Sichuan official speaks out against Zhou
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DISGRACED former Chinese domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang caused serious economic damage with his “meddling” in the province where he had his powerbase, an official was quoted as saying yesterday, in a rare public mention of his name.
The Communist Party said in July that Zhou, one of the country’s most powerful politicians of the past decade, was being probed for suspected “serious disciplinary violations,” the usual euphemism for corruption, though it could also imply additional wrongdoing.
Since then, there has been little mention of progress into the case, though a deputy justice minister said this month the probe could take a long time.
But in a report by Xinhua news agency, Liu Yushun, head of the legal affairs committee of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, where Zhou was once Party chief and held sway even after being promoted, gave a barebones account of some of the charges leveled at Zhou.
“Fully recognize the serious damage and negative effect on the province’s political ecology and economic order of Zhou Yongkang’s meddling in Sichuan’s affairs,” Liu said.
While he did not provide details, Liu called on the police to “resolutely uphold the Party’s decision” on Zhou.
Several senior officials have been caught up in the probe.
In September the Party expelled Li Chongxi, who had headed an advisory body to Sichuan’s legislature, paving the way for his formal prosecution.
In May, a former Sichuan mining magnate linked to Zhou’s eldest son was sentenced to death after being found guilty of running a “mafia-style gang.”
Zhou was Sichuan Party boss from 1999-2002 and later took the public security portfolio in the Politburo Standing Committee until he retired in 2012.
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