The movie - The Goldfinger - is adapted from the murder of Jian Ning, one of the top ten mysterious cases in Hong Kong.
The Jia Ning murder case was a case that occurred in the 1980s.The Jianing case involved a sum of NT$6.6 billion, with legal fees exceeding NT$200 million.
On July 18, 1983, Garil Ibarahi, the financial assistant manager of Yue Man in Malaysia, was strangled to death in a room at the Regent Hotel in Kowloon.The body was even dumped in a banana forest near Tai Po Market Station in the New Territories.
Although Ibarahi was an assistant manager who was sent from Malaysia to Hong Kong to manage accounting and loan operations, many reports and books related to the Jiani case and Ibarahi murder now believe that Ibarahi wasAn auditor, who came to Hong Kong to investigate Jiani's accounts, accused Ibarahi of trying to prevent Bumiputra Finance from providing a new loan to Jiani.
The police later arrested a Malaysian Chinese named Mak Fuxiang.During the interrogation, Mak Fuxiang claimed that Chen Songqing was the instigator of Ibarashi's murder, but Mak Fuxiang's accusation was denied by Chen Songqing's lawyer.
The defendant in this case came to Hong Kong in 1972. Through buying and selling properties and acquiring companies, he established the HK$7 billion Jiani Group in just a few years, employing nearly 30,000 employees and covering a wide range of businesses, including restaurants, travel agencies and taxi companies..However, what is unexpected is that behind this myth is a debt of nearly 10 billion yuan. The defendant used a shell company to arrange employees to serve as directors and bribed Yumin's financial executives, so that without sufficient collateral, he was able to pay without sufficient collateral.Loans obtained under normal procedures amounted to more than HK$6 billion.After entering the 1980s, Carnea Group fell into debt difficulties and was eventually liquidated in November 1983. Carnea's stock became useless paper and shareholders suffered heavy losses.
In April 1985, U-Ming Bank, the parent company of U-Ming Financial, filed a corruption complaint with the Department of Justice, and the ICAC immediately took over the investigation.Several wealthy and powerful defendants used every strategy to delay and evade trial, making the investigation very difficult.The main defendant pretended to be seriously ill and requested to terminate the hearing. ICAC officers followed him day and night and found that he was still going to entertainment venues and had a normal social life, so they exposed his excuse to the court.In addition, in the process of extraditing the former Yue Man Financial Director, the ICAC went through many difficulties and successfully obtained an extradition order from the court. However, since ICAC officers were not allowed to carry weapons or use handcuffs in France, they had to escort a defendant back to Hong Kong., ICAC officers should follow him closely at all times, even when he goes to the bathroom.On the other hand, ICAC officers traveled to 13 countries to take statements from witnesses and collect evidence.In addition, in order to cope with the various requests for evidence by the defendant's lawyers, the investigators who handled the evidence were exhausted and worked overtime for a long time. The pressure can be imagined.After pronouncing the verdict, the justice specifically commended the ICAC investigators for their incomparable endurance and perseverance.
Thanks to the efforts of ICAC officers, key players in the Jianing case finally pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to defraud in September 1996 and were sentenced to three years in prison.The other three defendants all pleaded guilty and were sentenced to jail. In the sensational Jiani Group fraud case, the four defendants were charged with multiple fraud and corruption charges, involving as much as US$500 million. The case spanned the 20th centuryIn the 1980s and 1990s, the litigation costs were estimated to be as high as HK$210 million, making it the largest and most complex commercial fraud and corruption case in Hong Kong's history.The detection of this case also reflects the ICAC's determination to combat corruption.
During the step-by-step investigation of the case, Ibachan, the financial director of Malaysia Yumin Finance who was responsible for the loan matters of the Caring Group, was murdered.
Wen Shubao, the lawyer responsible for the financial issues of Jiani Group, also died mysteriously during the investigation.Judge Bai Jia, who was in charge of hearing the case of Jianing Group, also died in an accident.
These “bizarre deaths” seemed to be related to the “Jianing Group case”, but due to insufficient evidence, no effective prosecution was ultimately possible.
The court has made judgments on the Jianing Group case many times, and Chen Songqing has also appealed against the judgment results many times.After repeated tug-of-war between the two sides, the Janing Group case was officially settled in 1994.
In the end, Chen Songqing only admitted the amount of 280 million involved and was sentenced to three years in prison.The Legal Commissioner Hu Lida was sentenced to 8 years in prison for accepting bribes and facilitating the internal operations of the Jiani Group.With the imprisonment of Chen and Hu, the Jianing Group case has come to an end.