Xie Caiping once a tax official in Chongqing a city in southwest China now faces the city's Fifth Intermediate People's Court as a gang leader.
On Wednesday the 46-year-old female ringleader stood in court accused of multiple crimes including bribing city officials, running illegal gambling dens and organizing gang crimes.
Xie also known as the "Queen of Illegal Casinos" reportedly ran some 80 gambling houses throughout Chongqing with a gang of 20 mobsters and ex-convicts.
But she was able to escape police many times with the help of two bribed police officers and the city's former Justice Bureau director who also happens to be her brother-in-law.
However what's been more shocking to the country than her organized crimes, illegal casinos, and group drug sessions are her male concubines.
Local newspapers reported that Xie kept 16 young men most of them half of her age by her side for personal entertainment paying them tens of thousands of dollars.
But the leader denied such accusations saying that she only had one man by her side her 26-year-old driver.
[Interview : Beijing resident] "This is so wrong. I'm very embarrassed as a woman to hear that a woman did such a thing."
While Xie admitted to charges relating to setting up illegal casinos during her trial she strongly denied having organized and led a gang.
But despite Xie's efforts it seems that this shocking news of her unrestrained life won't be leaving people's minds anytime soon as hundreds of criticisms have already covered various websites shortly after her trial was reported in China and the rest of the world.
Lee Ji-yoon, Arirang News.
OCT 16, 2009
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