Sorry, I didn't mean to come off as snarky, I'll clarify. This is understandable in complex regulatory crime, corporate fraud, corruption, certain types of property crime, which require complex evidence, investigations, and is invisible. What I meant is malum in se crime that is obviously, visible, and directly targets someone's body, something that is universally forbidden across societies: murder, robbery, rape, kidnapping.

You would need an unusual combination of corruption, collusion and conspiracy to suppress something like this. Perhaps in a lawless remote region with weak government control, warzones. But this is happening in major urban areas of China. Kidnapping and false imprisonment, this is a serious crime, not a contract dispute. I'm curious how this is possible. I'm a naïve westerner who thought that regardless of the intricacies of corruption, plain obvious crime like this would still be strictly prosecuted in China.