On June 4th, mainland financial news website Caixin Online revealed that a post was made on May 1st eve by a 90s generation assistant judge working at the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court, Bai Bin, who took a huge sum of money and fled to Japan. The article was taken down later that day. This incident has sparked discussions on overseas social media platforms.
Caixin Online titled their report “Assistant Judge at Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court Flees Abroad With Huge Execution Funds Transferred Overseas”, indicating that shortly after the end of the May 1st holiday in 2025, a shocking news spread in the legal circles of Beijing: “Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court had a major incident, where an assistant judge took away hundreds of millions in execution funds and escaped to Japan.”
According to reports, on the eve of May 1st, an assistant judge at the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court, a person in their 90s named Bai Bin from Xinzhou, Shanxi, entered the court’s enforcement bureau in the summer of 2014 to work as an assistant judge.
Bai Bin graduated from a law school at a university in Beijing, and the official website of the school of law and the China Law Society published a speech by the dean of the school of law at the graduation ceremony of the 2014 class, specifically mentioning the outstanding performance of this year’s undergraduate students, “students who went directly to work were also in good units … Bai Bin went to the newly established Third Intermediate People’s Court.” However, the article on the China Law Society’s website mentioning Bai Bin going to the newly established Third Intermediate People’s Court has been deleted, and no information about Bai Bin can be found on the official website of the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court.
Caixin quoted insiders saying that at the beginning of the year, Bai Bin submitted his resignation to the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court but was not approved. Bai Bin had been preparing for his escape, transferring all the money abroad and obtaining Greek nationality.
It is alleged that the incident occurred because his girlfriend boasted to her friends, leading to a privacy breach and subsequent exposure, leading to Bai Bin fleeing to Japan before May 1st with his entire family. The amount involved in the case varies in rumors, some say 130 million yuan, others around 200 million yuan, and some even close to 300 million yuan. Interviewees told Caixin that the huge amount transferred overseas by Bai Bin came from the execution funds of one or more illegal fundraising scams.
Public data shows that execution funds refer to the funds (or property) applied for execution by the parties based on effective legal documents, including compensation, goods, liquidated damages, repayment of loans, litigation costs, appraisal fees, and expert assessment fees, among other expenses. Since the executed person needs to pay the execution funds to the court, the court transfers them to the winning party on behalf. There is no uniform rule for the management of execution funds, and courts at all levels generally collect execution funds through setting up execution fund accounts. Cases of intentional or unintentional delays in paying the execution funds often occur.
It is reported that the Supreme People’s Court of the Communist Party of China has formulated regulations on the management of execution funds in the courts. Caixin pointed out that Bai Bin had exploited these regulations in the specific implementation, leading to a major case.
The report also quoted sources saying that Bai Bin had been in the enforcement bureau for ten years, and although he was an assistant enforcement judge, many administrative assistants had more power than judges. Bai Bin discovered loopholes in the relevant regulations during enforcement, transferring each execution fund to his personal account through online execution orders.
The report also mentioned that Zhu Ping, then a standing committee member of the Xicheng District Committee, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and director of the Supervisory Commission, “parachuted” into the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court at the end of May 2025, and officially became the deputy director on the 30th, potentially having a connection to the Bai Bin incident.
Additionally, on the same day Zhu Ping was appointed as the deputy director of the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court, Zhang Meixin, the former deputy director of the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court, was announced to be under investigation. Zhang had also worked in a judicial enforcement position at the court and served as the deputy director of the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court from September 2015 until retirement. The report mentioned that the announcement of Zhang Meixin’s investigation came after Bai Bin’s incident, and it is unknown whether there is any connection between the two.
Currently, besides the original text on Caixin Online being deleted, images from the report circulating on Weibo have been gradually blocked and deleted. However, some netizens have saved screenshots to overseas platforms, and some overseas websites have republished the text after converting it to images and text.
This incident has sparked heated discussions on online platforms, with many people raising questions:
– “Being able to enter a court right after graduation clearly indicates a strong family background.”
– “Didn’t the judge surrender their passport?”
– “Wasn’t the amount secretly divided among certain individuals and pushed onto someone?”
– “Taking the blame.”
– “When I saw this in May, I thought it was a rumor because he transferred execution funds to his personal account. Isn’t it difficult to transfer such a large amount of money to a personal bank account without being questioned?”
– “I’m curious: how did his huge funds get transferred abroad? Even us common folks struggle to transfer tens of thousands of yuan in the bank, facing various inquiries and checks, needing flight tickets, and reasons, often resulting in failed transfers.”
– “How did his immense funds get moved abroad? The court is so wealthy.”
– “Illegal fundraising execution funds – this is the life-saving money of so many families ruined by it, even more despicable than Qu Wan Ting’s mother.”
– “Having countless unregulated privileges, playing with people and money.”
– “Under the rule of the Communist Party, is there justice? Under the dictatorship, disasters are everywhere.”
– “A dynasty has reached this point…”