Kunming bully Sun Xiaoguo not only once escaped the death penalty, changed his name and was able to become the boss of several entertainment venues. (Photo source: Internet)
“Sun Xiaoguo, the Kunming bully, was once a sensation when he was transformed from a death-row inmate to a nightclub boss, and the power behind him also attracted great attention. Recently, Chinese officials disclosed that Sun Xiaoguo had managed to escape the death penalty because his mother Sun Heyu and stepfather Li Qiaozhong had frequently made connections, including Yuan Peng, the secretary of then Yunnan provincial governor Qin Guangrong.
On January 22, the website of the Chinese Communist Party‘s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) launched a feature film disclosing how Sun Xiaoguo’s mother, Sun Heyu, and stepfather, Li Qiaozhong, managed to escape the death penalty.
The film disclosed that after Sun Xiaoguo was sentenced to death, his stepfather Li Qiaozhong, through a comrade, asked Tian Bo, then head of the Yunnan Provincial High Court, to dinner, and gave Tian Bo 100,000 yuan (RMB, the same below). The company then tried to find a way for Li Qiaozhong to come up with ideas and solutions. Later, Li and his wife paid a bribe of more than 100,000 yuan to Liang Zian, then head of the Trial Supervision Division of the Yunnan Provincial High Court. Liang Zian suggested that Li Qiaozhong couple to find the leadership of the hospital.
After that, Li Qiaozhong through a private boss, met the then governor of Yunnan Province, Qin Guangrong’s secretary Yuan Peng, and sent Yuan Peng 30,000 yuan, Yuan Peng accepted the request, to the then president of the Yunnan Provincial High Court Zhao Shijie greeting. Zhao Shijie found Liang Zi’an, then head of the Trial Supervision Court, and said that the case would be moved if it could be moved.
As a result, Sun Xiaoguo was sentenced from death to 20 years in prison.
Qin Guangrong, then governor of Yunnan Province, was later promoted to secretary of the CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee on August 25, 2011, and fell on May 9, 2019. On January 19, 2021, Qin Guangrong was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 1.5 million yuan in the first instance for accepting more than 23.89 million yuan in bribes.
In addition to the help of Qin Guangrong’s secretary Yuan Peng, Li Qiaozhong also through his hometown, a comrade then political commissar of the Yunnan Provincial Prison Administration Luo Zhengyun, authorized a number of prison managers, so that Sun Xiaoguo enjoys special treatment in prison, and to get a full score in the monthly assessment and the prison invented a “linkage locking anti-theft manhole cover” for a succession of sentence reductions. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to the public.
As previously reported, Sun Xiaoguo served only 12 years and 5 months and was released on April 11, 2010. After that he turned into a nightclub kingpin, running several nightclubs.
On the night of July 21, 2018, Sun Xiaoguo and his men beat Wang Moutao and others at a KTV in Kunming’s Guandu District, causing him second-degree serious injuries and injuring others to varying degrees. in March 2019, Sun Xiaoguo was arrested again. The folk turned up that he was arrested this Time 21 years ago for committing multiple crimes, and was sentenced to death in 1998 by the Kunming Central Court for rape, forcible insult to women, intentional injury, and provocation and nuisance. 1999 Yunnan High Court commuted the sentence to a suspended death sentence in the second trial, and in 2007 Yunnan High Court commuted the sentence to 20 years in prison in the retrial.
Sun Xiaoguo escaped the death penalty and once again waved his way through the streets, causing public outcry. Under enormous public pressure, on December 15, 2019, 19 people who helped Sun Xiaoguo “escape from death” were sentenced. The company’s stepfather and mother were sentenced to 19 years and 20 years respectively.
Officials said, “All the way down the investigation, found that the largest official of the Sun Family is only the stepfather, the district city director, but managed to get through the layers of joints, which can be described as a pat on the back.”
But in May 2019 the Southern Weekend had cited multiple sources reporting that “only the background of Sun Xiaoguo’s stepfather and biological mother’s position, it was difficult to make the then Kunming Public Security Bureau were afraid to do Sun Xiaoguo”, “Sun Xiaoguo’s ‘background The ‘background’ of Sun Xiaoguo is his biological father who is a ‘big official’, but Sun’s biological father has never directly intervened in the case”.
Radio Free Asia on May 27 quoted Mr. Zhu, a media personality, as saying that Sun Xiaoguo’s original name was Chen Guo, “his biological father was not Chen Pui-chung, a former commander in the war against Vietnam, and later became the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Yunnan Province.”
Some netizens pointed out that Sun Xiaoguo’s family background is deep, in addition to his biological father Chen Pui-chung, there is a harder backstage.
His maternal grandfather, Sun Yuting, was a former deputy secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and chairman of the provincial CPPCC; his second maternal grandfather, Sun Yue, was secretary to Zhou Enlai and head of the discipline inspection team of the State Council General Office; his elder uncle is Sun Dahong, deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department and head of the anti-drug bureau; and his younger uncle is Sun Xiaohong, the current director of the Yunnan Provincial People’s Congress Finance Committee.
The media reported that in the 25 years from 1994 to 2019, the Sun Xiaoguo case has led to the fall of at least 21 officials in Yunnan’s political and legal system, but outsiders questioned whether the fallen were all ponies and the real “umbrella” behind them was still at large.
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