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Fu Zhenghua, the former justice minister of China, "falls out".
October 3, 2021
Fu Zhenghua started as an ordinary investigator of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and became the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security and even the Minister of Justice.
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Fu Zhenghua started as an ordinary investigator of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and became the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security and even the Minister of Justice.
On October 2, the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China announced that Fu Zhenghua, deputy director of the Social and Legal Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervision investigation.
Fu Zhenghua, 66, was a former deputy minister of public security and minister of justice. The news of his fall has been widely followed and discussed on the Chinese Internet.
Fu Zhenghua's last appearance was from September 15th to 17th. According to Chinese official media reports, Chen Xiaoguang, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and executive vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic League, led the research team of the Social and Legal Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to Chongqing to conduct a special survey on "promoting the judicial protection of minors' rights and interests". Fu Zhenghua participated in the survey .
With the investigation of Fu Zhenghua, the number of central management cadres who have been sacked this year has increased to 23. The so-called central management cadres mean that their power of appointment and removal rests with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and is recorded in the Organization Department of the Central Committee.
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The deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security "falls out" one after another
On a par with Fu Zhenghua's case is the "falling off" of his "old colleague" Sun Lijun. In April last year, when Sun Lijun, vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security of China, was in charge of supervising the epidemic prevention and control work in Wuhan as a member of the Central Steering Group, he was announced to be investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission. 10 days later, Fu Zhenghua was removed from the post of Minister of Justice and transferred to the deputy director of the Social and Legal Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. However, Fu Zhenghua, who was born in March 1955, had just turned 65 and reached the retirement age at his level.
On September 30 this year, Sun Lijun, who had been under investigation for a year and a half, was "double-opened", and the bulletin showed "extremely inflated political ambitions, extremely bad political quality, extremely distorted views of power and political achievements", "partnerships to control the key points" extremely rare expressions such as “department” and “privately store and release a large amount of classified materials”.
Only two days after Sun Lijun was officially "double-opened", Fu Zhenghua was sacked. Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, as well as Li Dongsheng, who was sacked in 2013, and Meng Hongwei, who was sacked in 2018, all served as deputy ministers of the Ministry of Public Security.
File photo of Sun Lijun (wearing a white police uniform) attending an event in Shandong.
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File photo of Sun Lijun (wearing a white police uniform) attending an event in Shandong.
It is worth noting that the Chinese Ministry of Public Security issued a press release shortly after the investigation, mentioning Sun Lijun alongside the previously sacked "big tigers" Zhou Yongkang and Meng Hongwei, saying that they would "clean up Zhou Yongkang, Meng Hongwei, Sun Lijun, etc." Influenced by the flow of people and drugs," and severely punished party members and cadres for "arbitrarily discussing the central government's major policies, violating the law, being a 'two-faced person', law enforcement violations, corruption and other issues."
After Fu Zhenghua was sacked, Luo Changping, a well-known media person in China, said on social media, "In September 2010, Caijing magazine took the lead in disclosing the professional interception of Anyuanding Security Company. Shortly after the article was published, reporter Tan Yifei was in India, and editor Ding Buzhi was in Japan. , I am the deputy editor in charge of the serious crime team, Zhou Yongkang instructed that Fu Zhenghua sent a special police team to the Finance and Economics Office to take me away."
At that time, Fu Zhenghua had just been appointed as the chief of the Beijing Public Security Bureau.
Repeated major cases
Fu Zhenghua also made a name for himself as the chief of the Beijing Public Security Bureau.
Fu Zhenghua started as an ordinary investigator of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and served as the captain of the Criminal Investigation Division's major case team, the deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Division and the captain of the major case team. During his tenure in the Beijing Public Security System, Fu Zhenghua participated in the investigation and detection of a number of major and important cases such as the "1996 Cash Car Robbery", "1997 Baibaoshan Case", "Mentougou Police Raid Case" and "Huang Guangyu Case".
After that, he was transferred to the Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of the Ministry of Public Security of China, and was promoted to Deputy Director when he returned to the Beijing Public Security System.
In February 2010, Fu Zhenghua was promoted to the director of Beijing Public Security. 74 days after the new official took office, the police in Chaoyang District, Beijing raided four luxury entertainment clubs including "Heaven and Earth", "Huadu", "Famous Night Banquet" and "Kai Fu International", and ordered them to It has been suspended for half a year for rectification, and this high-profile anti-pornography campaign has made Fu Zhenghua the focus of the media and public opinion.
Soon after Xi Jinping came to power, Fu Zhenghua was promoted to vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security. According to the "South China Morning Post" report, in order to handle Zhou Yongkang's case, Xi Jinping set up a special group, headed by Fu Zhenghua, and reported directly to Xi Jinping, bypassing the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The report also stated that Fu Zhenghua was the first person in the history of the CCP to concurrently serve as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, the "top leader" of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, and the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security.
In 2014, Fu Zhenghua was responsible for the anti-pornography campaign across China. In 2015, as deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, Fu Zhenghua was in charge of the nationwide "709 arrests" against human rights lawyers and activists.