On June 18, 2025, according to a report from Caixin, a website, there have been recent reports that just before the May Day holiday, a post-90s assistant judge at the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court named Bai Bin fled to Japan with hundreds of millions of yuan in execution funds, causing a public outcry. Two weeks later, a netizen claiming to be Bai Bin spoke out on social media platform X, denying claims of fleeing with the money and stating that he was forced to participate in a highly opaque process of distributing “confiscated funds” arranged by a superior agency. Despite raising questions multiple times, he was told not to ask too many questions and to cooperate well as the organization would not mistreat him.
In a statement on June 17 by user “Conscience Action X” (@baoliaoX) on social media platform X, it was said, “I am Bai Bin, former assistant judge at the Execution Division of the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court. Recent claims about me ‘absconding with three billion yuan’ are purely fabricated. I am now out of danger and have faced surveillance and life threats multiple times. I will gradually reveal the insider information and key evidence in the court’s execution system, and welcome attention and sharing.”
“Conscience Action X” stated that he did not flee with the money, but was coerced into involvement in a complex case fund distribution issue related to execution operations. The financial transactions he participated in were part of a highly opaque process arranged by a superior agency involving the distribution of “confiscated funds.” Specifically, the funds originated from a defendant in a corruption case investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, whose family voluntarily paid around seventy million yuan as “reparation money” in an attempt to mitigate the case.
Although the funds were supposed to be turned over to the national treasury by the disciplinary and supervisory system, in practice, the decision was made by relevant leaders (including mid-level court officials and external contacts of the disciplinary system) to use the case number of another “fundraising fraud case” to pass the funds through the collective fund return process of execution cases in order to “conceal the origin.” This meant that the funds appeared to be returned as “execution funds” to many victims of the fundraising fraud case on the surface, but were actually subject to organized and planned secondary reallocation and transfer.
“Conscience Action X” revealed that as a staff member in an auxiliary execution position, he was always under orders during the operation process. He raised questions multiple times about this unconventional handling approach, but was told not to ask too many questions and that there were superiors involved, and he was only responsible for the process without having to bear any responsibility. Someone even explicitly stated, “This is an opportunity for you, cooperate well, the organization will not mistreat you.”
Under immense pressure and suggestions, he was forced to operate according to the designated procedures, but also took screenshots, saved documents and meeting instructions at critical stages, particularly retaining some key account information, victim lists, and reference numbers of related documents before and after fund instructions were issued.
“Conscience Action X” stated that he did not flee out of fear but chose to leave for his own safety. He retained evidence, left it in the office, and also took away some materials that he deemed necessary.
Earlier on June 4, a report published by Caixin titled “Assistant Judge at Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court Flees Abroad with Huge Execution Funds Transferred Overseas” stated that just after the May Day holiday, an astonishing piece of news circulated in the legal circle in Beijing: “There was a big incident at the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court, where an assistant judge involved in execution fled with billions of execution funds and went to Japan.” The report was deleted a few hours after being published.
The report mentioned that the assistant judge involved was named Bai Bin, a post-90s person from Xinzhou, Shanxi, who started working at the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court Execution Division in 2014 and was a former assistant judge before the incident. Despite not having a high official rank, due to systemic loopholes in the execution process, he held crucial privileges in determining the flow of large amounts of funds.
According to sources familiar with the case, earlier this year Bai Bin had submitted a resignation to the court, but it had not been approved. Taking advantage of his position, he uploaded forged execution documents on the online system to gradually transfer the execution funds to his controlled overseas accounts. Before the incident, he had completed the fund transfer and obtained Greek citizenship, indicating that his destination after fleeing was likely Greece.