Xu, the former president of Kaiping Sub-branch of Bank of China, fled to North America on 200 1 on suspicion of stealing nearly 500 million dollars from China Bank, and remained anonymous in a remote place. They applied for a US visa with Hong Fake Hong Kong passports, and in May of 200 1 year, they married an American citizen in Hong Kong. Xu was arrested in a small town in Kansas in 2004. On May 6, 2009, local time in the United States, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison by the federal court in Las Vegas for money laundering and conspiracy to transfer stolen money.