so i was a bodyguard for a Chinese celebrity who was accused of rape that's not clickbait it's the truth i will be telling you guys today all about this ridiculous situation and also hopefully give you a lot of insight into the plight of specifically women in the workplace in

China and well the best way to do it is just to jump right into it and give you a bit of an introduction i worked for this company you can see me there on one of the billboards that used to be plastered around the city called CCVIP and uh the main sort of

controlling company was this company called Shanmu and you can see the guy in the middle there his name is and he was the entrepreneur who started this whole training center thing now um i've got a lot to talk about this guy and everything that went on but let's just

give you an introduction to what was going on in the company this i cannot explain to you how big this particular company was around China it's one of the first entrepreneurial successes in China and you could look at it as being a company as well known

in China as perhaps Tesla is well known in the west it's such a huge company everybody knew the name of this company everybody knew the founder and looked up to him in fact there's a thing called the New Year's Gala right which happens

where there we go sorry that's what i was looking for happens once a year during the Chinese New Year it is the most important televised event in the country and i guess it's kind of like if you took the Oscars and every other big

award show in the west and you roll them all into one it's a big thing that everybody, pretty much everyone, watches during the Chinese New Year and he's like an honored guest for six years in a row, he's like I said, incredibly well-known.

This guy was as famous as Elon Musk, if not more, in China. Okay, I worked for him. Now, this is my second real job in China. The first, I was working as a kindergarten teacher teaching English, and then I was desperately trying to improve my situation and within a year I

had found a job at what's called CCVIP. Uh, there I am uh handing out certificates and things like that. This is the kind of class you'd have these little classes in the small Shan Moon Peshwin branches and I would go around to all the

branches, but mainly I would teach in the big uh headquarters in Shenzhen, the CCVIP headquarters. Let's get past these, this is relevant, I'll get to it in a minute, but there we go, there's the guy, that's his uh logo, Shawn Moon Patient.

And you could see his face plastered over all the cities in China. He had branches in the smallest to the biggest cities. He even had some international branches in London and America. Now, the reason why you're seeing all these women dressed up like flight attendants,

this is where things seemed very strange. I enjoyed the working environment when I first got there. That's why I actually wanted to work there. As you walked in, it looked very professional, it looked very clean. You know, everybody was dressed well. They required the staff to wear suits, which

of course, is totally up my alley and it's what I wanted. I wanted to finally go from being a kindergarten teacher back to my normal persona, which is a guy wearing a suit, you know, and I enjoyed the idea of this place. It was all very well structured, it was a

bit weird and the more I got to know about the place, the more weird it got to be honest. You would walk into the entrance here and you would have to bow before you enter the main, you know, the main thing over there and you'd have to sign in the register

and there was a bunch of weird stuff going on. For instance, if you arrived uh more than a minute late you would get a fine, you'd be fined and some of your pay would be docked. And if you didn't bow you would be fined and they had people watching you the

whole time, you know. And of course, there were CCTV cameras and microphones all throughout the offices, which is also a bit weird. But what really started to freak me out, let's go all the way back, was this whole idea of the women that worked

there. They had to dress in these like uniforms. They were always in these uniforms and you never saw them out of them. They had to, well, I mean, see some of these ridiculous things. Um, man, I still have a pack. He had these like playing cards, like poker cards, you

know, playing normal cards, and he had all the like sexy poses of the women that worked there on the, in on each card, and he used to give that out as free merch to students and stuff. It was very bizarre, but these women had to adhere to

something called Shunmu basic law okay now Shunmu basic law I'm going to give you some of the things that you had to adhere to if you worked for this company first of all most of the women that worked there were from rural northern parts of China so they'd be

brought in and China has this um this kind of residence hukou it's called the hukou program so if you are born in say a rural area and you move to a big city you cannot get any of the benefits of living in that city

so for instance you you can't get schooling or you can't you know this it's a very restrictive system so they'd bring them in from the rural areas keep them in these dormitories and it was like a little bubble they weren't allowed to leave the dormitories

they weren't allowed to have a social life outside of the dormitories they weren't allowed to go out and mingle with people they weren't allowed to fraternize with the staff they weren't allowed to have boyfriends and not allowed to have relationships

well fall in love within the first two years of working there some stuff anyway they would have forced etiquette training every morning you see how the like the woman in the middle there is sitting they would have to learn how to walk and I watched them do this they'd have to

bring out a chair put it down sit down in a certain way they would have to walk in a very specific way and do all these like um kind of bizarre things but they would have to do that every morning it's like forced etiquette training and if they messed up they would get

fined, which was, you know, a bit strange obviously, you have to bow when you come in, you are not allowed to be late at all, that kind of thing, that's whatever, that's kind of normal company rules, but things started to get a little bit weirder the

more I got to know the girls, the more I got to talk to the staff and and so on, I found out things like, for instance, that they had cameras in the dormitories, they even had cameras in the dormitory bathrooms, and apparently they were

assured that the only people that ever look at those cameras are female security staff, but obviously that's probably not the case, if you find out more about this guy as you will, um, they had to all change their names to a common surname and he would

designate them specific names, so every employee, the woman employee that worked for the company would be given a specific name to, of his choosing, starting to sound a little weird here, it gets worse, um, they would be weighed by the matron of the dormitory once a month and

if they gained weight, they would get fined, okay, they would have to do these weird and I've got some pictures of, of some of these uh, let's get through that's the main building that I used to work in, by the way, um, I'm just trying, I know I've got some

some pictures in here of, of one of these, yeah, like this, they would have these like um fashion shows where the girls, you can see some of them dressed up there and some of them in their normal uniform, they would have to get dressed up, okay, into like whatever weird things and they

would go there he is over there and they would go basically walk in a runway strut strut their stuff type thing and based on their performance they would either get a bonus or they would get fined all right yeah more weird stuff uh here's here's the

canteen that they would eat in I actually know all of the girls that you see in this picture and um you know this is this is why it's taken me a very long time to talk about this for a number of reasons and well I'll it's basically down to the

fact that I know most of these people and it's an absolutely terrible and tragic thing that happened and uh you know it's it's been enough time now that I can talk about it but we'll get into that a little a little more so how did I become a

bodyguard for this guy I went there and I worked as a teacher you can see behind me this is a picture of Xi'an okay those of you who don't know Xi'an it's the city where the Terracotta Warriors are based it's very

used to be the capital of China you know a very long time ago I quite quickly rose up in the ranks from just a teacher and I was promoted to the vice principal of the CCPI CCVIP training center and obviously the boss liked the way I

looked because he kept using me on the promotional material I was on the TV advert so you may have seen a glimpse of that right in the beginning of this um I was used in the flyers whenever there was a big sort of uh press event or something like that he

would drag me along for that and this was still early days I still didn't know what was going on and this one in particular was rather strange It was a Christmas Eve of 2007 and he had this massive event happening in Xi'an right So this is him briefing me in the room

as to what's going to be happening and they went down to one of the branches of this Shan Moon thing in the heart of uh Xi'an over there and it was this big giveaway big promotion thing People were coming to get books signed and get his autograph

you can see me standing up there like a douchebag and he said that he wanted me to be his bodyguard and I had to go for like a week's training of bodyguard etiquette which was like the most ridiculous stuff like I had to learn all that thing about like

when you open the car door how you have to put your hand to you know protect the the VIP's head as they get out and all this kind of nuts I had to learn all this and he demanded that I wear my sunglasses at night so don't

don't give me [ __ ] for that that wasn't my choice okay I was working for my boss all right um and uh I had to basically stand around as you can see in these pictures and make sure that nobody tried anything He

was he was incredibly famous okay um in fact if you saw previously if I'll just go go get it I know I keep going back and forth bear with me I want to show you a particular shot again that's me with the staff at that was at the main headquarters over

there let's go find this I know everyone in these pictures all of these women I met them personally and I know them and that's like I said one of the tragedies of all this is it's a very personal thing um here so we arrived at the airport

this was in um I believe this was in uh Jinan maybe whatever we went and I just remember arriving in the airport people were recognizing him left and right because he's such a well-known celebrity in China we walk outside in like garlands of

flowers he's arranged he arranged for his staff wherever he went this included whenever he would land at the airport there would be the staff from whatever local branch in that city would be waiting for him to put you know give him a bouquet of flowers and put garlands like you can see

putting a bloody garland of flowers over my neck over there and all this big welcoming committee to to make a big scene wherever he went this guy's a like a crazy egomaniac megalomaniac type person you know what I mean anyway let's

get back to this bodyguard thing so um as you can see there was a huge amount of people trying to get in to get his autograph because he was incredibly famous right and he did make a huge impact on a lot of people's

lives because he offered basically cheap training uh his training centers would offer computer training they would offer uh different language training so they had Japanese courses in Korean and all sorts of different things but English being one of the bigger things that they did English training so you can see this

massive crowd of people and that's why I wanted to be his bodyguard to make sure that everything was okay and he would have me stand out there. You have no idea how cold I was. This was like Christmas Eve in Xi'an. It was there was

snow on the ground in some places and I was just wearing that suit. I had nothing underneath that. It's the first time I was in snow. I didn't even know what to expect. So it was a cold, cold time. But um, he had me interact with the public

and take photos with people and I had to, you know, whenever he came out to sign, I had to go stand with him and I obviously address the crowd and do all these kinds of things which you can see from the photographic evidence. You know, when I talk about China guys, I speak

from experience because I was there. I can tell you about what happened. I don't make stories up. I don't make things up. It's all my own personal experiences that I'm recounting and this is one that uh gave me a lot of insight into a very darker side of China which

persists today and it's important that we discuss it today. Um, yeah, you can see the the date stamp even over down there. You can see it's 2007, um, Christmas Eve. So I would have to stand there to make sure no one tried anything.

One guy did get aggressive actually that I had to push away because he thought that um, I thought this guy was um Japanese because the Shanmu name, it's not a real name, it's something he made up and it looks like a Japanese name, Yamaki. You

know because of the two characters so somebody thought and many people actually thought that he was Japanese because of the name and one guy got really aggressive like "Hey, you're Japanese, aren't you?" type thing and I had to push him away. That was about the only eventful thing

that happened uh with me being this uh bodyguard of his for the night but um you can see obviously at this point I had no clue as to what this guy was really up to. I'd only been working there for uh I don't know a couple of months, not even

a year yet when all this nonsense uh was going on with this this particular thing. You can see me having to push people away and stuff here. So now now that you've seen more or less a little bit about the guy, he's super famous, you can tell

he's being mobbed for his autograph, you know. He was known around the entire country uh I'd like you to notice also that I have a little badge on my suit there. That's something that you had to wear to work and if you forgot your badge you

would be fined a huge amount of money uh so you had to first of all you had to pay for your own badge out of your own paycheck and then you had to wear it whenever you were representing the company or in the company and if you didn't wear that

badge you get a massive fine. This guy is like a crazy megalomaniac anyway, so I'm just going to go back to show um like these glamour photos he'd have these pictures that he'd go and get taken of all the girls that worked there

like I said he'd make calendars and he'd make all these weird things and it all seemed very strange now he that the first time honestly that uh I suspected anything was going wrong is like I said I was good friends with most of the staff there they were not

allowed to you know be social outside of the workplace um I just want to get back to the picture of me with some of them there um they were not allowed to socialize so for instance I couldn't me and the other there were other foreign teachers working there at the

time we were all very close friends and we wanted to invite them out to come and have lunch with us for instance during office hours because you know you get a lunch break we wanted to invite them because we became close friends with all of the

staff working there and we wanted to invite them out to go and have lunch for instance or go have dinner maybe go for a drink and they never were allowed to come and you know hang out with us they weren't allowed to leave the office they weren't allowed to

be anywhere other than the dormitories or the office so it was very strange and of course it reeks a lot of a cult and to be honest it's pretty much like operated exactly like a cult uh when I think back on how this was but you know I was still

very naive still didn't really know what was going on in China really as far as a lot of things were concerned but the first time that I suspected anything was wrong is one of the girls who was a good friend of mine and a good friend of all the staff um

She came into the office bawling her eyes out like crazy, and she couldn't contain it. She went to the back behind the front desk there, and I, me being the vice principal at the time, I thought I, you know, was very self-important. You

know about this, of course. I went back there, and I was like, "What's going on? What can I do to help?" And she didn't want to see me, she didn't want to talk to me. Some of the other girls, they were consoling her,

and they basically told me that it's okay, they know what's going on, and I should just uh leave her alone. She'll be okay soon. Now, she had just been told to go and clean the boss's apartment. Okay, and this, this is back in 2000, must

have been 2007, 2008 maybe. So, she'd been told to go and clean the boss's apartment, okay, and um she came back crying like this, and I couldn't understand what was going on. And, and of course, like, it's a bit weird that

part of their duties as being like staff, and they're supposed to be like managers or teachers or whatever they were, that one of their duties would be to go and clean the boss's apartment. It's a bit dodgy. I mean, and I always got dodgy vibes from

this guy. He would get some of the stuff, would go into his office, like a staff member would be called into his office and be there for a very long time. He didn't spend a lot of time in the office, in the main uh office by

the way, but whenever he did come in, everyone was like, you know, on walking around on pins and needles and having to bow everywhere and be all like, you know, careful and very nervous and so on. Um, and things were just weird. But this whole thing about the woman coming

in crying her eyes out like that really caught me off guard, and that like, I really at that point, I knew something was up, something wasn't right. And it happened again and new staff would come in, and some of the staff that had been coming and bawling their eyes out would

be transferred away and you wouldn't see them again. And it was, you know, pretty obvious that something very nefarious was going on. Now we had a break in this where one of the staff members who was a little bit more western educated than the other, she had um

you know, she obviously because a lot of the staff, their English wasn't very good, and uh, you know, one of them happened to have had some or other background in in studying um abroad or had been, I don't know, been involved in something to do with Australia.

And she had just started working there, but she wasn't one of the normal types, not one of the um, you know, rural girls that he would normally come in. And she'd been bought in because of her English language ability or something like that. You know, there was a specific reason she'd been

bought in, and she confided in one of the other foreign teachers who then confided it, confided uh, in me, and we all kind of got together with her and some of the other staff, and we were told this what was going on. And that was that he

was raping the girls there, um, and he'd been doing it for years and that it was very common knowledge amongst all the staff and all of the staff, every single staff member that I knew, every single one of these girls here that I know, every single one of these girls over

here that I knew and had known for a very long time, every single one of them had been raped by him and it was part of their training, it was part of their, their duties of being part of this weird cult [ __ ] that he had going on, every

single one of these girls, you know, and um, it's it's one of those, those weird situations and this is where there's a big cultural difference between the West and uh, you know, Asia, not just China but Asia, is that it's part of the societal psyche that if

a man becomes powerful that he's going to have like mistresses and have like a harem, it goes back to the days of the emperors with their concubines and their huge amounts of harems and stuff and so it's almost socially acceptable in a way that if a

man is powerful and rich and so on that he will have many uh mistresses on the side and this translates into the modern day um, I mean the man who's on the money, old murderous Mao, he's well known to have been very

promiscuous and run around with a billion different women and even a pedophile and stuff like that, but yet he's still praised as being one of the greatest leaders of China and he's still on the money, it's one of those things and so

a lot of it's dismissed as oh that's just kind of how it should be you know um these poor women are being indoctrinated into this weird cult-like situation where they're forced far away from home to stay in these dormitories and not

have a social life not be able to talk to anyone and they're forced to follow the whims of this madman where they have to dress and walk and behave in a certain way the way that he wants them to behave and they get fined

and you know it's it gets even worse than this because this guy is a billionaire okay his net worth at the time was uh conservatively about 150 million US dollars over a billion RMB was just a that's a conservative um estimate this guy's super rich he had

connections with everyone he had connections within the local um public security bureau so if the girls ever did try to reach out and try to complain to the police he had eyes in the police too and I know this for a fact because when one of the foreign staff's visa

got screwed up because and it wasn't it wasn't her fault it was actually the staff over there they decided well they didn't read the fine print properly or something and the the date expired so she'd actually overstayed her visa he just went into the public security

bureau went into the back rooms and you know obviously talked to whoever he knows and came out with a new visa and her passport just like that without having to go through due process and that kind of thing so I know for a fact that he had his connections

in the public security bureau um so what happened what k what brought this all to an end you know what actually happened that brought this um this uh ridiculous man this disgusting man to an end by the way I've talked about this in the past

and I just want to explain what's going on in this photo now uh before we continue when the Sichuan earthquakes happened um you know those terrible 2008 Sichuan earthquakes that resulted in like eight hundred thousand or whatever it was some 80 how much

like whatever a huge amount of people died uh ridiculous it was a tragic tragic situation um he set this up that we all stand me and the the staff all stand in a row he that money that's in our hands he gave us each he's like gave us each

about 500 RMB he said stand for the photo this is the little donation box and it even says it's for the Sichuan earthquake um you know relief fund or something like that photo was taken he then took all the money back from all of us put it in his pocket and walked

out you know that's just uh how China works it's all about image it's all about face not actually about doing anything um but yeah I just wanted to bring that up because I've spoken about this exact photo and I just happened to find it

while I was looking through through all these these old photos of my time there working for this disgusting rapist so what happened well I must be completely clear what had happened uh before this this this is now in 2010 I had been

fired, and I'll tell you why I was fired. Me and some of the other, um, foreign staff had been going secretly to the girls working there, and we had been trying to convince them to go to the police to report what he'd been doing. And of course, word got out that we were

doing this, and that basically caused me to get fired and others to get fired too. Not only that, but just I started to really despise the man, and I was standing up against things that he was trying to do. And, uh, there was this absolutely ridiculous situation with one of the

female foreign staff, um, where he'd propositioned her and, um, to be a mistress and things like that. And then there was another one where, um, they, the one that they screwed up her visa actually, where they basically were trying to force her to stay in the company, and she

wanted to leave and she couldn't handle it. So I stood up for her, and because I stood up directly, stood up to him, of course that's not what you do to a crazy megalomaniac like this. I was fired pretty much on the spot, and

I was a Bodyguard for a Chinese Serial Rapist

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The narrator was a bodyguard for a Chinese celebrity accused of rape.

The narrator worked for CCVIP, a subsidiary of Shanmu, a large and influential Chinese company.

Shanmu's founder was a well-known entrepreneur.

Shanmu was a highly successful company, comparable to Tesla in the West.

The founder was an honored guest at the Chinese New Year Gala for six years.

Working Conditions and Strange Practices at Shanmu

The narrator's previous job was as a kindergarten teacher.

The narrator taught at CCVIP headquarters in Shenzhen.

Female employees wore uniforms and were featured in promotional materials in suggestive poses.

Strict rules and surveillance were in place, including fines for lateness and failure to bow.

Many female employees were from rural areas, lived in company dormitories, and had limited social freedom.

Employees underwent forced etiquette training.

Cameras were installed in dormitories, including bathrooms.

Female employees were required to change their names.

Employees were weighed monthly, and weight gain resulted in fines.

Becoming a Bodyguard and Early Suspicions

The narrator was promoted to vice principal and featured in company promotions.

The narrator was asked to be the founder's bodyguard.

The bodyguard training was unusual and included wearing sunglasses at night.

A female employee cried after cleaning the boss's apartment, raising the narrator's suspicions.

The narrator observed other strange occurrences, including employees spending long periods in the boss's office.

A more Westernized employee revealed that the boss was raping the female staff.

Cultural Context and the Rape Allegations

The narrator discusses the cultural acceptance of powerful men having mistresses in China.

The female employees were isolated and controlled, creating a cult-like environment.

The boss's wealth and connections hindered any attempts to report the abuse.

The boss misused donations intended for earthquake relief.

The narrator and other foreign staff tried to convince employees to report the abuse, leading to their dismissal.

A new employee was raped by the boss, and her period being a key factor in the legal case.

The boss used kidnapping and blackmail threats against victims.

The boss's claim of consensual encounters was challenged in court.

The victim reported the rape to the police after talking to her boyfriend.

The case gained attention due to social media before stricter censorship.

The boss went on the run, shaved his beard, and was eventually caught.

The victim received minimal compensation despite the severity of the crime.

Many former employees were reluctant to come forward due to the boss's influence.

Several cases were dismissed due to lack of evidence of non-consensual sex.

The narrator highlights the difficulties faced by women in China regarding workplace harassment and rape.

The boss likely served less time than his sentence due to connections and influence.

Information about the case has been scrubbed from the Chinese internet.

The boss's wife took over the business, and his image was removed from advertising.

The narrator emphasizes the contrast between China's economic progress and the struggles of ordinary people.

The narrator expresses the deep impact of the events on those involved.

I was a Bodyguard for a Chinese Serial Rapist

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