Last November, Sun Dawu, a well-known Chinese entrepreneur, and his Family were arrested on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and “illegally absorbing public deposits”. Sun Dawu is a legendary and somewhat idealistic entrepreneur who is well regarded by all walks of Life and has a very good reputation among the public. The arrest of Sun Dawu and his family has become a continuous screen event that month, not only in the community, but also in the business and legal circles are highly concerned. Recently, there is news that the Chinese Communist Party‘s public security is stepping up its search for evidence to convict Sun Dawu and others, and the means used is to pressure and induce villagers at the company’s location to commit perjury.
According to the Rights Defense Network, one of the charges brought against Dawu is “illegal public deposit-taking,” and Sun’s wife Liu Huiru and two daughters-in-law have been criminally detained and arrested on this charge.
According to Sun Dawu’s employees, in order to raise the funds needed for enterprise development and compulsory Education, Sun Dawu borrowed money from internal employees and their relatives and friends at higher interest rates than the bank, without charging interest taxes, and issued IOUs. Officials thus accused Sun Dawu “illegal absorption of public deposits”, but due to Sun Dawu reputation, good faith, coupled with high interest rates, the people are voluntary borrowing, which is not a secret in the local, the enterprise has been in existence for more than 30 years, there has never been a repayment problem.
At present, Sun Dawu has been arrested for more than 2 months, the public security evidence is insufficient, began to let the villagers perjury.
According to the report, some villagers who lent money to the company reported that when the officials registered them as borrowers, they were asked to prove that they were forced to lend money to the company, otherwise they would not be registered. Because the company is currently being taken over by the officials, some villagers are afraid that they will not get their money back if the officials do not register them as borrowers, so they are forced to bear false witness according to the officials’ intentions.
At about 1 a.m. on November 11 last year, local police deployed two groups of people to break into Sun Dawu’s Home and his company. According to sources, the official arrests were made with submachine guns and police dogs, and Sun Dawu, his family and other executives were taken away in full view of the public.
Hebei public security officials to suspected of “provocation and disruption of production and operation” and other charges in the day arrested Sun Dawu, including 28 people, are the group’s top and Sun Dawu’s relatives, including his wife Liu Huiru, two sons and two daughters-in-law. The eldest son Sun Meng is the chairman of the group, the second son Sun Fushuo is the group’s deputy general manager, general manager of the wine company, the eldest daughter-in-law Zhang Yuan is the principal of the Dawu elementary school under the Dawu Group, the second daughter-in-law Ma Xiaochen is the deputy manager of the wine company.
Dawu friends, entrepreneurs and civil rights activists Wang Yingguo said that in recent years Sun Dawu career development rapidly, his stadium can accommodate 20,000 people; Dawu hospital has at least 16 floors; Lang Wuzhuang village villagers and Dawu Group employees pay only 1 yuan a month to see a doctor, a full set of ultrasound and blood tests for as little as 10 yuan, these popular benefits impact to the authority of the local government.
Wang Yingguo also revealed that Sun Dawu’s articles posted in his WeChat circle of friends contain democratic ideas. Moreover, people like Ren Zhiqiang and Hu Huahua often meet at Sun Dawu’s spa hotel. Their private chats were intolerable to the authorities and were even seen as anti-party gatherings. Although the authorities could not find evidence, they would still try to find ways to fix them.
Sun Dawu once wrote, “The purpose of building Dawu Hospital is not to make money; the group’s strategic goal is to build Dawu City. We have more than 10,000 workers, more than 10,000 residents, more than 10,000 tourists, and more than 10,000 teachers and students, how can we not even have a hospital? These tens of thousands of people are employed and live here, their children go to school, the elderly retire …… all kinds of consumption are here.”
He added, “I have an ideal tendency to want to realize the kind of life in European society, where a rich man can be rich, but he can’t be in heaven; a poor man can be poor, but he can’t live in the ground; now we live with too big a gap between urban and rural areas, too big a gap between rich and poor. (The peasants are too bitter)”
Sun Dawu’s arrest caused a furor at the Time. Sun Dawu friends, the Chinese Academy of Management of the rural researcher Yao Jianfu has commented: “Sun Dawu is a one-sided faction, never two sides to meet.”
China’s leading Writer, reformist intellectual Wu Si in his book “subterfuge” also said clearly, China’s official matters, as long as you figure out the underlying subterfuge, in line with the time, the difficulties will be solved. But Sun Dawu does not eat this, his argument is that the body is not afraid of the shadow is crooked.
Many netizens also commented on the incident.
Some netizens said: “He was a billionaire, but living an ascetic life, he should have chased profits as the first priority, but run free farmers’ technical schools, losing money in secondary schools, lose how much do not care; he knows the subterfuge of the official market, no political resources in the hands to rely on, but refused to be with the light, stubborn.”
Another netizen posted: “Like Sun Dawu such excellent entrepreneurs, placed in any normal country, is a great wealth, they create social wealth, help solve social employment, they should have been a normal society in the most respected people, and in the cesspool country, Sun Dawu such excellent entrepreneurs were arrested, sad China! “
Public information shows that the Dawu Group was founded in 1984, employing more than 9,000 people, is a key leading enterprise in the industrialization of agriculture in Hebei Province, with a registered capital of 80 million yuan. Dawu Group foreign investment enterprises more than 30, business scope covers animal husbandry, seed industry, feed, Food, hotels, finance, recreation and many other fields, the founder of the group Sun Dawu is Xushui County, Hebei Province, high forest village town Lang Wuzhuang village, before serving as the chairman of the Dawu Group supervisors.
Sun Dawu was officially sentenced to 3 years in prison, suspended for 4 years and fined 100,000 yuan in May 2003 on the charge of “illegally absorbing public deposits”, which once attracted widespread attention. When Sun Dawu was interviewed by a financial reporter after his release from prison, he confessed that he was “isolated, not compatible with society, and the general environment does not match. I understand the subtle rules, not to adapt, still my own way, I can succeed, but will not have a good end.”
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