Wei Pengyuan

Wei Pengyuan (Chinese: 魏鹏远; born November 20, 1959), from Liaoning province Huludao city, was a former Chinese politician who was sentenced to death in 2016 for corruption, bribery, and hoarding more than 200 million yuan (around $30 million USD) in cash. Wei had served in the National Development and Reform Commission, and his corruption case was one of the largest in China's history, creating a record in cash assets seized at the time.

In total, Wei accumulated 300 million yuan in embezzled funds. If the 300 million yuan stash was stacked in a vertical pile, it would almost reach the height of the Eiffel Tower.