Laundering bribes through family members is an ancient tradition. That’s why Xi Jinping got his hackles up when Bloomberg exposed the hundreds of millions dollars his relatives were worth *before* he became capo di tutti i capi in China.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-not-to-get-kicked-out-of-china
It would not surprise me if Xi were worth tens of billions today. Not because he’s necessarily particularly greedy, but all hierarchies need to reward people at every level to temper their ambitions. In absolutist tyrannies, this is even more important, as disgruntled subordinates can have you killed, as happened to Oda Nobunaga when he slighted Akechi Mitsuhide.
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