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In 2013, a businessman in Nanning, China, had a problem. A man named Wei was suing him, and he was terrified of the long, expensive legal battle ahead. So he settled on a simpler solution: he would have Wei killed.
He hired a hitman named Xi Guangan and paid him two million yuan, around $282,000, to get it done.
But Xi had a better idea than actually committing a murder. He pocketed half the money and hired a second hitman to do the job for less. That hitman had the exact same idea. He took his cut and hired a third. The third hired a fourth. The fourth hired a fifth. At every step, each man skimmed a share off the top and passed the contract down the line.
By the time the job reached the fifth and final hitman, a man named Ling Xiansi, the fee had shriveled from $282,000 to just $14,000, about five percent of the original payment.
Ling took one look at the deal and decided it was not worth a possible life sentence. But instead of simply walking away, he came up with the most creative solution of all. He tracked down Wei, the intended target, met him at a café, and pitched him an idea: what if they just faked his death?
Wei agreed. He posed bound and gagged for a staged photo to make it look like he had been killed, which Ling sent up the chain as proof of a job well done. Then Wei went home, waited a bit, and walked straight into a police station to report the whole thing.
When investigators untangled the mess, they found a murder plot that had passed through five separate hired killers without a single person ever being harmed. In the end, the businessman and all five hitmen were sent to prison.
Nobody died. Everybody got caught. And a contract killing collapsed into one of the most incompetent criminal chains in history.
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