“Concealed from the world”? Communist Party Vice Mayor Buys House in Los Angeles

Fei Ping, executive vice mayor of Jiangyin City of the Communist Party of China, has bought houses in Los Angeles and Nanjing in the United States, spending $836,000 and RMB 9.61 million respectively. (Web Photo)

In mainland China, it is considered a “litmus test of loyalty to the Party” for leading Communist Party cadres to report personal matters truthfully. Recently, it’s Time for the annual centralized filing. The Wuxi Municipal Commission of Discipline Inspection and Supervision of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Jiangsu Province revealed on February 4 eight typical cases investigated and handled in recent years, from which we can get a glimpse, among which the most concerned is Fei Ping, former Standing Committee member and executive vice mayor of Jiangyin City.

The eight typical cases, some conceal their own funds, others held on behalf of the property, some conceal foreign or overseas properties, some use the “shadow company” corruption for profit. Fei Ping, vice mayor of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was born in January 1965, a native of Jiangyin, and never left his hometown in his career, serving as a town mayor and secretary of the town party committee.

The official notification said that Fei Ping had bought houses in Los Angeles and Nanjing in the United States, spending $836,000 and 9.61 million yuan respectively; he had invested in a brand franchise, a company in Shanghai and a company in Jiangsu, spending 10 million yuan, 9.8 million yuan and 2 million yuan respectively. The above situation, Fei average did not truthfully report to the organization.

Yuan Guozhen’s problem is also related to foreign countries. The briefing said that the Family went through the investment immigration procedures to the United States as early as June 2008 and obtained permanent residency five years later, but did not report it.

According to his resume, Yuan Guozhen, born in August 1960 and a native of Wuxi, served successively as president and party secretary of the Wuxi Mental health Center from December 2002 until his removal in May 2018. Among them, he was clearly at the full division level in August 2004 and fell in January last year. The double-opening notice shows that, in addition to illegal acquisition of permanent residency abroad, Yuan Guozhen also conspired with others, engaged in power and sex deals, and illegally set up a “small treasury” and destroyed financial books, while illegally accepting property.

The Wuxi Discipline Inspection Commission declared that truthful reporting of personal matters to the party organization is a political and organizational discipline that leading cadres must abide by, and is an important sign to test whether the leading cadres are loyal and honest to the party organization. Moreover, leading cadres do not report truthfully, they will not get the timely supervision and management of the party organization, the party organization to remind and exhort, once a big mistake is made, it is too late to regret.

Recently, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection warning feature film “wind and anti-corruption on the side” detailed disclosure of the “Yan Secretary incident” is such. The investigation team found that, over the years, the deputy secretary of the Sichuan Guang’an Municipal Committee Yan Chunfeng in order to conceal the fact of discipline violations, will be a number of properties in the name of others, personal matters report also falsified.

For example, he remarried, and his second wife Li Xiangyang gave birth to a daughter, divorced that year due to a breakdown of feelings, but he filled in “no change” to his own Marriage for many years, concealing the marriage history, the purpose is not to affect the promotion of career.

As for their final results, it is well known that they are not far away.