
And the objects that Yuan Gang usually interacts with belong to the type of white skin, beautiful and long legs.
Moreover, Yuan Gang would not consider getting married.
For years, he only socialized with women but never intended to get married. Because he feared that if a discord led to divorce after marriage, he would need to divide all the property in his name in half under Canadian law.
In addition, Yuan Qiang believes that the root cause of Zhao Li's murder of Yuan Gang lies in money.
He said that long before the crime, Yuan Gang's business in Canada began to decline, and the living expenses of supporting Zhao Li's family became a burden.
In 2014, Yuan Gang took a fancy to the drone market and wanted to get agency rights from a company in the United States, but this required a large amount of money.
Therefore, Yuan Gang wanted to sell the mansion where Zhao Li's family lived.
However, Zhao Li and his wife, who learned the news, were very reluctant, and Li Xiaomei complained to relatives many times that he would soon be homeless.
To this end, the first thing Yuan Qiang did after arriving in Canada was to apply to the court to preserve the mansion where Zhao Li and his wife lived, fearing that they would directly sell the house in order to raise bail.
In the end, the court agreed to Yuan Qiang's application.
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Yuan Gang is dead, and we have no way of knowing which of Zhao Li and Yuan Qiang's claims is closer to the truth.
In October 2010, after four years of trial, because the police could not find evidence of Zhao Li's intentional homicide, he was finally sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison for manslaughter and insulting the body.
It is worth mentioning that because Yuan just died suddenly, he did not leave any will. After his death, his nearly 100 million yuan fortune became the object of contention, including Yuan Qiang, Zhao Li and seven women who claimed to be the mothers of Yuan Gang's children.
Later, after the court's appraisal, the children of 5 of them were indeed related to Yuan Gang.
Moreover, according to one of the women, there were no less than 5 women in Yuan Gang's simultaneous relationship.
From this point of view, Yuan Gang is indeed mercurial.
But regardless of his private life, he did take care of his cousin Li Xiaomei's family of 3 for 5 years.
As the saying goes, DouMi raises grace and Shengmi raises revenge, and Yuan Gang eventually died at the hands of the "family" who relied on his life, and was tragically divided into 108 pieces, and his fate is really regrettable.