How did the rich man get stuffed into an iron cage less than 1 meter square when he failed to collect his debt?

When it comes to the iron cage murder case in Zhejiang, people are shocked that an economic dispute can eventually develop into an intentional homicide case. Who would have thought that an iron cage less than one meter square would become the death cage of a rich man. On June 10, 2012, 44-year-old businessman Zhang was picked up from a hotel in Hangzhou and illegally detained for nearly three months due to a debt dispute. He was taken to Yongjia and Qingshan, where he was killed and his body was thrown into the water. It makes everyone very sad that their belief in the rule of law has been ignored and trampled on by some people.

The victim Zhang is a businessman from Inner Mongolia, and his family owns real businesses such as a rice factory and a hotel. When he was young, he worked as an outbound smuggling agent and loan shark. Because he likes gambling and is very addicted to gambling, he met Hu in a casino and borrowed tens of millions of yuan from him for gambling. Hu is a native of Wenzhou. In his early years, he used his connections to travel abroad many times and made a lot of money as a "snakehead". After 2000, he opened a financing investment company in his hometown. Under the banner of financing, he made loan sharks everywhere and also got involved in the gambling business. Affected by the financial crisis in 2012, he had financial problems. He asked Zhang for the money he owed but never paid it back, so he took a different approach and kidnapped Zhang on June 10, 2012.

Hangzhou police received a call on June 11, 2012. Zhang’s family received a call from Hu, demanding a ransom of 50 million to repay Zhang’s debt. After his wife called the police, she transferred 6.2 million to Hu's card, but the money was still not enough. Hu and his men took Zhang away and illegally detained and beat him for three months. On September 1, 2012, Hu ordered his men to stuff Zhang into an iron cage that was no more than one meter square, transport him to the Qingtian Bridge and throw him into the Tankeng Reservoir. On March 20, 2013, Hu fled to Thailand and was captured by Hangzhou police and Thai public security. After being arrested, Hu refused to plead guilty and did not tell where the body was dumped. Hangzhou police began a long search for the body. On December 28, 2014, the police finally found Zhang's body in the 80-meter-deep water of Beishan Bridge, and the case finally came to a conclusion. On March 16, 2015, the First Court of Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court. The verdict was pronounced on the case. The defendant Hu was found guilty of illegal detention and sentenced to three years in prison; guilty of intentional homicide, he was sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life. The two crimes were concurrently punished with death. Of his two men, one was sentenced to death with a two-year suspended sentence, and the other was sentenced to life imprisonment. After more than 900 days of unremitting struggle and the most difficult salvage operation in 83 meters of deep water, the action team of the Hangzhou Xiacheng Public Security Bureau in charge of the case finally found Zhang, whose body had been buried at the bottom of the lake for 28 months, and revealed the cruel nature of the crime and its Bad criminals get the justice they deserve, salute to our public security heroes.