Sun Lijun, medium-sized… End of punishment for ‘Jiang Zemin’s network’ in public security exposed to corruption
Sun Lijun (53), former deputy minister of public security (deputy minister), who once wielded enormous power as the second-in-command of the Chinese public security (police) and dropped out on charges of corruption, has been sentenced to a suspended execution.
According to the People’s Network, the Internet version of the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China on the 23rd, the Intermediate People’s Court of Changchun City, Jilin Province, sentenced Sun to the death penalty and suspended the execution for two years for former Vice-Chairman Sun who was charged with bribery, stock market manipulation, and illegal possession of firearms. sentenced
Probation of execution is a judicial system unique to China, in which execution is suspended for two years, and then the sentence is reduced to life imprisonment in consideration of the attitude of the prisoner.
The court said it would permanently strip Sun’s political rights and confiscate all of his personal property.
He also said that at the end of the two-year probation period, the sentence could be life in prison, with no commutation or release.
The court ruled that Mr. Sun abused his powers during his public life from 2001 to April 2020 to provide convenience to individuals and businesses, such as management and case handling, for a total of 636 million yuan (about 126.1 billion won). won) was accepted.
In the first half of 2018, in response to a request from another person, he ordered stock price manipulation to help others avoid a loss of 145 million yuan (about 28.8 billion won), the court said.
The court deserved the death penalty because the defendant’s crime was particularly serious, had a severe social impact, and caused a particularly significant loss to the state and public interest. He explained that the execution of the death penalty will be suspended in consideration of the fact that it actively cooperated with the recovery of criminal proceeds.
Sun was an elite who was appointed as the youngest deputy head of the Ministry of Public Security in 2018 when he was 49 years old. He was arrested last November.
He was directly under the direct subordinate of Meng Jianzhu, former secretary of the Central Political and Legal Committee, who was a close aide to former President Jiang Zemin, who was the pinnacle of the ‘Shanghai Bang’, which is the top priority in the Xi Jinping regime.
Because of such a history, when the news of the investigation by Sun Lijun was released in April of last year, attention was focused on whether there were any implications for the internal power structure in China.
Prior to this, on the 22nd, the same sentence of confinement was sentenced to former Judicial Minister Fu Zhenghua (ministerial level), who was classified as Jiang Zemin and Meng Jianzhou, like Sun Lijun.
In addition, on the 21st, three people who were classified as Sun Lijun line were sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 prison sentences respectively: Gong Daoan, former deputy mayor and public security director of Shanghai, Deng Huilin, former deputy mayor and public security director of Chongqing, and former deputy governor of Shaanxi province and public security chief Liu Xinyun, respectively. He was sentenced to a severe sentence of 14 years in prison.
With this, the criminal liquidation and punishment of Jiang Zemin-affiliated members of public security who committed corruption ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China next month (opening on October 16), which is expected to determine the extension of President Xi’s power, have been completed.
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