Xi Jinping‘s close friend and Shanghai Party Secretary Li Qiang
Chinese media have recently uncovered in depth the involvement of Shanghai Yangpu District’s political and legal system in a scandal involving Zhao Fuqiang, a member of an underworld organization, offering bribes or using women to provide sexual bribes, among other things. The insider story actually broke overseas in 2019. At that time, it was reported that there were private high-class clubs in Yangpu District, similar to the Lai Changxing-style Red House in Xiamen, Fujian, and that the Central Inspection Team had seized internal surveillance video in Shanghai, and Xi Jinping’s close friend and Shanghai Party Secretary Li Qiang was also stunned by the lewdness and nastiness.
Shanghai Yangpu District red building insider was indirectly exposed by the official verdict
According to the latest issue of Caixin Weekly, on September 22, 2020, a verdict was handed down in the case of 38 defendants, including Zhao Fuqiang, the 47-year-old de facto controller of Shanghai Yusheng Investment Management Co.
According to the verdict, Zhao Fuqiang organized and arranged many women through violence and other means to provide food and entertainment, prostitution and bribes for a long time in the office building and other places rented on Xuchang Road in Yangpu District on the north side of Huangpu River. The place is also known as the “Little Red House” by the public. With the accumulation of capital and contacts, Zhao Fuqiang has been expanding day by day, claiming that “there is nothing he can’t handle in Yangpu”.
It is worth mentioning that the Communist Party’s officialdom is full of sexual misconduct. In addition to those clubs affiliated with party and government organs, which are run by the state treasury, those private clubs run by businessmen have become a place where officials and businessmen meet and are mostly involved in pornography and debauchery, which officials tend to rush to.
Such places are best known as the “Red House” of Lai Changxing, who was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 18, 2012 for the Yuanhua smuggling case. The “Red House” is equipped with ultra-luxurious facilities better than a five-star hotel, in particular, there are more than 40 dusty beauties specially selected from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, for various powerful and important officials to have sex. What is shocking is that the key parts of the building are equipped with electronic monitors, officials and dignitaries into the building to play in the best scandal will be recorded. The “red building” has thus become a synonym for this type of place where businessmen are dedicated to the debauchery of high-ranking officials and dignitaries.
According to the aforementioned verdict of Zhao Fuqiang’s case, Zhao Fuqiang was sentenced to a suspended death sentence with restrictions on sentence reduction for ten crimes, including organizing and leading a triad organization, rape, fraud, provocation, forced trade, extortion, theft, organizing prostitution, public debauchery and bribery. The remaining 37 people were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 2 years and 6 months to 20 years, including Zhao Fuqiang’s ex-wives and women who had children with Zhao Fuqiang, who also received sentences ranging from 8 years and 6 months to 20 years, and many friends and relatives of these women were sentenced.
Zhao Fuqiang appealed the verdict after the first trial, and the second trial was held on Dec. 30, 2020, and the verdict was upheld.
Zhao Fuqiang’s case involved at least 13 local officials and cadres of state-owned enterprises, triggering an “earthquake” in the political and legal system of Yangpu District, Shanghai.
According to official sources, the former standing committee member of the Yangpu District Party Committee and former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Lu Yan, was sentenced to 17 years in prison in the first instance for bribery, embezzlement, harboring and conniving at a triad organization; the former president of the Yangpu District Court, Ren Yongfei, was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison in the first instance for bribery and conniving at a triad organization, and the sentence was upheld in the second instance on December 31, 2020; the former deputy director of the Yangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, Cen Hongquan, has also fallen.
There are also a number of state-owned enterprise staff, police station officers and industrial and commercial officers in Yangpu District who have also been sentenced for harboring Zhao Fuqiang, including: Hu Chenghao, former director of Pingliang Road Police Station, and Sun Zhendong, deputy director, who were sentenced to four years and one year and six months in prison, respectively. Wu Jianlei, the former director of Pingliang Industrial and Commercial Office, and Feng Boping, the former deputy director of Jiangpu Industrial and Commercial Office, were sentenced to 5 years and 6 months and 7 years in prison, respectively.
Liang Chao, Li Bin and Zhu Jianping of Yangpu Trade were sentenced to 8 years, 10 years and 6 months and 7 years respectively for participating in the crime of triad nature organization, fraud, provocation and bribery. Wang Aiqing of Wei Baixin was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months for the crime of participating in a triad nature organization, fraud and bribery, and three other state-owned enterprise staff members of Shanghai Wuluan Building Investment and Development Co. and Shanghai Huangpu Public Rental Housing Operation Co.
It is reported that on May 15, 2019, Lu Yan, then secretary of the political and legal committee of the Yangpu District Committee, made an appointment with Zhao Fuqiang in his office, saying that an arrest was imminent and persuaded him to leave Shanghai as soon as possible. Getting the news, Zhao Fuqiang fled to his hometown in Taixing, Jiangsu province that night with several cell phones and three women in his car. The next day at 13:00, the police arrested Zhao Fuqiang and others in Taixing.
On July 29, 2019, Lu Yan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Yangpu District Committee and secretary of the District Political and Legal Committee, was investigated. The official notification said that Lu Yan engaged in two-faced factions and did two-faced people, privately conspired with members of triad nature organizations, inquired about cases and tipped them off, and willingly acted as an umbrella for black and evil forces. The company has been involved in money and sex deals; interfering with judicial and law enforcement activities for personal gain; and living a corrupt and degenerate life. He was in cahoots with unscrupulous private business owners, engaged in power and money deals, seeking benefits for others in business operations, undertaking projects, coordinating cases, etc., and illegally accepting property. In collaboration with other state employees, he used the convenience of his position to illegally embezzle state property. Harboring triad organizations and their members.
After Zhao Fuqiang was introduced to Lu Yan, also a Jiangsu national, Lu Yan reportedly arranged several meals at Zhao Fuqiang’s office at 632 Xuchang Road and helped Zhao Fuqiang expedite business license processing, company bankruptcy cases, and housing disputes, accepting bribes totaling 800,000 yuan (RMB) in cash from Zhao Fuqiang.
Caixin reported that Zhao Fuqiang came from the rural area of Taixing, Jiangsu Province, and worked as a tailor in his early years before settling in Shanghai’s central city of Yangpu in the 1990s. In the following decade, he switched from tailoring to running two hair salons offering prostitution services, and later became a “second landlord” for store leasing, completing his early capital accumulation by means of fraudulent leasing schemes and incorporating a number of companies. In recent years, because of the participation in the relocation of clearing, gradually get a large number of state-owned enterprises housing, this time before being arrested, he again transformed the operation of the “Hui eat Hui drink food city” has been opened in three districts in Shanghai.
A woman who worked in a hairdresser’s store owned by Zhao Fuqiang described that Zhao Fuqiang recruited her from a babysitting agency and had sex with her after shushing her, and then convinced her to prostitute herself with the words “will be responsible for the rest of your life” and “make money together for your family”, but did not pay The woman is not paid, but only given some living expenses at the end of the year. If the woman did not comply, Zhao Fuqiang either beat her or threatened to tell her relatives back home about the prostitution. The woman said, “Zhao Fuqiang is a devil.”
According to the verdict, during the six years Zhao Fuqiang ran the salon, several of the store’s prostitutes had been administratively punished. One of Zhao Fuqiang’s ex-wives, Zong, also worked as a prostitute here. She testified that Zhao Fuqiang told him to deny prostitution if he was investigated by the police, and that he could not give his name and sometimes had prostitutes use false identities. A number of women who worked at the salon also became Zhao Fuqiang’s wives and core members of his company in charge of finance, internal affairs and other departments.
In addition to arranging meals, Zhao Fuqiang also organized weekend trips for officials and women to have sex.
According to the description of the informant, the first floor of the “Little Red Building” is the security and finance room, while the fourth floor and above are the dormitories for core staff and women, and many women’s parents also live and work here. The elevator and different rooms in the building are installed with card access, outsiders such as to enter, but also need to contact Zhao Fuqiang through the intercom security. A number of sources who have worked here said that there are many surveillance cameras hidden in the building, and the parties involved were filmed having sex with photos and videos. These photos and videos were both Zhao Fuqiang’s fetish and his means of controlling women. If a woman showed signs of wanting to leave, he used them as blackmail, saying he would send the photos and videos to her elderly family members or post them everywhere.
The court found in the verdict that Zhao Fuqiang, in order to control women for a long time and to satisfy his personal lust, took the recruitment of the president’s assistant as bait and played with women by means of default traps in the employment contract and constant indoctrination of obscene ideas; and brutalized women by means of public humiliation, wanton beatings and restriction of freedom.
Legend Li Qiang interrogation to watch Yangpu red building secretly filmed video dazzling
A number of overseas media reported in 2019 that there were incidents of private high-class clubs in Yangpu District similar to the Lai Changxing-style red building in Xiamen, Fujian back then.
In the first half of 2019, the central government’s inspection and inspection team to “eliminate evil and fight crime” reportedly seized internal surveillance videos of the high-class club in Shanghai, which showed extremely corrupt, lewd and nasty content. Li Qiang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, was stunned after reviewing the internal surveillance video. At that time, the report also mentioned the Jiangsu owner of the private club, Zhao, who had been arrested.
The report also mentioned that a number of officials have been implicated in this official earthquake in Yangpu District. In addition to the aforementioned Lu Yan, Ren Yongfei and Cen Hongquan, the head of the arrest section of the Yangpu District Prosecutor’s Office is rumored to have committed suicide. Sources say that there is also a high probability that one or two figures corresponding to at least second or third level senior prosecutors will be taken down in the Yangpu District Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the U.S. Overseas Television Network, the case also involved certain key leaders of the Organization Department of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, who are also of Jiangsu origin, as well as current senior Shanghai officials who had served in Yangpu District in earlier years. Chen Yin, then member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and Executive Vice Mayor of the city, Zhuge Yujie, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, Secretary General of the Municipal Committee and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the city’s organs, Zong Ming, Vice Mayor of the city, and Jin Xingming, Deputy Secretary General of the city, were among the leaders who had earlier served in Yangpu District.
The case also involved former Yangpu District Party Secretary Chen Anjie and current Yangpu District Party Secretary Li Yueqi, as well as Yangpu District Deputy Party Secretary and Yangpu District Mayor Xie Jiangang, and also included the former director of the Yangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and other leading figures at various levels who had been in and out of the high-class private club, the sources said.
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