Since the beginning of this year, as the United States has stepped up its efforts to crack down on Chinese communist party spies, a large number of cases have been exposed in which Chinese communist party spies and agents are active. The case of the former member of the STANDING Committee of the Communist Party of China and the former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Communist Party of China appointing overseas agents to kill people was again stirred up by the media.
In late March 2014, there was a detailed report by the Chinese-language media in the United States entitled “The Murder of Sun Yat-sen In Houston for Suspected Involvement in the Zhou Yongkang Case”. The killing of a family of four in Houston in January of that year was believed to be related to the corruption case of the oil gang of Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Communist Party’s politburo standing Committee who is under investigation by the Party’s discipline inspection Commission, the article said.
On January 24, 2014, A friend of Zhou Yongkang’s son, Zhou Bin, Sun Maoye, 50, who was working for an oil company in Houston at the time, the couple and their sons, 9 and 7, were shot in the head in separate rooms. The killer was apparently a professional, leaving no trace. Police found no handguns or bullet casings, and did not even know the type of gun used.
U.S. police raised the reward to 70,000 yuan for information leading to the murder of a man who shocked the nation, but a year later Zhou confessed that he had appointed communist Party agents overseas to murder The family of Sun Maoye.
The caixin reported on April 1, 2014, in the case of a slain in the past two months later, caixin reporter learned from Harris county police inquiries that the fbi has investigated, Sun Maoye card “, where the company is a famous oil and gas pressure control equipment manufacturers, shandong gaomi has production plants in China. Its products include valves, wellheads, trees and so on, especially trees. It has a high market share in oil and natural gas drilling fields such as petrochina.
The newspaper quoted sources as saying that Sun Maoye was a classmate of Zhou Yongkang’s son, Zhou Bin, and the family’s money bag in the United States. He had a lot of secret materials about Zhou Yongkang’s family and the oil gang, and was given to him by Zhou Bin to keep in case of accidents. Zhou Yongkang sent his men to kill Sun Maoye in what is believed to be an attempt to eliminate investigative leads. Sun Maoye, a low-key man, died in his family because of his association with Zhou Bin.
After Zhou’s downfall, foreign media reported extensively that Zhou had “built a vast and secretive political and business empire,” with key figures including Jiang Jiemin, then head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission; Li Chuncheng, petrochina’s vice president and former party secretary of Chengdu; Ji Wenlin, former vice governor of Hainan province; and liu Han and other underworld figures.
When Reuters reported that the authorities in Beijing in the process of investigation of zhou yongkang, in five provinces and cities to search multiple locations such as Beijing, Shanghai, froze more than $37 billion in bank deposits, $51 billion worth of Chinese and foreign bonds, seized $1.7 billion worth of about more than 300 homes and 1 billion yuan worth of antiques, paintings, a lot of cash RMB and foreign currencies, gold, fine wines and more than 60 car, etc., total value of more than 900 one hundred million yuan. More than 300 of Zhou yongkang’s relatives, cronies and political Allies were detained or interrogated.
Zhou’s eldest son, Zhou Bin, had been under the control of the authorities before Zhou yongkang fell. The second son, Zhou Han, has moved to the United States.
After zhou Bin returned from studying in the United States, he set up a company and made a lot of money with his father’s brand. His wife Huang Wan, his father-in-law Huang Yusheng and his mother-in-law Zhan Minli also made use of Zhou Yongkang’s power and illegally obtained huge profits of tens of billions of yuan. Zhan Minli’s Degan Petroleum Obtained the cooperation project from China Petroleum at a low price of more than 10 million yuan, and sold it to Wang Letian, a private entrepreneur in northeast China, for 550 million yuan, with a net profit of dozens of times.
Zhou Bin was revealed to have spent a lot of money on booze in Australia. It is rumoured that the young men and women are paid 20,000 Australian dollars a day, the equivalent of half a year’s salary for a local fast food chef. “Celebrities” are sometimes hired on an hourly basis, paying as much as a $20,000 an hour. Less than a year after the incident came to light, Zhou bin was arrested by the CENTRAL Commission for Discipline Inspection.
On June 15, 2016, The intermediate Court of Yichang city, Hubei Province, made a public sentence on the case of Zhou Yongkang’s son Zhou Bin. In the court, Zhou Bin was accused of being an accomplice in accepting bribes, which amounted to RMB 980.46 million yuan, constituting the crime of accepting bribes. Cooperating with others to accept bribe by taking advantage of Zhou Yongkang’s power and status, and receiving money and property equivalent to 124 million yuan, which constitutes the crime of taking bribes by using influence; To operate articles restricted by the State without permission in violation of state regulations and disrupt market order shall constitute the crime of illegal business operation.
Zhou bin was accused of accepting more than 220 million yuan in bribes and later sentenced to 18 years in prison and fined more than 350 million yuan.
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