Lu Fanxi, the man behind some of China's catchy pop songs, was detained by Chinese police on Feb. 1, after the country's largest internet video site and his employer Youku Tudou accused him of corruption.
The matter emerged in the news when an internal email from Heyi Film, a Youku Tudou's film production subsidiary, became public in the Chinese press. The message exposed that an internal audit had disclosed "serious suspicion in certain production projects."
From the message displayed in the email, the company said it knew that their former employee Lu was suspected of exploiting his position to take part in illegal and criminal activities, and that he had been taken away by the police to help with the investigation.
Credible sources within the Youku Tudou told Variety that the company had tipped off the authorities about Lu and the concern about him leaving the company last July. It is not, however, clear when he got detained.
Lu served as the president of peer-generated content at Youku Tudou, and was famous for producing content like "Little Apple," a much-played hit which was used in the movie "Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon." He was one of the most prominent figures in China's rapid-growing video business and is currently credited with the rise of the Chopstick Brothers.
Following a crackdown in China's ever booming media industry, there have been numerous cases similar to that of Lu. In July 2015, Patrick Liu Chunning, former Tencent executive and Alibaba Digital Entertainment Group head, was revealed to have been arrested on similar charges of corruption, First FT reported.
Sometime later, other former employees at Chinese Internet giant Tencent also got detained. Even the 17th richest person in China Guo Guangchang did not escape the long arm of the law, when he got involved with related charges.
Due to such issues, the anti-corruption drive has been a major thing of the Chinese regime since 2012 when Xi Jinping became president. The campaign has now been extended to military and state-owned enterprises as opposed to its concentration on particular sectors before. As reports reveal, wrongdoers are often uncovered at operations like the China Central television, altogether with the companies and people that had business dealings with them.
Here is a clip of the ChopStick Brothers;
