Court ruling details cross-provincial kidnapping of “Hui Jian,” who had reported Liu Ren
Anti-fraud blogger “Hui Jian” (real name Wu Kai), who publicly reported Liu Ren, president of the Anhui Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, was abducted in Huizhou, Guangdong, in November 2024 by people posing as police and then transferred to Jiangxi, where he was beaten to death. Recently, media reports disclosed that the Guangdong High People’s Court’s second-instance ruling upheld the original verdict and rejected the appeal.
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Anti-fraud blogger “Hui Jian” (real name Wu Kai), who publicly reported Liu Ren, president of the Anhui Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, was abducted in Huizhou, Guangdong, in November 2024 by people posing as police and then transferred to Jiangxi, where he was beaten to death. Recently, media reports disclosed that the Guangdong High People’s Court’s second-instance ruling upheld the original verdict and rejected the appeal.
According to Jiemian News, in October 2024, an overseas individual published a paid kidnapping assignment on Telegram. The target was Wu Kai, who had long posted information about overseas telecom fraud. The instructions were to force him to reveal the people behind his WeChat public account and delete related articles. The bounty rose from 300,000 yuan to 1 million yuan. On November 10, Wu Kai was forcibly taken away by several people in Daya Bay, Huizhou, and was moved through Huidong, Heyuan and Ganzhou, Jiangxi, among other places. He was beaten and interrogated along the way. On November 11, he was abandoned on a hillside in Dingnan County. Two days later, villagers found his body. Forensic authorities determined that Wu Kai died from intracranial hemorrhage caused by trauma to the head and face.
In August 2024, Wu Kai had publicly reported Liu Ren for alleged casino-related violent lending, telecom-fraud compounds and other violent crimes. Liu Ren issued a statement denying the allegations at the time. After Wu Kai went missing, rumors circulated online that he had been arrested for extortion. Available reports show that he actually died in the kidnapping case. In a 2026 notice, China’s Ministry of Public Security said Liu Ren had been repatriated to China and was subjected to compulsory measures on suspicion of operating telecom-fraud compounds, unlawful detention and intentional injury, with the case still under investigation.
Publicly available reports have not established a link between Liu Ren and Wu Kai’s killing. In the first-instance trial, Zhao Bing was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for intentional injury, and other people involved in the case also received sentences. The second-instance court upheld the original verdict.
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