Recently, former counterterrorism commissioner Liu Yuejin of the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security was prosecuted for retaining classified documents without authorization. His classmate and former lecturer at the Public Security University, Gao Guangjun, indicated that the sensitive documents in Liu Yuejin’s possession may involve the Xinjiang internment camps.
During the time when Liu Yuejin was favored under the leadership of Jiang faction members Meng Jianzhu and Guo Shengkun in the political and legal system, Gao Guangjun revealed the intense infighting within the CCP, where those in power would eliminate individuals from factions other than their own once they were no longer useful.
On September 24, the official Chinese judiciary website announced that Liu Yuejin, a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice-ministerial level official, was under investigation for alleged bribery and the case had been referred for prosecution review. The highest Chinese judicial authority made the decision to arrest Liu Yuejin on charges of suspected bribery.
In March of this year, Liu Yuejin was investigated four years after stepping down as the first vice-ministerial level counterterrorism commissioner of the Ministry of Public Security. On September 11, officials reported Liu Yuejin’s crimes, including “loss of ideal faith, betrayal of original intentions and missions, disloyalty and dishonesty to the Party,” resisting investigation, “illegally retaining classified documents,” and “committing illegal acts in law enforcement,” treating public power as a means for personal gain, engaging in power and money transactions, and illegally accepting large sums of money, among other charges.
Born in January 1959 in Ningyuan, Hunan, Liu Yuejin graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law (now Southwest University of Political Science and Law) with a major in criminal investigation. He held positions in the Tianjin Public Security Bureau for a long time before joining the Ministry of Public Security in 2001. He was successively promoted by Jiang faction members Meng Jianzhu and Guo Shengkun from the Ministry of Public Security and the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, serving as vice president of the Armed Police Academy, deputy director of the Anti-Drug Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, executive deputy director of the National Narcotics Control Office, and director of the Anti-Drug Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. He was also recognized as a “national second-class role model in the public security system” by the Ministry of Public Security for leading the “October 5th Mekong River Case,” which was adapted into the CCP’s red film “Operation Mekong.”
In 2014, Liu Yuejin became a member of the Party Committee and Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Public Security. In December 2015, he was appointed as the first counterterrorism commissioner of the Ministry of Public Security, leaving the Ministry of Public Security in 2020.
Currently practicing law in the United States, lawyer Gao Guangjun graduated from the criminal investigation major of Southwest University of Political Science and Law in 1983 and taught at the Public Security University in Beijing the same year. In 1991, he was arrested in Beijing for organizing underground political parties and participating in the 1989 student movement, but later escaped. In 1993, he fled to Europe and arrived in the United States in 1994. Gao Guangjun’s classmates and alumni from Southwest University of Political Science and Law, including Yang Huanning, He Ting, Ma Jian, Chen Wenqing, and Liu Yuejin, have become former high-ranking officials in public security or national security. Liu Yuejin and Yang Huanning were his classmates.
Gao Guangjun told The Epoch Times that the authorities have listed many accusations against Liu Yuejin, but the most prominent one is political disloyalty, which should have some evidence behind it. For example, Liu Yuejin’s wife often visits the United States, indicating that the authorities may believe he is disloyal to the Communist Party and Xi Jinping.
In a previous video program, Gao Guangjun revealed that Meng Jianzhu specifically convened a meeting of the Ministry of Public Security and walked hand in hand with Liu Yuejin from outside the venue to the main stage, saying, “Today, everyone worships heroes, everyone longs for heroes, and the hero is right in front of us, that is Liu Yuejin.” Gao Guangjun said that Liu Yuejin greatly appreciated this gesture and followed Meng Jianzhu wholeheartedly.
Gao Guangjun told The Epoch Times that Meng Jianzhu’s favoritism towards Liu Yuejin was because he had transferred from another system to the public security system and needed to find his own trusted personnel in the public security system or rely on competent individuals to assist him.
The accusation against Liu Yuejin of “illegally retaining classified documents” has attracted attention.
Gao Guangjun pointed out that this is quite particular, as a counterterrorism official in the Ministry of Public Security, Liu Yuejin’s actions may indicate his discontent with Xi Jinping’s rule and a desire to clarify his relationship with the Xi Jinping regime using these classified documents in the future. This is the so-called disloyalty to the Party as mentioned in the official accusation.
He believes that these documents may involve sensitive issues regarding the Xinjiang internment camps.
“In the absence of rule of law in the Communist Party, power is everything, which naturally leads to many corrupt practices. Pull out any deputy-level official in the judicial system, and there will definitely be corruption because of the system itself,” he noted.
He said the CCP’s infighting involves mutual exploitation and then mutual crushing. Just as Meng Jianzhu was a close ally of Jiang Zemin, after Jiang stepped down, Meng Jianzhu indeed sought to align with the new master Xi Jinping, who then used him and later arrested his subordinates, clearing out everyone from the political and legal system. This is also true for Liu Yuejin; after the anti-drug case and the Xinjiang internment camps were used up, Liu Yuejin was sent to prison, which is basically the pattern.
The Chinese authorities have been internationally condemned for large-scale detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang camps, violating human rights, a claim the Chinese Communist Party denies.
Current Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, Wang Xiaohong, was a student of Gao Guangjun’s criminal special operations course as an undergraduate at the Chinese People’s Public Security University.
Gao Guangjun stated that Wang Xiaohong aims to cleanse the public security forces, and since Liu Yuejin is not part of Xi Jinping or Wang Xiaohong’s faction, he is clearly being targeted for removal.
“In the past, in the political and legal system, it was Wang Qishan who targeted Meng Jianzhu. Now that era has passed. The new wave is Wang Xiaohong seeking to clean up the public security system from top to bottom, strengthening the purge, making it his system.”
Gao Guangjun told The Epoch Times that in a country like China with no rule of law, power is everything, which naturally leads to many corrupt practices. These officials in the judiciary system, pulling out any deputy-level official, will have corruption problems, simply because of the system itself.
He said CCP infighting involves mutual exploitation and then mutual crushing. Just as Meng Jianzhu was a close ally of Jiang Zemin, after Jiang stepped down, Meng Jianzhu indeed sought to align with the new master Xi Jinping, who then used him and later arrested his subordinates, clearing out everyone from the political and legal system. This is also true for Liu Yuejin; after the anti-drug case and the Xinjiang internment camps were used up, Liu Yuejin was sent to prison, which is basically the pattern.