On April 21, 2021, police in Hebei issued arrest papers to Sun’s sister-in-law for a number of Sun’s family members, including Sun Danwu.
Sun Dawu, the founder of the Dawu Agricultural and Livestock Group in Hebei Province, who is known as the “conscience of entrepreneurs” in China, was formally arrested after more than four months in prison. Sun is accused of eight counts, including serious charges of illegal fund-raising, provocation and illegal mining. Although nearly 10,000 employees of Dawu Group support Sun and the group’s leadership to fight for justice, most of the group’s employees are afraid to take a stand under heavy official pressure. (Huang Xiaoshan/Cheng Wen reports)
Dawu Group legal adviser Yang Bin confirmed to this station on Friday (23) that Sun Dawu has been officially arrested. She said lawyers had previously met with Sun Dawu, who insisted on denying the allegations. Now they are planning to arrange a new meeting as soon as possible.
Yang Bin said: the day before yesterday was arrested, the 21st well. I have seen it before, after the arrest has not had time to see it, should be in 5.1 before the festival to see if we can try to arrange to meet. (Sun Dawu) no major health problems, right, before the words, we have written a real question and answer, he insisted that he is certainly not a triad.
The arrest notice shows that Sun Dawu is involved in eight counts, including illegal absorption of public deposits, provocation, illegal mining, gathering to storm state organs, illegal occupation of agricultural land, forced trade, disrupting production and business operations and obstruction of public service.
Zheng Chengyue, another legal advisor to Dawu Group and a former deputy director of the Public Security Bureau who vindicated the Nie Shubin case, argued that the authorities were unfairly charging Sun Dawu. He also confirmed that Sun’s family has now been arrested.
Zheng Chengyue: Dawu eight charges, his wife has also been arrested. You say, for example, that he was granted land procedures are not complete, then why the government did not care about it? Only now do they care? You can’t make things this way.
Sun Dawu is now being held in Hebei Gaobeidian Detention Center. He was arrested at the same time as six other Dawu Group executives, namely Sun’s two younger brothers, Sun Dehua and Sun Zhihua, as well as Sun’s son, Sun Meng, the group’s chairman.
After Sun Dawu and his family were formally arrested, the Dawu Group was also severely suppressed internally. Previously has been insisted for the big Wu senior management team voice of the middle management, under pressure has not dare to say more.
According to Sun Dawu’s circle of friends, two days before the sudden arrest, he was still in the circle of friends for the group’s business to make recommendations. (Sun Dawu WeChat circle of friends screenshot)
Ms. Chen said: the family has received that arrest book, you see that, is what I also understand, the rest, we are not too clear. The companies, that must be different from before, the specific you say this takeover did not take over, I can not say.
Our reporter called the Gaobeidian Public Security Bureau several times, but was refused to be interviewed. The Hebei Provincial Public Security Bureau also did not comment.
Last November, Dawu Group clashed with a state-run farm in Baoding, Hebei over a land dispute. Sun Dawu and 29 other members of the management were allegedly involved in provoking trouble and disrupting production operations, and were taken away by public security officials, many of whom are still in custody, including Sun Dawu and his family. The local government has since sent 29 teams to take over his business.
In February 2019, Sun Dawu revealed that his group’s pig farms were suspected to be suffering from African swine fever, the first to uncover the lid on the underreporting of the epidemic in Hebei.
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