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发表于 2012-2-10 11:10:55
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China power play: anti-corruption officials vanish
John Garnaut, Beijing
February 9, 2012
Wang Lijun, the mafia-slaying security chief of Chongqing city, vanished yesterday amid a stand-off involving hundreds of security officers surrounding the United States consulate in Chengdu.
Mr Wang’s startling disappearance, apparently into the hands of central corruption investigators, offers a rare insight into the brittleness, fear and winner-takes-all nature of Chinese politics ahead of a wholesale leadership transition later this year.
Mr Wang was until last month the right hand man of China’s most polarising politician, Bo Xilai, the charismatic Communist Party boss of Chongqing city.
Mr Bo inspired and repulsed the nation by launching a quota-driven crusade against the city’s mafia – led by Mr Wang - and a wave of neo-Maoist mania that last year swept across the nation.
Mr Bo’s relationship with Mr Wang collapsed last month under the pressure of an investigation team from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, according to a Chongqing source who has had recent dealings with both Mr Wang and the commission.
Several of Mr Wang’s close associates from his home base of Dalian have also been taken into custody, according to Chongqing sources.
Speculation was swirling last night that Mr Bo himself was a target of the central investigation, after he had unsettled senior figures in the Party, and that Mr Wang sought refuge in the US consulate after turning witness against him.
Neither US nor Chinese officials would comment on internet reports that Mr Wang had spent Wednesday night inside the US consulate and had left only after leaving behind a treasure trove of incriminating documents against Mr Bo.
The Bo family’s business interests appear to be extensive but no more so than those of most other Politburo members.
Mr Bo’s son, Bo Guagua, has told friends he does not own the red Ferrari he often drives around Beijing.
Two close political watchers, with connections with Party and military investigators respectively, speculated that the Chongqing corruption probe might involve a degree of payback from a separate probe initiated by Mr Bo’s close friend and “princeling” ally, Liu Yuan, inside the People’s Liberation Army.
On January 19 the Herald/Age first reported that General Liu Yuan had staked his career on a “do-or-die” corruption campaign.
He told officers he would pursue his investigation to the end regardless of “how high one's position is or how powerful the background”.
The deputy director of Gen Liu’s General Logistics Department, Gu Junshan, was taken by the PLA’s internal discipline officers on the same day of the Herald/Age report, making him the most senior PLA corruption target in six years.
Investigators are said to be interested in Gen Gu’s alleged involvement in massive real estate transactions in Beijing and Shanghai – and also an unnamed patron that had sheltered him further up the chain of command.
News that Mr Bo faces political turbulence has buoyed many liberal commentators, who note that he may now receive the kind of treatment he has long administered.
But it has dismayed many on China’s resurgent left.
“If this news is true Mr Bo will not step down but he will be seriously impacted,” said Han Deqiang, founder of the Utopia website, the internet flagship for China’s resurgent left.
Mr Bo’s normally polished public relations skills seemed to have deserted him in recent days.
On Thursday Chongqing publicity officers said Mr Wang had been appointed as deputy mayor responsible for economics.
Hours later they changed his portfolio.
Yesterday they said Mr Wang was merely “accepting vacation-style treatment” because he was “overworked… highly stressed and in poor health”.
Eleven of Mr Wang’s close associates from Liaoning province were taken away, including his driver, according to a Chongqing source who has had dealings with him.
Diplomatic sources confirmed the fact of a tense stand-off involving Mr Wang at the consulate, without giving details.
Mr Bo and Mr Wang’s anti-mafia campaign Yielded the arrest of more than 1500 alleged gangsters and the execution of a former justice bureau chief for rape, bribery The pair had hired writers to turn their crusade into a gripping book, TV series and movie.
Mr Wang told his writers that the mafia did not stop at the city boundaries and the investigators had not yet entered “the deep waters” beyond.
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