Ahead of next month's Communist Party Congress, which will focus on whether Chinese President Xi Jinping will enter an unprecedented third term as party leader, former officials from the police and judiciary who are said to have been hostile to Xi. have been convicted of corruption and other crimes one after another, and the Xi Jinping leadership is believed to be further tightening its grip on the party.
State-run China Central Television said on the 23rd that a court in the northeastern province of Jilin sentenced Sun Lijun, who served as vice minister of public security, to death with a two-year suspension of execution.
Son abused his authority from 2001 to 2012, taking bribes worth a total of 646 million yuan, approximately 13 billion yen in Japanese yen, and illegally possessing two guns. It has been with.
In addition, three former executives of police departments such as Shanghai and Chongqing, who are said to be members of Mr. Son's political group, were convicted one after another on charges such as corruption by the 23rd.
On the 22nd, Mr. Fu Zhenghua, who had served as Minister of Justice and other positions, was sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution, and the Xi Jinping leadership is said to have been hostile to President Xi ahead of next month's Communist Party Congress. It is believed that the party is further tightening its grip on the party by eliminating groups that are likely to be in the party.