In China, one family married each other 23 times (6 photos)

First, a man from Zhejiang Province divorced to marry his daughter-in-law, then left his daughter-in-law for a second daughter-in-law. Then he married his cousin. What kind of Santa Barbara do they have in Zhejiang?!





This is not because no other family lives in his village. The Pan family of 11 people did not marry anyone but each other, and in just two weeks they divorced and married 23 times!

What kind of horror was happening there?



Imagine that they are all Chinese there. So replacing Mason three times would be much easier!

And all because the local authorities decided to competently resettle residents from dilapidated housing as part of the restoration of the village. And the Lishui city government issued one 40-meter apartment per family, if it has no other property.

The main thing is that it is a separate family and has time to submit an application before April 10.





Lishui is a cool place, albeit small by Chinese standards, only 2 million people

The authorities thought that the limited application time would protect them from fraud attempts, but the cunning Chinese would not be deterred.

Complex family scheme

The family hastily began to create separate mini-families within one large family. Create, register as a village resident, and then get divorced and remarry.

Everyone who could get married got married! Brothers on cousins, husbands on their wife's sisters. Amazing cohesion, they managed to persuade the entire family to take part in the scam and even divorce their spouses.



They would like to restore the old historical houses of Lishui, but not all of them, some are resettled

This is a criminal union!

Greed ruined

The office in charge of the reconstruction project suddenly discovered that it did not have enough housing, although it had initially calculated how many people would have to be resettled and whether the Lishui administration would be able to bear such costs.

While looking for options to consolidate and reduce costs, the administrator noticed that one man was a member of several families at once. And he immediately contacted the police.

But if they had not made 23 marriages, but limited themselves to 2-3 apartments in excess of the promised norm, everything would have worked out. For example, they would simply get married between cousins fictitiously, without repeated divorces.



In China, every day they invent a new method of fraud, some people can’t sleep!

The police immediately arrested all 11 swindlers, but in the end only the 4 most active participants in the sham marriages remained behind bars. The rest were released on bail to await a court decision. Because, suddenly, she didn’t break the marriage law. Their fault is that they simply submitted applications

The eldest of the Pan family said he didn't think he did anything illegal.



The police didn't figure out who was married to whom the first time

“They said, married couples, we applied for every couple. Everything was according to the law, is it illegal to want more compensation?”

This kind of simplicity is worse than theft, but they greatly amused everyone in China. Give me a Chinese-style sitcom. Most likely they will get off with a fine.

By the way, how do you like Chinese films? So far I don’t have any particularly strong ones on my list except those in collaboration with foreign studios. The Chinese are too focused on the domestic market; there is no universal ability to tell a story.