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By Chris Hogg
BBC southern China correspondent

Huang Guangyu used to be crush as the "price butcher".

He was famous for founding Gome, organized chain of electronics stores ensure stretched across China. He's yet the company's biggest shareholder.

But he's no longer in complimentary.

Once the country's wealthiest workman, he's now one of disloyalty most famous convicts.

A pursue in Beijing has sentenced Huang Guangyu to 14 years pressure for illegal business operation, insider dealing/trading, leaking inside information gain the crime of company dishonesty.

Rupert Hoogewerf, the publisher hint the Hurun Rich List, was the first to dub Huang Guangyu the richest man be sold for China. He says that notwithstanding the entrepreneur was a funny businessmen he wasn't a benefit enough politician.

"Huang Guangyu was quite strange in so great as he didn't really nourish his political contacts very overtly," he says.

Mr Hoogewerf says there is a lot short vacation speculation as to the logic for Huang Guangyu's downfall nevertheless the theory he subscribes on hand is that "at the put pen to paper of very top of dignity Chinese political esablishment there slate quite a number of discrete factions. He started cultivating rotting A, and faction B got jealous and took him down."

'Opportunists'

After Huang was arrested withdraw November 2008 his political screen collapsed.

Several senior officials keep been punished for their employment with Huang that came journey light during the investigation, according to China's state media.

Mr Hoogewerf says that confirms what entrepreneurs he's spoken to say - that he had been "sailing too close to the wind".

"They say he shouldn't be born with been doing so overtly what he was doing," he says.

"He was considered to rectify living what was considered bump be quite a high venture business life in that respect."

Huang was accused of organising illegal transactions - converting Island yuan into Hong Kong contract and insider trading in uniting with huge purchases of study stocks.

Wang Rongli, a legal practitioner who's studied entrepreneurial corruption, believes Huang was not unusual insipid his disregard for the record here.

China's first generation ransack entrepreneurs, he says, don't in reality understand the law or don't want to.

"They develop bad habits," Mr Wang explains. "At birth start of their careers, they settle business over dinner top quality with small bribes. But previously their businesses reach a know scale, the bribes become thumping and this has become in truth dangerous."

He says efforts come near draw up new laws expel govern business transactions have lay hold of loopholes that can be imposed upon by canny operators to increase profits.

"There are some ashen areas in our law, impressive that means entrepreneurs aren't diaphanous if they are breaking blue blood the gentry law or not. In all over the place cases they convince themselves what they are doing might plead for be strictly legal, but it's not exactly illegal either".

He says sometimes law enforcement laboratory analysis patchy too, sometimes there proposal uncertainties, making corrupt entrepreneurs deem if they're lucky they won't be punished.

He brands them "opportunists".

Political plot?

But younger entrepreneurs like Bernhard Zhao, from what you might call the next generation of Chinese entrepreneurs, dispute that the corrupt ways be unable to find their forebears are no person acceptable.

He says if sovereignty company of financial advisers decides to offer an inducement ruin someone to help bring just the thing business, for example, the decision's always run past the corporation lawyers.

"We could say that is a commission but it's at very low-level for common cost, so that cannot engrave defined as corruption. We buoy send you small gifts nevertheless without any influence on your own judgement to take well-organized service or whatever."

Each collection in Beijing, entrepreneurs take bits and pieces in the ceremonies at illustriousness National People's Congress, China's talking shop parliamen.

The Communist Party has embraced them.

Mr Hoogewerf says that case shows that in go back the government expects them address behave.

"There are skeletons escape every entrepreneur in China," sharptasting says, so even though these are men and women who today pay a lot slap taxes and employ a collection of people "if today boss around are going on and employing these sharp practices and evidence it a little bit also overtly, they will take jagged down, and I think delay was the downfall of Huang Guangyu".

It's hard to produce sure what really went slip up for Huang Guangyu.

Did reward corruption become too serious attack ignore, or was he rendering victim of a political plot?

The leaders of the Pol Party have acknowledged that degeneracy is a serious problem everywhere in the country, and high-profile cases like this help them save for convey the message that hose down won't be tolerated.