When the meeting was over, one of our senior managers and his assistant got them a cab, rode to the train station and got them on the correct train for their next destination.
They never showed up. Their superiors contacted us and chewed us out for not accompanying them to their destination. We got the definite idea that these two guys got off somewhere along the line and disappeared into the illegal immigrant population working in Japan. IOW, a job as an illegal immigrant in a Chinese restaurant somewhere in Japan was preferable to a life as a government official in China.
We simply told them that Japan was a free country which didn't handle people in that manner and they were free to file a missing persons report with the police.
The truck driver isn't the brains behind the operation.
Another true story (from two years ago)...here in Germany, they had this Chinese tour group that had arrived. Tour ‘leader’ had taken all of their passports, and they were on like the 7th day of this bus-tour around Germany.
They get down to Neuschwanstein (the Bavarian castle that tourists always stop and see). There on the back-side of it is this trail that leads up to a bridge that goes from one hill to another, and gives you a five-star view of the castle. So as part of this five-hour stop...the couple walks up to this trail point and the bridge, then they are never seen again. Tour-guide calls the police, and there’s a serious search mounted for that day and the next. No sign of the two. They just disappeared.
My guess is that the two had some money moved out of the China ahead of time, and some group picked them up along the trail....resettling them into Germany in an anonymous fashion.