Arrest and prosecution of 4 Chinese "Big Tigers" in one day

Jin Suidong when he was in office.

Disciplinary action against 526 thousand party members/year

According to information from the Supreme People's Procuracy, Wu Zhen, former Deputy Director General of the National Food and Drug Supervision Administration, was arrested for suspected abuse of power and bribery; Jin Suidong, Deputy Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Henan Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, was arrested for alleged bribery; Li Shixiang, Deputy Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Beijing Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, was arrested for alleged bribery.All three have now had their files completed for prosecution.

The person prosecuted by the Supreme People's Procuracy for bribery is Zeng Zhiquan, former member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Head of the United Front Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee.

After being investigated for his involvement in the massive fake vaccine scandal in Changchun in August 2018, Ngo Trinh was expelled from the Party on February 2, 2019. Now 60 years old, Ngo Trinh has held a position in the food and drug management and supervision system for many years.

After being appointed as Deputy Director General in September 2006, he was always assigned to manage pharmaceutical registration, quality control and inspection, with great power in his hands, and was called the "Vaccine Tsar".

During the more than 10 years that Trinh was in charge of the vaccine production and consumption sector, there were consecutive cases of the "vaccine incident" in Shanxi, Jiangsu, the Hebei rabies vaccine incident, the "Hepatitis B vaccine incident in 2013" and then the Shandong vaccine scandal in 2016.

Vaccine King Ngo Trinh.

Notably, Ngo Trinh was promoted while there were many complaints due to having a "big umbrella"; public opinion believes that it may be related to a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee.

Jin Suidong, 65 years old this year, fell off his horse on September 18, 2018. He had held the positions of Secretary General of the City Party Committee, Permanent Deputy Mayor, Deputy Secretary, Mayor and then Secretary of the Anyang City Party Committee for 13 years. He is a calligraphy enthusiast and is the Honorary President of the Calligraphy Association of Henan Province and Anyang City.

In the notice of handling Can Tuy Dong, it was stated: Dong tried to collect money, opposed inspections, sabotaged the selection and use of talents, sold his own calligraphy works at very high prices; borrowed other people's cars for long periods of time for family members to use; had moral degradation, exchanged money for sex, and exchanged power for love.

Lee Si Tuong.

Li Shixiang, 61 years old this year, was the former Standing Deputy Mayor and Vice Chairman of the Beijing CPPCC. He fell from his horse on September 15, 2018 and was expelled from the Party on February 3, 2019. Xiang is the second “Big Tiger” of Beijing to be overthrown after the 18th Congress, after Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Lu Xiwen.

In December 2006, Li Shixiang replaced Sun Zhengcai as Secretary General of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, becoming Secretary to Party Secretary Liu Qi. Xiang was accused of trying to “exchange power for money”; by helping private businessmen gain huge benefits in order to directly or through relatives receive bribes from them...

Zeng Zhiquan, 56 years old, was accused of taking advantage of his previous positions as Deputy Director and Director of the Provincial Department of Finance to seek benefits for others and then accepting huge bribes, showing signs of committing the crime of accepting bribes. On July 11, 2018, after 3 months of being assigned to the position of Head of the Provincial Party Committee's United Front, Zeng Zhiquan fell from power.

The press reported that on the morning of July 11, he planned to attend the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee meeting, but before the meeting, he was taken away by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection staff. On January 4, 2019, Quyen was expelled from the Party and civil service, becoming the first “Tiger” to be punished in 2019. Zeng Zhiquan is the fifth “Tiger” in Guangdong to be overthrown since the 18th Congress. Those who were overthrown before have all been brought to trial.

Disciplinary action against 526 thousand party members in one year

On February 20, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection released the work report of the 3rd Plenary Session; it stated that in the past year, great achievements had been made in the fight against corruption, the capture of fugitives, disciplinary inspections, and the arrest of “internal demons” (criminal disciplinary inspection officials), emphasizing the strict maintenance of political discipline; resolutely eliminating the toxic influence of former Politburo member Sun Zhengcai; and severely punishing the “two-faced person” Lu Wei (former Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department).

Tsang Chi-Kuan while in office.

In addition, 68 officials under the Central Government's management were investigated, 15 people with signs of criminality were transferred to the judicial authorities; 526,000 party members were disciplined; and 135,000 civil servants were disciplined by the government.

The Central Inspection Teams have received 490,000 complaints from the people; based on the complaints, they have investigated and handled many cases such as Vice Governor of Guizhou Province Bo Ba, Head of the United Front Department of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Zeng Zhiquan...

In the work of capturing fugitives (fox hunting), in 2018, extradition agreements and judicial assistance treaties were signed with 16 countries; through the "Thien Net 2018" action, 1,335 fugitives were repatriated, including 5 people on the "Red List of 100 Wanted People", and 3.54 billion yuan worth of evidence was recovered.

Thu Thuy