Home
News
In Focus
Business
Metro
Nation
World
Sports
Feature
Opinion
View more »Opinion Columns
Wan LixinOpinion deputy editor of Shanghai Daily
Restaurants get off to a quick start thanks to game-changing policies
High service charges on event ticket refunds call for further regulation
Sunday
- Subscribe
Related News
'Chonqing Butcher' gets death with reprieve
By Wang Xiang |
December 30, 2009, Wednesday
|
Online Edition
Online Edition
A MOB master called the "Chongqing Butcher" was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve today with a 100 million yuan (US$16.64 million) fine for leading a mafia-like gang that controlled the city's pork market with violence and bribery.
Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Wang Tianlun, 43, today, the latest move of the crackdown in the southwest city that has exposed widespread government and police involvement in "black societies."
One of Wang's henchmen Tang Youbing was also given a suspended death sentence for intentional injury and taking part in Wang's criminal gang.
Another 21 gang members who stood trial with Wang were jailed for between one and 20 years.
According to the indictment, Wang's company controlled almost half of the city's pork market for over 10 years by means of extortion, violence and bribes. He owned Chongqing Jinpu Food Company, the best-equipped slaughterhouse in southwestern China.
Wang started his gang in 1996 with his brother Wang Dongmin and brother-in-law Li Canghai. They used violence to make most of the farmers in Chongqing send their pigs to his slaughterhouse, the court heard.
Almost half of Chongqing's pork sellers were forced to buy pork from Wang's company and he pulled millions from the trade.
The court also said that Wang ordered his gang members to club to death a butcher surnamed Pan because he killed his own pigs in 2003.
The city's former deputy police chief and justice bureau director Wen Qiang confessed Wang offered him 200,000 yuan to help make the murder case go away. The case was successfully hidden for two years after he took the money.
Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Wang Tianlun, 43, today, the latest move of the crackdown in the southwest city that has exposed widespread government and police involvement in "black societies."
One of Wang's henchmen Tang Youbing was also given a suspended death sentence for intentional injury and taking part in Wang's criminal gang.
Another 21 gang members who stood trial with Wang were jailed for between one and 20 years.
According to the indictment, Wang's company controlled almost half of the city's pork market for over 10 years by means of extortion, violence and bribes. He owned Chongqing Jinpu Food Company, the best-equipped slaughterhouse in southwestern China.
Wang started his gang in 1996 with his brother Wang Dongmin and brother-in-law Li Canghai. They used violence to make most of the farmers in Chongqing send their pigs to his slaughterhouse, the court heard.
Almost half of Chongqing's pork sellers were forced to buy pork from Wang's company and he pulled millions from the trade.
The court also said that Wang ordered his gang members to club to death a butcher surnamed Pan because he killed his own pigs in 2003.
The city's former deputy police chief and justice bureau director Wen Qiang confessed Wang offered him 200,000 yuan to help make the murder case go away. The case was successfully hidden for two years after he took the money.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
