In a recent case reported from Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, a public official was sentenced to death for trafficking and transporting drugs. The Shaanxi Intermediate People’s Court issued a notice sentencing Huang Mojie to death for the crimes of drug trafficking and transportation, and the execution took place on July 12.
Huang Mojie, a 41-year-old resident of Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, was a cadre at the Humen Branch of the Dongguan Administration for Industry and Commerce before his arrest.
It was alleged that Huang Mojie, along with Zhang (who has already been sentenced), started trafficking drugs in Shaanxi since June 2018. They were caught selling 1100 grams of methamphetamine in the first instance, followed by 2500 grams in the second instance. When arrested in August of the same year, Huang was found in possession of over 500 grams of methamphetamine. Following his accomplice’s confession, over 2000 grams of methamphetamine were found in a vehicle rented by them.
Huang Mojie appealed the verdict but was rejected, leading to his execution on July 12, 2024.
Not only are Chinese Communist Party officials notorious for corruption and debauchery, but cases of drug addiction and trafficking among them are also not uncommon. There have even been instances of officials being involved in drug production.
Xiao Jihe, former Deputy Director of the Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau in Changting County, Fujian Province, was arrested twice in July 2009 and September 2014 for drug manufacturing.
In February 2017, Shu Long, the former director of a sub-bureau under the government of a certain city in Guangdong Province, provided funding for drug production inside an office building that was yet to be put into use by the bureau. After the incident, Shu Long and his two accomplices were executed on December 17, 2021.
On December 15, 2021, Zhao Guojun, former Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, and Senior Prosecutor of the Second Level in Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, was expelled from the party and subjected to investigation on charges of long-term drug abuse and illegal possession of drugs.
Liu Li, a former Deputy Chief Prosecutor who worked with Zhao Guojun for four years at the Jixi City Prosecutor’s Office, was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and had his retirement benefits revoked in April 2019 due to his long-term drug abuse.
In November 2015, the official Chinese media Xinhua News Agency’s “Half-Month Talk” reported that Hengyang County in Hunan Province had dealt with 61 officials involved in drugs, including party and government officials and public servants from departments such as the county government office, traffic bureau, agriculture bureau, land bureau, housing bureau, construction bureau, and water conservancy bureau.
In drug-related cases involving officials in Hunan, Yunnan, Shanxi, Sichuan, and other regions, it was found that a “drugmates circle” formed amongst colleagues and between superiors and subordinates, creating a chain of drug abuse that ran “all the way down.”