19. “Body doubles”
Chinese elites hire people to serve their prison sentence for them.
According to Luxury Launches, the pictures above are of Gu Kailai (right), the Chinese woman accused of the murder of Neil Heywood, who hired a body double to serve her prison time. In China, the rich and powerful can actually hire “body doubles” to do their prison time for them because of the system of “replacement convicts”. The practice is so common that they even have a term for it: ding zui [ding (substitute) zui (crime)]; in other words, “substitute criminal”. This so-called substitute criminal system is just one of the many ways China’s extreme elites are able to live by on their own rules.
