I assure you we had no idea that Bter was going to close up.  I got a lot of flack in the previous page when I posted that there was some Skullduggery going on at Bter.  

Looks like a Romanian group has lost enough coin to make hiring a hitman very attractive.  

There has been a major crackdown on corruption in China.  Several billionaires and many many officials have been executed for corruption.  If Lin has been involved in pay-offs and the official that he paid-off has been arrested, it would only make good survival sense to grab the cash and run to a country without an extradition treaty with China........ Taiwan.