The Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) reported on October 10 that Gong Daogan, a former vice mayor of Shanghai and former director of the Public Security Bureau, had been dismissed from the party and public office for accepting bribes and seeking personal gain with power, and that the issues involved would be transferred to the judiciary. Gong Daogan, a former member of the Communist Party’s Political and Legal Committee Secretary Meng Jianzhu, fell in August last year.
The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) issued a notice on its website stating that Gong Dao’an had engaged in gangsterism within the party, causing bad political influence; accepted long-term banquets that might affect the impartial execution of his official duties and used public vehicles in violation of the law; violated the rules in the selection and appointment of cadres to benefit others and used his position to facilitate business activities for his relatives; engaged in power and money deals, used his position to facilitate business operations, project contracting and other aspects to benefit others, and illegally received a large amount of money and property.
According to public information, Gong Daogan, 56, is a native of Li County, Hunan Province, and has served as Director of the Serious Case Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Headquarters of the Hubei Provincial Public Security Bureau, Chief of the Operations Technology Headquarters, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau of Xianning City, Hubei Province, Vice Mayor of Shanghai, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and Deputy Director and Director of the 12th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security.
Gong Daogan is the highest-ranking official to fall since the 19th CPC National Congress; he is also the first tiger to fall in Shanghai after the 19th CPC National Congress.
Gong Daogan is a former member of Meng Jianzhu, the former secretary of the CCP’s Political and Legal Committee. During Meng Jianzhu’s tenure as Minister of Public Security from 2007 to 2012, Gong Daogan served as deputy director and director of the 12th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security from November 2010.
Hong Kong‘s Apple Daily reports that the 12th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security is one of the most powerful departments in the Ministry of Public Security, and was a frequent eavesdropping force of the CCDI. Like other CCP intelligence departments such as the Ministry of State Security, the 12th Bureau is directly involved in party disputes.
One major case in which Gong Daogan was involved was the investigation of Zhang Jian, director of the Technical Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, or 12th Bureau, which was allegedly part of Hu Wen’s operation to remove Zhou Yongkang from the front end of the 18th Congress, and was carried out by Meng Jianzhu.
According to overseas Chinese media sources, Zhang Jian was “double-registered” in 2011 for leaking state secrets, keeping a mistress, and visiting prostitutes, but his investigation was directly ordered by an official at the highest level of the CPC Central Committee because Zhang had his men tap the phone of a coal boss in Shanxi, and ended up tapping the son of a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Political Bureau and the coal boss’s personal dealings. personal dealings with the coal boss. Zhang Jian took credit for the incident to the son of the Standing Committee member, hoping to be rewarded. The Standing Committee member thought that Zhang Jian was taking advantage of the opportunity to intimidate him and instructed the CCP’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to investigate Zhang Jian and his men.
In 2020, the CCP authorities have investigated and punished three of Meng Jianzhu’s inner circle in the political and legal system: Gong Daogan was investigated in August; Deng Zuling, former vice mayor of Chongqing and head of the Public Security Bureau, fell in June; and Sun Lijun, former vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security and former secretary to Meng Jianzhu, fell in April.
And Meng Jianzhu has also been repeatedly rumored to have adverse news in recent years. After Sun Lijun’s fall, the Internet was abuzz with news that Meng Jianzhu was hospitalized and under control. However, Meng Jianzhu was also present at the CCP’s November 11 reception at the Great Hall of the People last year, but his spirit was average.
China scholar Li Linyi said that at a plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on Jan. 5, 2020, Xi had already stated that “corruption in politics and law will be severely punished,” which is in fact an order for Meng Jianzhu’s group to be tracked down.
Li Linyi said the mainland’s provincial public security chiefs and political and legal committee secretaries are now on the edge of their seats because many of them were promoted during Meng Jianzhu’s Time in power, that is, in place after 2013. The same goes for the Ministry of Public Security. Now this statement of the inspection team is also a signal to pursue Meng’s forces to the end.
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