[Epoch Times, January 16, 2022]The case of Sun Lijun, the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, was officially classified as a “political gang”. The official broadcast yesterday (15th) a feature film for the first time. But there are still doubts and suspense.
The first episode of the CCP’s anti-corruption TV feature film “Zero Tolerance”, “No Less Than 1.4 Billion”, was broadcast on CCTV at 8:05 p.m. on the 15th. Many details of the “political gang” of Sun Lijun, the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security who has been sacked for a year, have been exposed.
The members of Sun Lijun’s “small circle” are: Gong Daoan, former director of the Technical Reconnaissance Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, deputy mayor of Shanghai, and director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau; Deng Huilin, former director of the Office of the Central Political and Legal Committee, deputy mayor of Chongqing, Director of Municipal Public Security Bureau; Wang Like, former Deputy Director of Liaoning Provincial Public Security Bureau, Director of Dalian Municipal Public Security Bureau, Deputy Governor of Jiangsu Province, Director of Provincial Public Security Bureau, Member of the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee; Liu Xinyun, former Ministry of Public Security Director of the Network Security Bureau, Deputy Governor of Shanxi Province, and Director of the Provincial Public Security Department.
Together with Sun Lijun himself, the five “tigers” of politics and law are formed.
The film also accuses Sun Lijun and Wang Like of accepting hundreds of millions of yuan in property, and others have tens of millions to more than 100 million yuan.
Details of Sun Lijun’s early accumulation of wealth
When Sun Lijun was indicted on the 13th, he was first revealed to have made money in Shanghai.
According to the accusation prosecuted by the CCP prosecutor: Sun Lijun used to serve as the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, the director of the Comprehensive Business Department of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal Government, the deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Public Security, the director of the Internal Security Bureau, a member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, and deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security. The convenience of ministers and other positions, as well as the convenient conditions for the formation of power and status, seek benefits for others, and illegally accept other people’s property, the amount is particularly huge.
In last night’s feature film, Gu Hui, a staff member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, said that after Sun Lijun graduated from university, he initially followed a few Wenzhou businessmen to sell steel products. Later, his father found a relationship and arranged him to work in the health department. But the film did not mention who the backer was at the time.
In 2001, Sun Lijun cooperated with the medical boss. Sun Lijun was responsible for introducing the relationship between the government and the hospital. The boss was responsible for the capital contribution and the company’s operation, and agreed that the interests would be divided into 37%. After Sun Lijun took up a post in the Ministry of Public Security, he continued to use his power and status to work for the company, and to conduct power and money transactions, accepting huge amounts of property.
The feature film said that in 2008, after Sun Lijun was transferred to Beijing to work, he used his power to help a number of businessmen do business, and the businessmen offered him huge bribes. Sun Lijun was seized a large amount of stolen money and stolen goods, including huge amounts of cash, expensive watches, gold and silver jewelry, vintage Maotai, high-end mobile phones, and precious Pu’er tea.
Gu Hui, a staff member of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, said that after arriving at the Ministry of Public Security, Sun Lijun installed cronies, formed gangs, and formed gangs in order to achieve his personal political goals. His interactions with the gang members are entirely based on power, power and money, and power-color transactions.
In 2010, in the training class for the national public security bureau chiefs, Sun Lijun was optimistic about Gong Daoan, director of the Xianning City Public Security Bureau of Hubei Province, and took the initiative to win over Gong Daoan to be the deputy director of the Technical Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. Director of the Bureau, Director of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, and Deputy Mayor of Shanghai.
For Gong Daoan, Sun Lijun spent a lot of money to buy people’s hearts. He took out a large amount of money from the bribery proceeds to solve the housing for Gong Daoan’s children, arrange work for relatives, etc., and also gave “bonus” to Gong Daoan’s subordinate team.
Gu Hui said that Gong Daoan was grateful to Sun Lijun and obeyed his words.
Sun Lijun and Wang Like
When dealing with Wang Like, former member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Sun Lijun collected money wantonly.
The feature film revealed that Wang Like first worked in the housing management office, and his father found a relationship to send him to the police force, and then continued to help him get promoted. From the grassroots public security to the deputy director of the police station, the deputy director of the county public security bureau, the director of the Bac Ninh Public Security Bureau, and the deputy director of the Jinzhou Public Security Bureau, there are shadows of his father’s activities behind him.
Wang Like became the deputy director of the Jinzhou City Public Security Bureau, and his father’s connections were basically exhausted. While using his power to help several bosses, Wang Like accepted huge bribes, and then used the bribes to continue to offer bribes to build relationships. He first relied on Li Wenxi, the then director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, and was promoted to the deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department and the director of the Dalian Public Security Bureau; in the second half of 2008, Sun Lijun, then the deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Public Security, visited Liaoning. , the two are in a relationship.
In 2011, during Sun Lijun’s business trip to Liaoning, Wang Like presented a bank card with 1 million yuan for the first time, and Sun Lijun accepted it without hesitation. Since then, Wang Like has made special trips to Beijing and other places to “visit” Sun Lijun many times, sending bank cards, US dollars, and company shares.
Sun Lijun said, “He (Wang Like) comes to Beijing about four or five times a year, and each time he gives me $300,000 in a small seafood box. Every time he comes, he says, I’ll give you some ‘small seafood’. ‘, I know what’s going on.”
The “small seafood” that Wang Like gave to Sun Lijun over the years was equivalent to more than 90 million yuan at the time of the crime, and according to Sun Lijun, “Wang Like went to Jiangsu to be the vice governor and director of public security, and later became Jiangsu. Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, I have provided help along the way. I treat him as my own.”
According to official media reports, the case of Sun Lijun was jointly investigated and handled by the State Supervision Commission of the Communist Party of China and the Changchun Municipal Public Security Bureau, and then designated by the Supreme Procuratorate for review and prosecution by the Changchun City Procuratorate of Jilin Province. The Changchun City Procuratorate filed a lawsuit with the Changchun City Intermediate Court. The whole process is the same as Wang Like.
Gong Daoan not only served Sun Lijun himself, but also helped Sun Lijun run and enrich the “small circle”, and recommended to Sun Lijun Deng Huilin, then director of the Yichang City Public Security Bureau, Hubei Province. Sun Lijun helped Deng Huilin to be promoted to the office director of the Central Political and Legal Committee, the director of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau, and the deputy mayor of Chongqing.
Deng Huilin, the former deputy mayor of Chongqing and director of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau, who retired on June 14, 2020, was arrested on January 22, 2021 and transferred for prosecution on charges of taking bribes. However, on January 4, the official notified him of the “double-opening” charges, in addition to corruption and bribery, large-scale power and sex trade, and “participating in gangs within the party to gain political capital”, and “enthusiasm for political speculation, rash opinion” The Party Central Committee’s Major Policies” and so on. As usual, the official did not specify the specific “violation of laws and disciplines” involved by Deng Huilin.
On September 14, 2021, Sohu and NetEase published an article titled “Iron fist hits those who are stunned!”, revealing that Jiangsu “judicial gangsters” led by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and headed by Luo Wenjin, the former criminal police chief of the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department “The content of the briefing on the issue. Among them, Luo Wenjin and Deng Huilin (former Chongqing public security chief) were fellow villagers in Wuhan, Hubei. The activities were inappropriate, and the criminal activities were stopped by the security personnel.”
Regarding the “main leaders of the country” in the aforementioned article, many analysts believe that it should refer to Xi Jinping. However, the official then blocked the article and did not respond to outside speculation.
Sun Lijun and Liu Xinyun
In 2014, Sun Lijun found another “person” Liu Xinyun. Liu Xinyun turned out to be the director of the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau. Once the Ministry of Public Security held a meeting in Shandong, Liu Xinyun was in charge of security. In the evening, he took the initiative to introduce himself at Sun Lijun’s residence to draw closer.
Under the operation of Sun Lijun, in December 2014, Liu Xinyun was transferred to be the director of the Cyber Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. As soon as he arrived in Beijing, Sun Lijun arranged a meal, and other members of the “small circle” would welcome him.
The feature film revealed that Liu Xinyun privately provided Sun Lijun with a large amount of important online public opinion for the violation; Gong Daoan also provided Sun Lijun with a lot of information and reported the case handling. Most of the materials they provided to Sun Lijun in violation of regulations, Sun Lijun has no right to know.
In January 2018, Liu Xinyun served as the vice governor of Shanxi and the director of the Provincial Public Security Department, and he was retired on April 9, 2021. Liu Xinyun was officially accused of engaging in gangs, keen on political speculation, accepting huge sums of money, abusing power and so on.
“China News Weekly” reported that the public security department had reported internally that Liu Xinyun had abused technical investigation methods. “The abuse of technical investigation methods mainly refers to the monitoring and monitoring of the leaders of the provincial party committee and the provincial government when he was in Shanxi.”
Sun Lijun’s plot for higher office confirms Epoch Times report
The feature film said that in 2018, Sun Lijun took the position of deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security. He believes that he is the youngest party committee member and deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security. He has political potential and advantages that others do not have, and his ambitions are even greater. higher leadership positions.
Gu Hui, a staff member of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said that Sun Lijun had inflated political ambitions and sought what he called greater development. boasting. While enjoying the praise, he made up his mind to go to the camp, and often made a wish to the members of the “small circle”.
In September last year, Sun Lijun was reported to have “extremely inflated political ambitions,” “ganged up to control key departments,” and “seriously endangered political security.”
Yuan Hongbing, a scholar in Macau, told The Epoch Times earlier that Sun Lijun’s main problem is that he and Xi Jinping’s cronie Wang Xiaohong, who is now the executive vice minister and party secretary of the Ministry of Public Security, are fighting for power in the Ministry of Public Security.
“Especially after Meng Hongwei’s fall, he (Sun Lijun) felt that he had the oldest qualifications in the Ministry of Public Security,” Yuan Hongbing said, who knew that Xi Jinping would use Wang Xiaohong. “When Sun Lijun was transferred to the Ministry of Public Security to be the director of that bureau, Wang Xiaohong is still a junior police officer at the grassroots level in Fujian.”
Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua’s case
The feature film also mentioned that, at present, the investigation of Sun Lijun’s political gang case is still in progress, and the central government has decided to file a case for review and investigation on Fu Zhenghua, the former minister of the Ministry of Justice, and others.
When the Ministry of Public Security held a meeting on the Sun Lijun case on October 1, 2021, it mentioned Fu Zhenghua by name. On October 2, Fu Zhenghua was sacked.
Tang Jingyuan, a current affairs commentator, once told The Epoch Times that from the official disposal of Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, the two cases are related. In order to be safe, the authorities gradually weakened Fu Zhenghua’s power, gradually marginalizing him in two years and stripping him of his gang power. It wasn’t until he was transferred to the CPPCC to take up a completely idle post that he was formally investigated.
Sun Dongsheng, deputy director of the Case Trial Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission, said in the feature film that the Sun Lijun case is a typical case where political and economic issues are intertwined.
Xi Jinping said one after another at the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in January last year: “Political issues and economic issues are intertwined, threatening the political security of the party and the country…” Anti-corruption should “focus on corruption cases where political and economic issues are intertwined”, and “severely investigate and deal with corruption cases.” A two-faced person who is disloyal to the party and violates the yang and yin.”
Current affairs commentator Li Linyi said, “The CCP’s political and legal system has always helped the CCP maintain power and persecute the people, and now it has become a serious concern for Xi Jinping. Senior political and legal officials have power and guns, and they are basically involved in corruption. They also have ties with businessmen. There is interest transmission. Their greater backing is the CCP’s powerful family, which is the economic and political basis for anti-Xi.”
“One of the reasons why Xi purges the collusion between officials and businessmen is to eliminate the threat to his own power.” Li Linyi said, “The reason why the political and legal system has been cleaned so much now is also because Xi has always been worried about the political and legal system’s treatment of himself. loyalty.”
Who did Sun Lijun rely on to help form a circle?
According to the feature film, Sun Lijun helped Gong Daoan to be promoted to deputy director and director of the Technical Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, director of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, and deputy mayor of Shanghai; helped Liu Xinyun to be transferred to the director of the Internet Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security; helped Deng Huilin to be promoted successively Director of the Office of the Central Political and Legal Committee, Director of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and Deputy Mayor of Chongqing; helped Wang Like to go to Jiangsu to become the Deputy Governor and Director of Public Security, and later became a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee. The backer above Sun Lijun attracts attention.
On the first day of 2022, the CCP’s mouthpiece, Qiushi, published a speech by Xi Jinping, saying that “intra-party political gangs” will be strictly investigated.
Tang Jingyuan said that a case like Sun Lijun would definitely involve more than Fu Zhenghua’s level, and would involve higher levels.
Many observers believe that Sun Lijun, Gong Daoan, Deng Huilin and others all have a common old master, Meng Jianzhu, the former secretary of the Central Political and Legal Committee. Meng Jianzhu has always been regarded as an important member of the Jiang faction.
The Epoch Times columnist Wang He wrote that the reason why Sun Lijun could become the youngest deputy ministerial-level official of the Ministry of Public Security at that time had his distinct background in the “Shanghai Gang”. Judging from Sun’s ascending process, there is a powerful force pushing him forward, and he has a clear plan. This showed that Xi had limited control over the Ministry of Public Security, and Xi had confidence in Sun Lijun at the time, until later his cronie Wang Xiaohong entered the Ministry of Public Security.
Wang He believes that dealing with Sun Lijun is not just a conflict between Wang Xiaohong and Sun Lijun, but a contest between the forces behind them. When Xi Jinping took down Sun Lijun, he smashed the personnel layout of the “Shanghai Gang” in one fell swoop. At the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi wants to completely control the political situation, and the anti-Xi factions will not sit still. The internal struggle of the CCP will only intensify.
Editor in charge: Ning Haizhong#
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