[Epoch Times, May 7, 2022](The Epoch Times reporter Gu Qinger comprehensive report) On May 7, Wang Linqing, a former judge of the Supreme Court of the Communist Party of China, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He once reported in his real name that senior officials such as Zhou Qiang, President of the Supreme Court, intervened in the “100 billion mineral rights dispute in northern Shaanxi”.
On May 7, the Wang Linqing case was sentenced. Wang Linqing was sentenced to 10 years in prison for “taking bribes” and 5 years for “illegal acquisition of state secrets”.
Wang Linqing is accused of receiving over 21.9 million yuan from 2008 to 2018 from 2 units including Yulin Kaiqilai Energy Investment Co., Ltd. (Xiajian Kaiqilai Company) and 11 people including lawyer Cheng Jie and lawyer Yang Ming (RMB, the same below), of which more than 350,000 yuan of shopping cards received from Zhao Faqi, the legal representative of Kaqilai Company.
Wang Linqing was also accused of obtaining a large number of dossier materials in the case of Keqilai Company by borrowing, fraudulently obtaining dossier materials and then secretly photographing them from June to August 2018. Five of the materials obtained together with Zhao Faqi were classified state secrets. Zhao Faqi, Cheng Jie, Yang Ming and others have been punished.
Analysis: The key facts of Wang Linqing’s case were covered up or burned to Zhou Qiang and Zhao Leji
Current affairs commentator Yue Shan told The Epoch Times that it is not surprising that Wang Linqing’s case was accused of corruption, because under the CCP’s rule, Chinese society as a whole is morally corrupt, and the entire officialdom is corrupt. It is easy for the authorities to arrest Wang Linqing. From this point of view, the Wang Linqing case is actually after offending the powerful and then looking for some corruption charges.
As for Wang Linqing’s “crime of illegally obtaining state secrets”, Yue Shan said that the official accused Wang Linqing of obtaining a large number of dossier materials in the Keqilai case by borrowing, defrauding dossier materials and then secretly photographing them.5It is a classified state secret. This may actually be the key to angering the authorities, because this part of the trial is not open to the public, and officials will not disclose the details of the documents.
Yue Shan believes that the previous investigation results of the CCP official focused on Wang Linqing’s revelations about the loss of the “Kagelai case” file, claiming that Wang Linqing was guarding and stealing from himself. However, he has been avoiding another question that points to Zhou Qiang and more powerful people, that is, the so-called confidential documents obtained by Wang Linqing are themselves evidence of Zhou Qiang’s interference in justice.
In addition to Zhou Qiang, Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, Zhou Yongkang, the former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and Xi Xiaoming, the former vice president of the Supreme People’s Court, have all been accused of interfering in the case.
Hong Kong’s “Ming Pao” reported in October 2019 that Cui Yongyuan, a former CCTV celebrity, took advantage of the “100 billion mineral rights case” in Shaanxi to disclose “secret documents” including instructions from Zhou Qiang, the president of the Supreme Court. Part of the content is exactly Zhao Leji’s instructions on the “100 billion mineral rights case” during his tenure as secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee. Zhao Zhengyong, then governor of Shaanxi Province, has been sacked.
The report also quoted sources in Beijing as saying that Xi had warned Zhao Leji about the two cases.
Yue Shan said that because the Wang Linqing case not only exposed Zhou Qiang’s problems, but also touched on the scandal of Zhao Leji, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. It’s no wonder that Zhao Leji didn’t give a heavy sentence. Moreover, the entire judgment process was carried out with the knowledge and consent of the highest level of the CCP, which shows that the CCP’s so-called rule of law is extremely hypocritical, a collective crime, and the CCP regime is hopeless.
Wang Linqing once reported to Zhou Qiang, President of the Supreme Court of the Communist Party of China, in his real name
On December 26, 2018, Cui Yongyuan disclosed that the mineral rights case file was lost in the Supreme Court. Afterwards, Wang Linqing released videos several times, exposing the case in which the Supreme Court President Zhou Qiang directly intervened, and the process of the bizarre loss of the second-instance and auxiliary files in his office in November 2016.
In a series of videos, the judge Wang Linqing in the case repeatedly accused Zhou Qiang of illegally interfering in the case, and the unanimous opinion of the collegial panel on the ownership of the mining rights was instructed by Zhou Qiang to “return it for retrial”. Wang Linqing also said, “This file is not lost. In fact, it is in the Supreme Court, in someone’s office, or under someone’s control.”
On February 18, 2019, Zhao Faqi, a party to the “100 Billion Mineral Rights Case in Northern Shaanxi” and the legal representative of Kaqilai, sent an open letter on Twitter to report Wang Linqing’s real-name report to Zhou Qiang, President of the Supreme Court. This report letter was written by Wang Linqing on May 15, 2018.
Wang Linqing’s report letter stated that Zhou Qiang instructed the court and court leaders to destroy the traces of their intervention in the case, openly stole the case file under trial, and forged a full set of case files to concoct a Chinese judicial version of the “Watergate Incident.” This incident continued to attract public attention at home and abroad.
In February 2019, the joint investigation team led by the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China announced the investigation results of the case, claiming that Wang Linqing was responsible for the loss of the “Kagelai case” file, and that Wang Linqing was suspected of “illegal acquisition and intentional disclosure of state secrets” and was placed on file for investigation. That night, Wang Linqing “confessed his guilt” on CCTV.
Cui Yongyuan, the former CCTV host who once supported Wang Linqing, “disappeared” and issued a statement of apology, claiming to support “the conclusion of the Central Investigation Team’s investigation.”
There was a major reversal in the case, which made public opinion fry. Public opinion generally believes that the investigation results of the CCP authorities confuse black and white. Once again completely destroyed the credibility of the CCP government.
On October 16, 2020, lawyer Hong Li of Beijing Huatai (Urumqi) Law Firm disclosed on Weibo that lawyer Zhang Lei met with Wang Linqing at the Beijing Detention Center on the afternoon of October 16, and introduced the general situation of the meeting. The tweet was subsequently deleted.
According to the article, Wang Linqing talked almost non-stop for two hours during the meeting. The general content was: Wang Linqing was nearly blind in his left eye, his hearing in his right ear was severely reduced, and his waist and prostate were severely damaged. The content shows that Wang Linqing was suspected of being tortured during his detention, and bluntly stated that “it is not the life of a human being.”
Wang Linqing also said that what he said in Cui Yongyuan’s video was completely true and did not lie. “Lin Qing did not steal papers”. He also said: The trial sub-volume itself is a freak of history, which violates the principle of open trial and will eventually be abandoned by history.
The “Dispute over the Mining Rights of 100 Billion in Northern Shaanxi” refers to the dispute over the exploration rights between Zhao Faqi, the legal representative of Kaqilai, and the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (hereinafter referred to as the Western Exploration Institute). The two parties signed an agreement in 2003, and Kaiqilai invested 10 million yuan to cooperate with the Western Exploration Institute to investigate the Shaanxi Boluo Mine Coal Mine.
After it was proved that the well had about 1.9 billion tons of high-quality coal, the Western Exploration Institute demanded to terminate the contract and signed an agreement with Hong Kong businesswoman Liu Juan’s “Hong Kong Yiye Investment Company” in 2006, “one woman and two marry”. This dispute, involving the Shaanxi authorities looting the property of private enterprises, lasted for more than ten years.
Responsible editor: Lin Congwen