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Jun Mai

The Chinese supreme court judge at the centre of a judiciary scandal was on Friday accused of theft and fabrication, state media reported, after police in Beijing wrapped up their investigations.
Wang Linqing, the assistant judge of the Supreme People’s Court, is now in the custody of Beijing city’s anti-corruption agency, Xinhua reported.
The scandal involved the disappearance of court papers in a mining rights case in which the plaintiff, businessman Zhao Faqi, was in police custody and under investigation.
With Wang detained by the anti-corruption agency, his access to legal counsel was limited until his transfer to the custody of prosecutors, according to Chinese law.

Wang, 45, made headlines in December as the person who exposed the disappearance of documents from his own office.
Xinhua quoted police as saying Wang stole the documents and destroyed them to vent anger at his colleagues.
Shock confession of China’s whistle-blower judge Wang Linqing: It was me
The papers, which went missing in late 2016, involved a contract dispute between private firm Kechley Energy Investment, headed by Zhao, and the state-owned Xian Institute of Geological and Mineral Exploration.
Zhao launched a legal action over ownership of a mine in Shaanxi province in northwest China in 2006. He won that case in the Supreme People’s Court in 2017.
But more than a year after the final ruling, the judgment has not been implemented.
The Zhao case came to light in December after posts on microblogging platform Weibo by former television host Cui Yongyuan and a leaked video of Wang.
In the video, Wang claimed two closed-circuit TV cameras in his office were sabotaged, at around the time the documents disappeared.

The case caused an outcry in China, at a time when the country’s leadership, including President Xi Jinping, was trying to restore the confidence of the private sector in the government.
Questions were raised across social media about whether the loss of the documents was a result of interference in the case.
In February, Wang admitted on state television that he was responsible for the disappearance of the documents.
The report on Friday said police were continuing their investigation into Zhao.
Whistle-blower blogger Cui Yongyuan appears then disappears
Some lawyers have disputed that legal documents in a civilian case were secret.
Wang and Zhao had sent the documents to Cui, who posted them online, Xinhua said.
On Friday, Cui apologised and said that he had not verified their content.
“[I will] seriously reflect on my behaviour, and [will] never trust unverified information at any time,” he wrote on social media.
Cui, now a director of a research centre affiliated with the China University of Communication, said: “I will fully devote myself to academic research and spend more energy on being a good person and teaching students.”


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China’s whistle-blower judge in custody of anti-corruption agency and facing accusations of theft and fabrication

Police in Beijing have concluded their investigations into Wang Linqing, a judge with the Supreme People’s Court. Photo: CCTV

Screen grab from CCTV program on Zhao Faqi. Undated. Source: CCTV

This photo taken on March 7, 2017 shows Chinese television host and producer Cui Yongyuan posing at his workshop in Beijing. Empty talk, self-censorship, brain-dead conformity -- that's outspoken delegate Cui Yongyuan's assessment of China's national parliament, celebrated by the Communist Party as empowering the people but which he calls a big waste of time. / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

China’s supreme court forced to admit it lost documents in long-running contract dispute

Cui Yongyuan reported the disappearance of the documents in a series of blog posts last week. Photo: AFP

The Chinese Supreme People's Court building in Beijing, 30 March 2006. China's courts sentenced 10 percent more people to prison in 2005 compared to the previous year, locking up a total of 844,717 people, while nearly 40 percent of the defendants were convicted of serious crimes, including setting off explosions, committing murder, armed robbery, rape and kidnapping. AFP PHOTO (Photo by STR / AFP)

Chinese law books written by judge behind stolen court papers scandal recalled by publisher

Law books by Wang Linqing vanished from shops and shelves on Friday as he appeared on television to admit his part in a scandal. Photo: CCTV

National Supervisory Commission ranks higher than Supreme People's Court and top prosecutors' office. Photo: Handout

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, spectators watch a retrial for Zhang Wenzhong, former chairman of the Wumart Stores retail company, at the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, Thursday, May 31, 2018. China's supreme court has thrown out the fraud conviction of a retail tycoon in an unusual gesture of official leniency toward entrepreneurs amid a string of high-profile detentions and prosecutions that has rattled the Chinese business world. (Xu Lixin/Xinhua via AP)

China’s top prosecutor ‘confident’ of finding out what happened to missing papers

The missing papers detailed a dispute between Kechley Energy Investment, headed by Zhao Faqi (pictured), and the Xian Institute of Geological and Mineral Exploration. Photo: CCTV

The Chinese Supreme People's Court building in Beijing, 30 March 2006. China's courts sentenced 10 percent more people to prison in 2005 compared to the previous year, locking up a total of 844,717 people, while nearly 40 percent of the defendants were convicted of serious crimes, including setting off explosions, committing murder, armed robbery, rape and kidnapping. AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO / STR

Screen grab of Youtube video of China Supreme Court judge Wang Linqing released on 29 December 2018. 03JAN19. Source: Youtube

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Wang Linqing is at the centre of scandal involving missing court papers
Businessman Zhao Faqi is detained for further investigation


Wang Linqing is at the centre of scandal involving missing court papers, while businessman Zhao Faqi is detained for further investigation.


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China’s whistle-blower judge in custody of anti-corruption agency and facing accusations of theft and fabrication

Wang Linqing is at the centre of scandal involving missing court papers Businessman Zhao Faqi is detained for further investigation

Wang Linqing is at the centre of scandal involving missing court papers

Businessman Zhao Faqi is detained for further investigation