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Six men have been jailed in [/news/china/index.html China] over a botched assassination plot in which a series of reluctant hitmen passed the job down the line until one of them blew their cover. <br>Businessman Tan Youhui paid two million yuan (£218,000) to have his rival Wei Mou eliminated but the hitman he hired proved a poor choice. <br>The assassin, Xi Guangan,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-cong-vien-khung-long-thanh-tu-son-3-ngay.html tour nam ninh] farmed out the job to another hitman - an act of outsourcing which repeated itself three times with the fee declining each time. <br>Eventually, the job passed to a fifth contractor, Ling Xiansi, who gave the game away by meeting with the target in a cafe and trying to persuade him to fake his own death. <br>         Guilty: The hitmen are presented at a court in China where they were found guilty of attempted murder over a botched assassination plot they kept contracting out to each other <br>By the time the job passed to the fifth hitman, each one had taken a cut of the money and Ling was offered only 100,000 yuan (£11,000) for the killing. <br>[http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=Ling%20chickened Ling chickened] out and told Wei there was a price on his head.  <br>   RELATED ARTICLES  [# Previous] [# 1] [# Next]     [/news/article-7600399/Chinese-pet-cafe-dyes-dogs-black-white-make-look-like-pandas.html  Pet café owner dyes his six Chow Chow dogs black and white...] [/news/article-7599941/Whistleblower-escaped-Chinese-education-camp-reveals-horrors.html  Whistleblower who escaped Chinese 're-education camp'...]    <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>The intended target agreed to pose with a staged photo in which he was gagged and his hands were tied. <br>The hitman used the photos to claim that he had carried out the assassination job as requested. <br>He later told police, who investigated the whole chain - but the six men were initially found not guilty. <br>         Courtroom drama: After a long-running legal saga the five hitmen and the businessman have finally been convicted of attempted murder<br>That was unusual in itself, in a country where courts have a 99 per cent conviction rate.  <br>The legal saga has been running since 2016 and a retrial has lasted three years. <br>But last week a court in Nanning announced the five hitmen and the businessman had finally been convicted of attempted murder. <br>The businessman who originally ordered the job was jailed for five years while the hitmen received prison terms between two and four years.   <br>Youhui had been locked in a legal dispute with his rival's firm in 2013 and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-cong-vien-khung-long-thanh-tu-son-3-ngay.html tour nam ninh] hoped to eliminate the other businessman.   <br>