Update | From stashes of gold to a 'pistol-shaped house': Chinese document details depths of officials' corruption
One cadre's illegal stash filled four trucks while another's illicit funds wore out four bill counters
Former general Gu Junshan allegedly embezzled more than 20 billion yuan (HK$25 billion) in public money, according to a document containing details of several recent corruption cases.
The document - a transcript of a Hebei prosecutor's lecture to local officials in January, which was reported by Caijing magazine - is available on the Hebei Federation of Trade Unions' website.
According to the transcript, Gu, former deputy logistics chief of the People's Liberation Army, built a pistol-shaped house in his hometown Puyang, Henan province, and filled it with so many valuable artefacts that it took four fully loaded trucks to cart them away when corruption investigators came down on him last year.
Luxury Moutai liquor produced exclusively for the military filled two trucks. Items made of gold, including a figurine of late leader Mao Zedong, were among his stash of illegal gains.
Gu was also said to have pocketed a cut of over 100 million yuan for selling a Shanghai military property worth 2.4 billion yuan.
He was charged last year with embezzlement, bribery, misuse of state funds and abuse of power, but it is not known if he has been convicted.
Another official, former National Energy Administration head Liu Tienan and his family held 12 foreign passports, the document said.