Former National Committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former Commissioner of the Ministry of Public Security, Liu Yuejin, was sentenced to a suspended death penalty for corruption in the first instance today (23rd). Liu Yuejin is considered a confidant of former Secretary of the Communist Party of China’s Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Meng Jianzhu. His previous report of privately holding secret documents remains a mystery until now.
According to the official announcement by the Communist Party of China, on June 23, the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Fujian Province sentenced Liu Yuejin to death with a two-year reprieve for the crime of corruption, and confiscated all of his personal assets.
Officials stated that between 1992 and 2020, Liu Yuejin, in his positions as Deputy Director of the Tanggu Sub-Bureau of Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau, Director of the Anti-Drug Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, Party Committee member, Assistant Minister, and Vice Chairman and Office Director of the National Narcotics Control Commission, took advantage of his positions to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in business operations, financing, and borrowing, receiving illegal proceeds totaling more than 121 million yuan.
The court described Liu Yuejin’s bribery amount as “particularly huge”, but due to his active confession and returning of stolen goods, he was “leniently punished”.
Public records show that Liu Yuejin was born in January 1959 in Ningyuan, Hunan Province, and served in the Communist Party’s public security system for a long time. He held positions including Vice Director and Director of the Anti-Drug Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, Party Committee member, Assistant Minister, Vice Chairman of the National Narcotics Control Commission, and Director of the Office of the National Narcotics Control Commission. In December 2015, he became the Deputy Minister-level Commissioner for Counter-Terrorism at the Ministry of Public Security (and a Party Committee member), and in March 2018, he became a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Liu Yuejin once presided over the “Mekong River 10.5 Case” in 2011, thus being honored by the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China as a so-called “National Second-Class Model in the Public Security System” in 2012.
A classmate of Liu Yuejin, former lecturer at the People’s Public Security University, Gao Guangjun, revealed in a video program that the then Minister of the Ministry of Public Security, Meng Jianzhu, specially convened a meeting of the entire Ministry of Public Security, holding Liu Yuejin’s hand from outside the venue, walking all the way to the main stage, and publicly praising Liu Yuejin. Gao Guangjun stated that this made Liu Yuejin feel greatly honored, and he followed Meng Jianzhu wholeheartedly.
On March 18th last year, Liu Yuejin was investigated after serving four years as the Ministry of Public Security’s first Deputy Minister-level Counter-Terrorism Commissioner. On September 11th of the same year, officials reported Liu Yuejin’s charges, including being “disloyal and dishonest to the Party”, resisting investigation, “privately retaining confidential documents”, “breaking the law in law enforcement”, using public power as a tool for private gain, engaging in power and money transactions, and illegally accepting large amounts of property.
The charge of “privately retaining confidential documents” against Liu Yuejin has drawn attention.
Former lecturer at the People’s Public Security University, Gao Guangjun, told Epoch Times that the confidential documents in Liu Yuejin’s possession may involve Xinjiang concentration camps.
The Chinese authorities have been condemned by the international community in recent years for the large-scale detention of Uighur people in Xinjiang, violating human rights.
However, the claim that Liu Yuejin privately held documents related to Xinjiang concentration camps cannot be confirmed at present.