Chinese state TV airs former top security official’s bribery confession

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A former senior Chinese security official has given a televised confession in which he admitted taking bribes and cultivating a “political clique”. The admission by Sun Lijun, a former public security vice-minister, featured in the first episode of a five-part documentary on corruption aired on Saturday by the state broadcaster China Central Television. The programme said Sun and his faction,...

A former senior Chinese security official has given a televised confession in which he admitted taking bribes and cultivating a “political clique”.

Sun, 53, is one of the most high-profile figures from the security apparatus to be targeted by corruption busters in recent years. “He [Wang] came to Beijing about four or five times a year, and each time he gave me US$300,000 in a small seafood box. Every time he came, he said he’s bringing ‘a little seafood’, then I knew what was going on,” Sun said.These gifts were worth 90 million yuan in total, and Sun said he had also been rewarded for helping Wang – who has been expelled from the party and charged with bribery and helping organised crime – gain promotions.

The programme heard that Gong and another official, Liu Xinyun, the former head of the Public Security Ministry’s network security bureau , had also passed on intelligence that Sun was not authorised to access.

 

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