(ANSA) - BEIJING, 14 JAN - Sun Lijun, former powerful deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, goes to trial on charges of having accepted bribes and manipulated the stock markets, and for the illegal possession of weapons.
After the designation of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (Spp), the Changchun People's Procuratorate, Jilin Province, examined Sun's case and filed it with the city's Intermediate People's Court. During the review phase, SPP informed Sun of his procedural rights under the law, questioning him and listening to the views of his defenders.
Now, therefore, Sun is accused of taking advantage of his various posts in Shanghai and the Ministry of Public Security for the purpose of securing favors in exchange for "huge bouts", as well as for manipulating stock markets and illegal possession of firearms.
Sun was arrested on the orders of the Supreme People's Procuratorate almost on the eve of the delicate passage of the Communist Party's Plenum (8-11 November) last year, which laid the groundwork for the third and unprecedented mandate for President XiJinping, on charges of "having accepted bribes ".
Sun, 52, had appeared on TV with Xi visiting Wuhan on 10 March 2020, while he was under investigation in April of the same year.
On 30 September he was expelled from the party for "extreme political ambition", for having worked with others "to destroy the unity and political security of the party" and for having founded factions to control "some key departments".
(HANDLE).