Since we're getting straight to the point, and even more so in August with heat and flies, we don't know who the owner of the real estate company Evergrande Group is, who is Chinese. And by this I mean that if the company is large and Chinese at the same time, it is obligatory to call it "the Chinese giant". Well, this gentleman, whose identity we don't know, "internationally known as Hui Ka-yan", says ARA has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes related to real estate fraud. In China, they don't mess around. "He was under house arrest since 2023 and in April he pleaded guilty to the charges against him".
This house arrest thing has me fascinated. Of course, if you're a petty thief who stole a mobile phone, house arrest might not be possible because you might not have a home. But if you're Hui Ka-yan, house arrest can be a marvel. You have a house worthy of the Chinese real estate giant you are. With a pool, service, wine cellar, and ballroom. You surely have a gym and miles of forest to run in with your bodyguards. Who wants to go out, having all this?
You don't have to go out, you don't have to go out and socialize. You have what you want. Books, movies, music... It's true that you can't go to the theatre, or to restaurants, but surely – rich as you are – you can hire companies and chefs to give you a two-for-one at home. You don't have to go see anyone. Everyone can come to see you. They don't send you to get bread, you don't have to take out the trash. It seems like a completely enviable life to me. Therefore, that after such a beautiful thing they condemn you to life imprisonment seems very cruel to me. Should a man who made money from bricks live in a hole three by three meters, with total shade, and without a jacuzzi?
