Behind every corrupt man (2)

A cradle of corruption

"A good wife should stay rational and keep her husband away from dirty money," Deng told the class, warning them that corruption goes hand in hand with mistresses and marriage crises.

Deng told the Global Times that he was not sure if two hours would be enough for them, until he saw the look on the students' faces as they heard previous corruption cases.

Figures show that in cases of corrupt officials, over 80 percent of the time the family members had taken bribes in the form of "red envelopes" or festival gifts, according to research posted on the website of the Procuratorial Daily.

The seventh amendment of China's Criminal Law in 2009 added that officials would be given criminal sanctions if their families committed the crime of receiving bribes.

Pan Xiao, former Party secretary of the Huadu District Committee in Guangzhou, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in August, confessed that his third marriage changed him. "In order to please my new wife and her parents, I sought illegitimate gains," reported the Guangzhou Daily.