Li Wenxi, vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of Liaoning Province and former head of the Public Security Bureau, has been announced by authorities to be under investigation. Previously, Li Wenxi was rumored to have been “double-regulated” in connection with Zhou Yongkang’s case.
In addition, Li Wenxi’s former deputy, Bai Yuexian, deputy director of Liaoning’s Public Security Department, had fallen from power earlier. Liu Guoqiang, vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Political Consultative Conference, who had worked with Li Wenxi for many years, was also arrested recently.
Rumored to be involved in Zhou Yongkang’s case and sheltered by Meng Jianzhu
The Communist Party’s Discipline Inspection Commission website released the news of Li Wenxi’s investigation on the evening of Jan. 25.
Li Wenxi is the first provincial minister-level official to fall in 2021. According to public information, Li Wenxi, a native of Benxi City, Liaoning Province, was the director and party secretary of the Benxi Public Security Bureau from April 1994, and was promoted to deputy director and deputy party secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department in January 2000. After that, Li Wenxi stepped down from the post of Director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department until March 2011, when he became Vice Chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Then-Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu awarded Li Wenxi the rank of Deputy Chief Superintendent of Police in 2008, and the following year he was asked to lecture on “stability maintenance” at the Ministry of Public Security. Li Wenxi was rumored to have been “double-registered” in 2014 for his involvement in the Zhou Yongkang case.
In addition, Li Wenxi’s former deputy, Bai Yuexian, deputy director of the Liaoning Public Security Department, fell in September 2020. Bai Yuexian’s career entered the fast lane during the tenure of Li Wenxi, then head of Liaoning’s Public Security Department.
In 2003, Bai Yuexian was promoted to secretary of the disciplinary committee of Liaoning Public Security Department, and in 2006, he was promoted to deputy director of the provincial Public Security Department. During his tenure at the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Liaoning Public Security Department, Bai Yuexian often represented the department and its director Li Wenxi to the outside world. After Bai Yuexian’s fall, the “old leader” Li Wenxi was also investigated.
Liu Guoqiang, Vice Chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, was arrested for allegedly listening to “political liars”.
While Li Wenxi was announced to be under investigation, his colleague Liu Guoqiang, deputy secretary of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was arrested for taking bribes. Recently, the Chinese Communist Party authorities announced that the investigation into Liu Guoqiang’s case was completed and he was transferred to the prosecution for examination and prosecution. Liu Guoqiang was arrested on “suspicion of accepting bribes.
The CPC Commission for Discipline Inspection website informed Liu Guoqiang case, Liu Guoqiang “centrifugal from the party, disloyal and dishonest to the party, engage in two-faced faction, do two-faced people; no sense of rules, blindly listen to the ‘political liar’, spend huge amounts of money to run for officials to be cheated, and deliberately confront the organizational review. “
The official notification of Liu Guoqiang blindly listened to the so-called “political liar”, very rare in the past notification.
Liu Guoqiang is not only with Li Wenxi in Liaoning Benxi, two people in Benxi officialdom as well as the Liaoning Provincial Political Consultative Conference had many years of interactions.
In addition, Liu Guoqiang worked with Bo Xilai, the former municipal party secretary of Chongqing. Liu served as vice governor of Liaoning province for nearly 13 years, during which Time he served as governor of Liaoning for three terms, namely Bo Xilai, Zhang Wenyue and Chen Zhenggao. Bo Xilai fell from power in 2012 and was sentenced to Life imprisonment.
According to land media, Liu Guoqiang’s wife, Chen Zhuping, who was secretary and deputy manager of Liaoben Company, a Bensteel international trading company, died in a plane crash on June 1, 2009.
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