Drumbeat of Xi Jinping’s antigraft campaign picks up with former vice minister’s ejection from Communist Party
SCMP writes
‘Decadent’ former Chinese police chief Sun Lijun to face trial for corruption
- Sun expelled from the Communist Party, accused of having no morals and ‘forming gangs and factions’
- Former vice-minister of police did not cooperate with investigators, according to state media
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, has been sacked and expelled from the Communist Party, and will face trial for “serious violation of discipline rules and law”, state media reported on Thursday.
“[Sun] has never had any real faith or ideals … He harboured hugely inflated political ambitions, and was of extremely bad political quality,” state news agency Xinhua reported, quoting the
the party’s top anticorruption body.
“To achieve his political objectives … [he] resorted to whatever means … forming gangs and factions, seizing control of key [security] departments, seriously undermining the unity of the party, and causing extreme danger to the political security [of the party].”
and in the guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/01/chinese-ex-official-on-trial-for-corruption-as-xi-jinpings-purge-continues
