Nooks and crannies where dirty cadres stash the cash
Fish ponds, cesspits and paddy fields are among the places officials have secreted their ill-gotten gains, according to a mainland media report
Gold jewellery stuffed into a fish, deposit slips hidden inside a belt, piles of cash stashed under gas pipes - when it comes to hiding money, corrupt mainland officials are nothing if not creative.
Among them was the former chief of police in Chongqing, Wen Qiang, who was said to have hidden 20 million yuan (HK$25.4 million) by burying it under a fish pond.
The stash was the biggest haul allegedly found in an anti-corruption crackdown carried out by Wen's successor Wang Lijun and his boss, the disgraced former party chief of the metropolis, Bo Xilai , and the seizure was often used to justify their campaign against criminal gangs. Bo and Wang were both later jailed for graft and abuse of power.
Hu Fangyu, the former vice-chairman of the political advisory body in Changshun county, Guizhou province, liked to keep the evidence of his corruption a little closer.