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Probed vice governor police order led to fatal fight
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A DISGRACED vice governor of southwest China’s Yunnan Province sent armed police to intimidate farmers into accepting a rubber company’s profits offer, leading to violence in which two people died, it emerged yesterday.
Details concerning Shen Peiping were disclosed a day after the Party’s discipline watchdog announced an investigation against him over suspected “serious violations” of Party discipline and the law.
Shen is the fourth provincial-level official to come under investigation this year.
Retired and senior government officials in Puer city said that Shen abused his power and controlled municipal projects while in charge of the city.
Shen became Puer mayor in 2007 and was promoted to Party chief in 2009. He was elected vice governor last year.
On July 19, 2008, 400 people in Menglian County fought police sent to deal with a dispute with a rubber company.
In the clashes officers fired plastic bullets, resulting in the two deaths of local people.
Another 13 locals and 41 police were injured.
The incident attracted widespread attention and in the investigation that followed, authorities concluded that money and power were entwined in the conflict and that government officials were involved.
Shen escaped punishment over the incident. Instead, he was promoted a year later, sparking much speculation, The Beijing News reported.
In 2010, Shen again triggered outrage over a renovation project in which 1,812 families were ordered to relocate, even though some homes were new.
Hundreds of people affected complained, claiming that compensation offered was too low and filing lawsuits against the city government
However, a local court didn’t accept the case.
Shen seemed unperturbed by public anger around this and other controversies, boasting that he feared nothing in Puer, a retired official said.
Ji Wenlin, deputy director of south China’s island province of Hainan, was the first provincial-level official to be investigated in 2014.
Probes were also launched into the dealings of Zhu Zuoli, a senior political advisor in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province and Jin Daoming, a local legislator in north China’s Shanxi Province.
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