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China crime: murder, botched plastic surgery and greed — 10 true stories that grabbed national headlines last year

  • Police shut down a sophisticated Louis Vuitton counterfeit racket that netted 100 million yuan (US$15.4 million)
  • A man abducted another man with Down’s syndrome and sold his body to a family to substitute for another body due to be cremated

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A woman pushed off a cliff, a child bride calls police, fake designer bags: the crime stories that made headlines last year. Photo: SCMP artwork

As the coronavirus pandemic continued to wreak havoc around the world in the last 12 months, a series of high-profile crimes caught national attention

‘Go to hell’: the last words she heard before she was pushed off a cliff

Those were the last words Wang Nan heard before her husband kissed her on the cheek and pushed her off a cliff in Thailand where he had supposedly taken her to see the sunrise on June 9, 2019.
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She survived the fall but was forced to terminate her unborn baby because of the large doses of medication she had to take following the attack. Her attacker was later convicted of attempted murder by a Thai court, but later had his sentence reduced to 10 years on appeal.
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Price of love stands at US$315,000 for men in Chinese marriage scam

Nineteen Chinese men were conned by an elaborate wedding scam last year. Photo: AFP
Nineteen Chinese men were conned by an elaborate wedding scam last year. Photo: AFP

Nineteen Chinese men looking for love found themselves sharing two wives and tricked out of more than 2 million yuan (US$315,000) in a marriage scam, authorities in Inner Mongolia revealed last year.

The two women and their three accomplices were detained after one of the victims saw his “wife” as a bride at another wedding and called police.

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Police seize fake Louis Vuitton bags worth US$15.4 million and arrest 40

Police in China last year shut down a sophisticated counterfeit Louis Vuitton racket that netted 100 million yuan (US$15.4 million).

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