City Party Secretary has 10 mistresses and owns a luxurious mansion.

This seemingly honest Chinese official stunned the entire Shanghai population when he was exposed for accepting bribes, having 10 mistresses, and embezzling public funds.

From heaven to hell

Tran Luong Vu when he was Shanghai Party Secretary.

Tran Luong Vu, born in 1946 in Zhejiang province, China, is a former member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Shanghai.

Mayor Chen Liangwu was a Chinese official who was loved by the people of Shanghai because he was a person with heart and vision in building the city. From a remote city, Shanghai transformed into a financial and economic center of the world. Mr. Wu was the one who helped the people of Shanghai enjoy modern life with 3 cards: ATM card, traffic card and social insurance card.

Vu when being escorted to court.

As an architect who graduated from the Logistics Academy, he was very interested in the road system and helped increase the average traffic speed in the city by 25km/h. The average living area per person was also significantly increased, from 6.6 m2 to 12 m2 in 2001. Large corporations such as GM and Honeywell were persuaded by Vu to move their headquarters from Singapore to Shanghai.

The scandal broke out when a third of the city’s $1.2 billion in social security funds were embezzled. Investigations from 1998 revealed that Mr. Wu and his associates had misused 16 billion yuan and tried to cover up their wrongdoings.

Building a mansion on agricultural land

Tran Luong Vu's mansion is compared to the Summer Palace.

Tran Luong Vu's mansion was built in Bang Do village, Ma Kieu district, Shanghai city. Because of its particularly elaborate flower garden, it is considered the "21st century Summer Palace".

The Summer Palace is an outstanding architectural work in Beijing, over 800 years old and known by another name, “Summer Palace”. This work is world famous for its elaborate and sophisticated gardens spread over an area of ​​290 hectares. 75% of the Summer Palace area is water.

Romantic view of the mansion.

According to Chinese media, Tran Luong Vu's mansion was built in 2003 on an area of ​​400 mu of land (about 26 hectares). To get his hands on this land, Mr. Vu requested the relocation of hundreds of households, even encroaching on agricultural land. The village secretary of Bang Do even "gave" the land papers to Mr. Vu in exchange for close relationships later.

This villa is now a tourist attraction.

During the groundbreaking ceremony, Tran Luong Vu was present and cut the ribbon. His subordinates designed this garden with 57 bridges of different shapes, symbolizing Mr. Vu's age. Many ancient trees, strangely shaped rocks and "holding strange flowers and herbs" were also brought to this garden. There are ancient trees that are hundreds of years old.

Many people on social network Weibo claim that Mr. Vu's mansion is even more magnificent in scale than the Summer Palace.

The bridge leading to the mansion.

Mr. Vu’s garden has a giant rock with the words “Pho Giang Hon”, meaning the soul of the famous Huangpu River in Shanghai. After the owner was arrested and tried in 2008, the villa was abandoned. Currently, Peng Du village has reclaimed it and turned it into a tourist area. Each entrance ticket is 20 yuan.

Mistresses all over the country

According to Asia Weekly, Mr. Vu had 10 mistresses, spread from Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing to Beijing. He was accused of cheating in 2001 and had to use his acquaintances to "reconcile internally". The compensation offered was 250,000 to 500,000 yuan per sexual encounter.

Among Mr. Wu's mistresses, the most notable was Yu Lifen, a female employee at the security office of Shanghai University. Mr. Wu arranged for Yu to become the chief of the Shanghai University police station and Yu quickly ran for higher positions.

Tran Luong Vu has 10 mistresses across the country.

Tran Luong Vu pampered his son Tran Duy Luc and appointed him as the deputy general director of Hoa Vien Company with a salary of 400,000 yuan (about 800 million VND). As soon as he arrived at the company, Luc received a bonus of 600,000 yuan for his “special achievements”. Tran Luong Vu’s official wife was arranged to travel abroad frequently and had more than 200,000 yuan in her account to spend.

20m solitary confinement room²

Tran Luong Vu surprised all of Shanghai with his embezzlement.

In 2008, Tran Luong Vu was brought to trial for abusing his position from 1988 to 2006 for personal gain. Mr. Vu admitted to taking more than 2.39 million yuan in bribes from organizations and individuals. This amount of money was enough to warrant the death penalty for Mr. Tran Luong Vu, but because Mr. Vu returned all the money and confessed honestly, his sentence was reduced to 18 years in prison.

Currently, Mr. Vu is detained in a room of more than 20 square meters in Tan Thanh. This is a place that specializes in detaining Chinese officials. Each cell for high-ranking officials is equipped with clean equipment and a supervisor outside day and night. Mr. Vu is given a desk lamp when he needs to read or write.

The Ifeng newspaper said the room was specially designed to prevent suicide. Even if a prisoner banged his head against the wall, he would not suffer a brain injury and die because the wall was covered with thick padding. As a former high-ranking official, Mr. Vu did not have to wear prison clothes. The former Shanghai Party Secretary often chose to wear a suit but was not issued a tie for fear of suicide.

According to Kienthuc.net.vn