By Matthew Robertson
Epoch Times Staff
Epoch Times Staff
Wang Lijun, former Chief of Chongqing Public Security Bureau, in March, 2011. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
Wang Lijun, the former right-hand-man to the disgraced Chinese communist official Bo Xilai, has been charged with “bending the law for selfish ends, defection, abuse of power and bribe-taking,” according to the Chinese regime’s official mouthpiece Xinhua.
The brief news release attempted to emphasize the role that the Chinese judicial system, which is controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is playing in dealing with Wang.
The bevy of charges against Wang come soon after the widely publicized trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of Bo Xilai, who murdered British businessman Neil Heywood. She was given a suspended death sentence in what many analysts thought was a farcical trial that adopted a scarcely believable narrative. Experts think that Party leaders want to wrap up the three cases before the 18th National Congress, where key personnel changes in the regime, including who leads the Party, will take place. Bo Xilai’s punishment has yet to be announced.
Charges are being filed by the People’s Procuratorate of Chengdu City, the capital of Sichuan Province in China’s southwest. Chengdu is the city whose U.S. Consulate Wang fled to in February.
That escapade, in which Wang reportedly dressed as a woman to get past the guards his boss Bo Xilai had stationed outside his apartment, set off a chain reaction in the Chinese regime. Bo was soon suspended of his Party posts; Bo’s wife Gu Kailai was arrested; and Bo’s chief protector in the Politburo Standing Committe, Zhou Yongkang, was reportedly put under “internal control.”
For that incident Wang was charged with defection.
Wang allegedly “bent the law for personal gain,” when he helped Gu Kailai avoid responsibility for her murder of Neil Heywood, a British businessman.
The other charges against Wang, including “abuse of power and bribe taking” were not explained in the report.
Nor was reference made to Wang Lijun’s own confessed involvement, when he was Public Security Bureau chief of Jinzhou city, Liaoning Province, in the extraction of organs from thousands of prisoners, many of whom, according to experts, were likely Falun Gong prisoners of conscience who were still alive when their organs were removed from their bodies.
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