On 15 February 1974, the Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong was established.
It is not under the jurisdiction of the Hong Kong government, is directly responsible to the supreme administrator, and is responsible for handling all anti-corruption work with full authority.
"Hong Kong, wins in ICAC", "ICAC confidentiality, confidentiality"
These two advertising slogans are almost well known to women and children in Hong Kong.
In the Hong Kong movie "Cold War", Leung Ka-fai played the deputy commissioner of police Li Wenbin, who was questioned by Lian Zhi, there was a very classic line.
"I've been in the Force for thirty years, I've met a lot of friends and I've offended a lot of people.
But in the past thirty years, I have learned one thing that is every institution
Every department and every position has its own rules of the game.
Whether it is light or dark, the first step is to learn it.
But many people are already dead before they get to this point, do you know why? opinionated.
The second step is to find a line in this game, learn how not to foul, and know how to play in the online ball, so as to barely save your life. ”
Li Wenbin is a master.
Today we're going to tell a story about a foul in this game.
He is the father of Hong Kong singer Eason Chan and former General Buildings Equipment Engineer of the Hong Kong Housing Department, Chan Jo-tai.
One
January 2000, a cold and windy day.
Chen Qiuda received a call to ask him to dinner, and he hurriedly left the office and got into a black car on the side of the road with a double flash waiting for a long time.
Poster of a Hong Kong anti-corruption movie
The man in the car is Lai Xisheng, the owner of The Hong Kong listed company Yaosheng.
The car sped smoothly toward the restaurant, and the two men did not say a word after a brief greeting.
When he was about to arrive at the restaurant, Chen Qiuda suddenly changed his mouth and said that he was going to Happy Valley, and Lai Xisheng had to change his route.
When waiting for the red light, Lai Xisheng took a paper bag from the back seat and handed it to Chen Qiuda, Who did not ask anything, tacitly took the bag, and asked to get off after a few hundred meters.
"There's still something to do today, I'll talk about it after dinner."
Lai Xisheng had no choice but to park the car on the side of the road, and Chen Qiu quickly opened the car door and disappeared into the vast sea of people.
There was HK$700,000 in cash in the paper bag.
This happened four times in a row, and each time Lai Xisheng would give Chen Qiuda a paper bag, chen Qiuda was very cautious, and each meeting time would not exceed thirty minutes, until the fourth time they ate together.
Every time he got the money, Chen Qiu returned to the office at the first time and closed the door.
Then counting the money over and over again in the office, he wasn't liquidating the amount, but he could feel an obsessive thrill when the money was firmly held in his hand and rattled.
On July 23, 2001, Chen Qiuda called in his office.
"That license plate is definitely more than that."
"That's it, I'll tell my big brother again."
"You want me to help you?" How can I help? Your eldest brother himself can't be a man, I'm so hard to help. ”
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After a pause, he lowered the line,
"It's so annoying, I don't want to play, I took too much risk, now ICC is so powerful, check it tightly, I'm terrified."
The other person asked, "What do you feel?" ”
Chen Qiu paused, "Not yet." ”
About this dialogue, the editor did not hide under Chen Qiuda's desk, unfortunately, these dialogues have been clearly captured by the camera hidden in the ceiling.
As for the details of the amount, they come from the testimony of Lai Xisheng himself after the incident.
Two
Chen Qiuda was born in the countryside of Yuen Long, in the kind of village house that often appears in Hong Kong dramas, he also has two younger brothers, and his father is a pork guy.
Because of his ordinary family background, Chen Qiu worked extra hard in college.
At the age of 25, he received a Hong Kong government scholarship to study in the United Kingdom, and after graduating from strathclyde University in Scotland with half-work and half-study, Chan returned to Hong Kong to work.
At the age of 26, the old father was critically ill, Chen Qiu da chong Xicang to promote marriage, the woman Lu Yanhong engaged in the ready-to-wear business, the same year, their eldest son was born.
Two years later, the younger son fell to the ground, which was the later singer Eason Chan.
Climbing up from a small clerk to studying for a master's degree in public administration at HKU while working, chen Qiuda felt a heavy burden on his shoulders as his two sons were born.
His wife, Lu Yanhong, is a woman with fierce emotions, and Chen Qiuda is preoccupied with her career and does not pay much attention to her wife.
When the youngest son, Eason Chan, was 6 or 7 years old, the family had moved to the government dormitory on Bila Hill Road, "a place big enough to put down a ping-pong table."
Eason Chan is very stubborn, often clamoring to buy toys, if unsuccessful, he threatens his mother with death, chen Qiuda when he comes home, often see two naughty sons make their mother dizzy.
Chen Qiuda and his wife are indifferent, he pins his hopes on the cultivation of his son, in order to make his children talented, he needs a strong backing, the backing of money.
Eason Chan was sent to the UK by his father to study at the age of 12, and he hoped that his son could return with a degree in architecture from a prestigious university, but Eason Chan loved music, and at Kingston University, he studied architecture while studying music courses.
Holding the Royal College of Music Grade 8 Vocal Music Certificate, proper academic school.
In the summer of 1995, when Eason Chan returned to China, he participated in the 14th Rookie Singing Contest jointly organized by Huaxing and TVB, singing Jacky Cheung's song "Wangyue" and winning the championship.
Chen Qiuda does not support his son to be an artist, in his eyes, the entertainment industry is a precarious industry, and serious people who want their children to show.
He's been out of retirement for a few years, and he needs to make quick money to give his family more protection.
In early 1999, the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong received a report that Chan Hada had taken advantage of his position to solicit bribes from the renovation company that was fighting for the project, which was of a bad nature.
The ICAC immediately began deploying the case.
This year, Eason Chan and Xu Haochen fell in love for three years.
Three
Xu Haochen, who entered the entertainment industry after graduating from high school, has two labels:
Eason Chan's loser wife and fashionista who doesn't look good.
Xu Haochen really loves fashion, so when the news wrote "Eason Chan live crying that there are only 30 million left in the card", netizens all said one-sidedly:
scare! Blame his loser wife, who buys and buys all day!
People who think like this do not understand why Eason Chan loves Xu Haochen so much.
In the year that Chen Qiuda was investigated by the ICAC, Xu Haochen and Eason Chan were still budding children in the entertainment industry.
In 2001, when Chen Qiuda was arrested, he said:
"I am a clean and honest official, and I rarely interact with contractors and accept bribes.
It wasn't until the ICAC took out the surveillance video that Wu Manhai, deputy director of the Housing Department, had arranged for his men to be installed in Chen Qiuda's office, that his tone softened.
In those one or two years, Eason Chan worked very hard.
In 2002, when Eason Chan was working in Taiwan, he accidentally fell off the stage and injured his lower body, and after Xu Haochen knew about it, he rushed to his side by freight plane overnight.
At that time, Eason Chan's career was still on the rise, there was a father who was in prison, and his relationship with his mother was not very close, but what about Xu Haohao?
As soon as he debuted, he partnered Withy Lau and Lin Zhiying, who was also a promising little flower in the circle.
The road she accompanied Eason Chan and the scenes she experienced were too many.
In December 2003, Chen Qiu's case was heard.
He was charged with 16 counts of accepting benefits from public officials, amounting to $3.36 million.
During surveillance, the chief prosecutor, Mai Lizhong, described him as "extremely greedy."
In January 2004, the court ruled as follows:
Imprisonment for 6 years;
The deposit of 6 million yuan received is confiscated;
Returned the bribe of 2.6 million yuan.
At the same time, Chen Qiuda's salary and pension of 5.5 million yuan will be cancelled.
This time, the book loss exceeded 10 million.
In addition, the cost of litigation is also a huge number.
The media said that even if Chen Qiuda had other bribes that had not been found, it would not be possible to exceed this number, and he had lost enough this time!
The Chen Qiu case is the second heaviest penalty for corruption and bribery in Hong Kong in more than 30 years!
It was the beginning of the century, when the banknotes were not bad, and the income of artists was not so high.
It can be referred to in the same period, when Wang Zuxian quit the entertainment circle in 2004, it was because she could not stand the fact that she had accepted the mansion of the wealthy businessman Lin Jianyue.
The mansion that made the goddess angry was worth 13 million Hong Kong dollars, and Lin Jianyue only paid a 30% down payment.
Therefore, Chen Qiuda's money is a huge crisis for any family.
Moreover, Chen Qiu's son Chen Eason was also wrapped up in the lawsuit.
He said in court that it was because the other party threatened him with Eason Chan's career that he had no choice but to accept bribes.
The judge did not accept it.
On the day of the sentencing, Eason Chan and Xu Haohao arrived in court early, and Eason Chan looked at his father with bloodshot eyes and exhaustion.
The father, Chen Qiuda, looked at his son flawlessly, and when the judge announced the conviction of the nine counts in court, Eason Chan immediately walked up to his father.
Chen Qiuda only said one sentence: "Don't be unhappy. ”
These unspeakable, sad, helpless moments were spent with Xu Haochen, and the most important thing was that when the Chen family needed money, Xu Haochen took all his 2 million savings to Eason Chen.
In the same year, the media photographed Eason Chan and Xu Haochen going out, Xu Haohao's stomach was already very large, their expressions were natural throughout the whole process, and there was no intention of avoidance.
In 2006, Eason Chan and Xu Haochen were about to hold a wedding, and their daughter Kandy was already one year old.
When preparing for the wedding, the two planned to buy a house of 60 million yuan, Eason Chan's mother was very unhappy, she was distressed about her son, did not want her son to carry so much debt, so she vented her anger on her daughter-in-law, and she did not attend the wedding.
Xiaobian does not understand, the house bought is the whole family to live, and not Xu Haochen alone, before buying the small two must have discussed, why the pot is let the daughter-in-law back?
There is also a rumor in the jianghu that in 2008, when Chen Qiuda was released on parole due to illness, he needed a huge amount of bail and a large amount of money to see a doctor.
At that time, Xu Haochen and Eason Chan quarreled, and bought 500,000 clothes in a huff, and Eason Chan went home to use money to find that the money was not enough, so he had to look around for friends to borrow.
At that time, Xu Haochen did not respond, but this matter has been passed on, and many years later, she said:
"If I'm such a loser that he can't even get the money to see my father, do you think he'll still be with me?"
The media always likes to demonize women, from Zhang Xiaohui to Xu Haohao, thousands of mistakes are women's fault.
In fact, Eason Chan, the loser of Xu Hao, was the first to accept it, and he even said:
"I'm a lot worse than her, and I can make money if I can spend it!"
Today, Chen Kandi is 17 years old, and she looks so much like her mother when she was young.
The most recent sentence of Eason Chan's 2020 live broadcast has been turned over and fermented, saying that Eason Chan's balance of 30 million is not satisfied, and he is compared with Zhang Tingshuangzi and other legal coffee.
As he spoke, he turned the topic to the wife who could never be scolded.
There is no need for really unnecessary, Eason Chan's achievements in the circle for so many years are obvious to all, the number of representative works can not be counted, Xu Haochen has never stopped working, she opened a buying shop, took care of the concert style for her husband, actively participated in various public welfare activities, obviously it is a rare loving couple in the circle.
His father, Chen Qiuda, is doing well after a liver transplant in Beijing and is now a 77-year-old man.
The past, let it pass!