On September 23, 2022, the Intermediate People's Court of Changchun City, Jilin Province publicly sentenced Sun Lijun, former member of the Party Committee and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Security, for accepting bribes, manipulating the securities market, and illegally possessing guns. shall be deprived of political rights for life, and shall be sentenced to confiscation of all personal property, and shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without commutation or parole upon the expiration of the two-year reprieve from the death penalty and shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without commutation or parole, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of eight years for the crime of manipulating the securities market. He was also fined one million yuan, sentenced to five years in prison for the crime of illegally possessing firearms, and decided to execute the death penalty with a two-year suspension of execution, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property, and his death sentence was suspended for two years. After being commuted to life imprisonment in accordance with the law, he will be imprisoned for life without commutation or parole; the proceeds of Sun Lijun's crime of accepting bribes and fruits will be recovered in accordance with the law and turned over to the state treasury.

  After the trial, it was found that: from 2001 to April 2020, the defendant, Sun Lijun, served as the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, the director of the General Business Department of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Public Security, and the domestic security guard. The convenience of the director of the bureau, the member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, the deputy minister, etc., as well as the convenient conditions for the formation of power and status, to provide assistance to relevant units or individuals in matters such as business operation, job adjustment, and case handling, directly or through others illegally. Received property, a total of more than 646 million yuan.

In the first half of 2018, at the request of others, Sun Lijun instructed the relevant personnel to influence the stock trading price and trading volume by means of continuous trading and other means of centralized capital advantage, and help others avoid losses of more than 145 million yuan.

Sun Lijun also violated gun management regulations and illegally possessed 2 guns.

  The Changchun Intermediate People's Court held that the defendant's actions constituted the crime of accepting bribes, manipulating the securities market, and illegal possession of firearms.

Sun Lijun took a particularly huge amount of bribes. After accepting bribes, he sought promotion and adjustment for many people, used his power to intervene in the handling of cases, and interfered with normal economic activities in the fields of medicine and finance. If it causes particularly heavy losses, the crime should be sentenced to death; Sun Lijun manipulates the securities market, and the circumstances are particularly serious; illegal possession of firearms, if the circumstances are serious, should also be punished according to law, and he should be punished together with the crime of accepting bribes.

In view of the fact that after Sun Lijun arrived at the case, the clues he provided in other major cases were verified to be true, he had performed significant meritorious service, and he took the initiative to explain some of the facts of bribery that were not yet known to the case-handling authority, truthfully confessed all the facts of the crime, was able to plead guilty and repented, and actively cooperated with the recovery of stolen goods, most of the stolen money. The stolen goods and fruits have been recovered, and there are statutory and discretionary circumstances of lighter punishment, and the death penalty may not be executed immediately.

Based on the facts and circumstances of Sun Lijun's crime and the serious harm it caused to the country and society, it was decided that after his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment upon the expiration of the two-year reprieve, he would be imprisoned for life without commutation or parole.

The court made the above judgment.

  (Headquarters CCTV reporter Xi Danni Zhang Sai)