The Chinese police are as corrupt as Chinese society's lip service to Communism is hypocritical. Mr Gui's false identity didn't emerge in traffic court because bribes were taken to conceal it: but the case kept being reopened so more could be demanded; and eventually he fled. With no incentive for further concealment, the court discovered he was a Tiananmnen renunciate; thereupon finding him solely responsible for the accident, and liable to penalty. As he was no longer there to imprison, it supposedly bailed him on two years' probation, from which he was then said to have absconded.

When abducted from Thailand eleven years later, he was forced to say in a tv confession video that he'd voluntarily returned to China to fulfill this sentence. And four of his colleagues were arrested, then bailed to Hong Kong; so that they'd very publicly return to probation of their own. But the morality play fell apart when one of them, Lam Wing-kee, refused to, confirming his confession was forced.