It’s easy to forget how much money a billion is when we hear the word billionair all the time. But when someone says 13 tons of gold and 23 tons of cash I’m like damn that is way too much for any 1 individual.

how you can keep 13[.5] tonnes of an incredibly dense object in an apartment

Gold’s density is 19320 kg/m³

13500 kg / 19320 kg/m³ = 0.6988 m³

Rounding up to 1 m³ since gold bars don’t stack perfectly.

So basically a closet can store it all. And people like this tend not to give a shit about or even be aware of silly things like “safety” or “structural load” so I wouldn’t be surprised if the building’s fucked from this.

Edit: Actually I got curious so let’s calculate some more.

According to this website, concrete can have a compressive strength of anywhere from 5 MPa to 60 MPa. I don’t know what they make apartments out of but let’s go middle of the road and say 30 MPa, which is the first category where you need a design mix (mix, let cure, and test, presumably) and not a hard and fast ratio.

Assuming the gold is stacked at 1m by 1m by 1m (so it has a 1 m² base).

An online converter tells me that 13500 kg is 132389.802 N, or 0.1324 MN. Pa is N per m² so it would be 0.1324 MPa, a small fraction of the concrete’s rated load by my non-physicist non-engineer guess.

Obviously most of the load of the concrete is taken up by the building itself, so I don’t know how much load in the apartment it can tolerate, and this also assumes the gold pile is resting directly on a vertical beam and not on a horizontal beam without anything underneath. But from the looks of it (again, not an engineer), it wouldn’t be nearly enough to immediately collapse the building, just eat away at the safety margins and reduce the building’s lifespan.

If this were 'murica, just 2 two bedoom apartments. But it’d have to be uniformly distributed.

Idk, that money is representative of peoples lives. He effectively stole millions of hours of human life for himself. People willing to do that are the incredibly deplorable imo. I do disagree with the death penalty on principle but I am not gonna wring my hands about this guy.

His death penalty was deferred according to someone in this comment section if that brings you comfort.

Chinese death sentences are usually imprisonment unless a new crime is commited, and generally reserved for corruption & other crimes where people nuke trust in public institutions for personal gain

I think how it generally goes in China is that a suspended sentence on the death penalty means life imprisonment in the absence of any new crimes. So he might only serve jail time. But I don’t have a serious source on that so don’t commit crime in China based on my advice.

(besides that though, I always find it odd how people draw the line at what punishments are acceptable for criminals. Why is locking him in a box forever fine but killing him is excessive? Unless there’s a concern of false conviction and a possibility of getting the ruling overturned, life imprisonment doesn’t seem like it’s the more ethical option.)

Feeding this piece of shit is a further theft of public resources.

Also, with that much diverted money I guarantee you he contributed to someone’s death either through his corruption directly or through depriving them of public resources they deserved. And murder should always get the death penalty, no exceptions.