Seventy police make graft claims against top Shanghai judge
The acting president of the Shanghai High Court has been accused of corruption and abuse of power during his time as a provincial police chief. The accusations levelled at Cui Yadong were contained in a letter signed by 70 police officers, who said that, while head of the police in Guizhou province, he used his position to enrich himself through kickbacks and private business schemes.
The acting president of the Shanghai High Court has been accused of corruption and abuse of power during his time as a provincial police chief.
The accusations levelled at Cui Yadong were contained in a letter signed by 70 police officers, who said that, while head of the police in Guizhou province, he used his position to enrich himself through kickbacks and private business schemes.
The following week, Cui angered internet users when he said in a speech that the scandal had given "foreign hostile forces" an opportunity to attack the Communist Party and the mainland's judiciary. He announced a six-month "moral education campaign" for judges.
The letter, dated June 15 and signed by the Guizhou police officers with their thumbprints, began to circulate online yesterday. The post was later removed from a microblog site and the Yangcheng Evening News website.
The letter made 16 accusations against Cui concerning his time as Guizhou's chief of police and head of the powerful Politics and Law Commission from 2006 until his appointment as Shanghai's acting top judge in April this year.
The accusations include building a luxurious penthouse villa at a police dormitory, awarding contracts for police construction projects to property developers in return for kickbacks, and claiming more than 20 million yuan (HK$25 million) in entertainment expenses for family members and friends from his home province of Anhui .