Where would you likely get away with this crime? In a system where you must strike a deal with a party that must maintain loyalty to ideological principles most violated by your crime? Or in a system like ours, where you must strike a deal with some prosecutors? The chief concerns of these prosecutors is so often their conviction rates, public optics, and personal careers.
The political structure in the west encourage these kinds of crimes. If you can exploit millions to make billions then you can settle in the event of criminal persecution, hire a pr firm to take care of public optics, and donate generously to parties in power to ensure that the pesky prosecutor/attorney-general is sufficiently motivated not to attempt to make an example out of you.
>If you can exploit millions to make billions then you can settle in the event of criminal persecution, hire a pr firm to take care of public optics, and donate generously to parties in power to ensure that the pesky prosecutor/attorney-general is sufficiently motivated not to attempt to make an example out of you.
In this case it doesn't look like they even bothered hiring a PR firm (or they're doing a piss poor job), and they seem to be getting off "fine".
I assumed they’d be executed on the spot for knowingly enriching themselves while addicting millions, leaving them to slowly decline mentally and physically before eventual death.
China would have zero tolerance due to their opium history that was imposed by the west. This is even more insidious however as the country’s institutions were mislead and this family made billions on the back of their countrymen’s misery.
1. nobody ever hears nor finds out anything because it's all kept within the party.
2. they are publically shamed and they are sent to a re-education camp never to be seen or heard again.
my 2 cents...