China determined to eliminate corrupt officials who protect mafia

From protection…

CCTV cited a typical case of Zhou Yongkang - former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission - an especially high-ranking official who fell from power and manipulated, controlled, and sabotaged the police and legal system for decades, repeatedly publicly calling for "fighting the Black and eliminating evil"; but behind the scenes, he played the role of protecting and shielding the underworld. The most prominent of these was related to the "Han Long" underworld group of the Liu Han and Liu Wei brothers in Sichuan.

Liu Han is a famous tycoon in Sichuan, involved in real estate, mining, construction, etc., with assets of at least 40 billion yuan (140 trillion VND). Years ago, Liu Han was put on the police investigation list, but his name was later removed. After that, Liu Han, through capital turnover, quickly expanded the scale and scope of his business to other provinces and even abroad, forming a "mining empire" and "capital empire". The reason he was able to survive and develop was because in 2001 he made friends with a "noble person" named Zhou Bin - Zhou Yongkang's son. At that time, Zhou Yongkang had been transferred from the Sichuan Provincial Party Secretary to the central government to hold the position of Minister of Public Security.

In Sichuan, Zhou Bin had his eye on a tourist attraction, but due to difficulties in developing it, he gave up. When Liu Han heard the news, he immediately began to implement the plan of “using money to buy connections”. Before that, when Zhou Bin came to Sichuan to look for a business project, Zhou Yongkang called Liu Han from Beijing to tell him to “remember to take good care of Zhou Bin”. In that situation, Liu Han spent nearly 20 million yuan to buy that tourist project from Zhou Bin that was only worth a few million yuan. From then on, Liu Han and Zhou Bin got to know each other and began to implement cooperation projects such as hydropower development…

Zhou Bin helped Liu Han with many things, including a "big deal" of eliminating Han's competitors. From 1994 to 1997, Liu Han traded potatoes and steel, becoming a billionaire. While doing business, Han made enemies with Yuan Baojing, a tycoon in Dalian. To "teach" Liu Han a lesson, Jing's disciple, Wang Xing, the Criminal Police Captain of the Liaoyang City Police Department, hired someone to use a gun to assassinate Han, but failed. After that, the Jing brothers were arrested. In 2006, the three brothers Jing, Qi, and Sam were executed, and another person, Fu, was given a suspended death sentence. Logically speaking, hiring a murderer to kill someone would only kill the mastermind, so why were all three Yuan brothers executed? That was because Liu Han had a close relationship with Zhou Bin. Zhou Yongkang, Bin's father, was then a member of the Politburo and Minister of Public Security, so Liu Han took advantage of his public power to take personal revenge.

Since then, the Liu Han group has become even more lawless. Public documents show that the gang has killed at least 9 people and seriously injured 15 others.

In February 2014, the case of Liu Han and 35 accomplices for organizing, leading, participating in a gang organization and intentionally killing people was prosecuted. In February 2015, the Supreme People's Court authorized the Xianning City Court to bring the case to trial, and 5 criminals were sentenced to death, including the two brothers Liu Han and Liu Wei. On June 15, 2016, Zhou Bin was sentenced to 18 years in prison; previously, on June 11, 2015, Zhou Yongkang was sentenced to life in prison.

... to make friends

Of course, the people behind the scenes protecting the gangs are not only high-ranking leaders like Zhou Yongkang but also low-ranking officials like Street Chiefs (similar to Ward Chairmen in our country).

Chen Yaodong's "Shajing Xinyi'an" gang, consisting of 102 members, has been based in the Shajing neighborhood of Shenzhen for many years; using illegal means to trade in scrap, load and unload goods at the wharf, trade in real estate, and conduct criminal activities such as intentional harm, kidnapping for ransom, drug trafficking, bribery of public servants, and seriously disrupting the local economic and social order.

In January 2012, when the Shenzhen Police Department launched a campaign against gangsters, they discovered that the gang boss Tran Nghieu Dong had a close relationship with Liu Shao Xiong - Party Secretary and Director of the Street Work Office. Associating with Dong brought Hung many economic benefits. Driven by greed, Hung gradually lost his party spirit, did not work according to the law, suppressed gangsters, but instead socialized with them, accepted bribes, and condoned their criminal activities. Even when a dispute occurred in Sa Nhi village, Hung did not go through the authorities but used gangsters in Dong's gang to settle the matter. In 2013, Shenzhen police arrested 80 people, seized 4 guns, 37 bullets, many knives and swords, and several hundred million yuan. Both Tran Nghieu Dong and Liu Shao Xiong were sentenced to life in prison.

Although the neighborhood leader's rank was not high (equivalent to the level of a department), his power was enormous. For example, Liu Shaoxiong had the authority to approve hundreds of millions of yuan in capital every year, and all the big and small matters of the neighborhood were decided by Xiong himself; on the other hand, his decline and degradation in ideal beliefs, outlook on life, and distorted values ​​pushed him into the abyss of ruin.

CCTV concluded: Now the central government's determination is as firm as a rock, the sword of "Sweeping darkness and eliminating evil" has been brandished, the masses are unanimous in their support, and the procuratorates at all levels are fearless and impartial, taking action frankly, and will definitely make the umbrellas of protectionism show their true colors. Once this thematic struggle has formed a siege, the dark and evil forces will definitely collapse.