Chinese ex-mine tycoon executed for leading crime gang

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Chinese ex-mine tycoon executed for leading crime gang

BEIJING (AP) — A former mining tycoon who led a mafia-style crime gang that ran casinos and killed rivals has been executed along with four of the gang's members, a court in central China said Monday.

Liu Han had been chairman of energy conglomerate Sichuan Hanlong Group in the southwestern province of Sichuan. The company owns stakes in Australian and U.S. mines.

Prosecutors had painted a picture of Liu as running a vast criminal gang in the province with interests in mining, real estate and gambling. They said the group gunned down rivals, maintained fleets of several hundred cars, including Rolls-Royces, Bentleys and Ferraris, and fostered ties to prosecutors and police with drug-fueled parties.

Police recovered three military-issue hand grenades, a half-dozen submachine guns, and firearms and knives from the gang, the official Xinhua News Agency previously reported.

Liu, his brother Liu Wei and three other men were executed at an unspecified time after their death sentences were approved by the Supreme People's Court, according to a statement by the Xianning Intermediate People's Court in Hubei province.

The five men were convicted in May last year of organizing, leading or participating in a gang, as well as murder.

The court said it organized meetings between the five and their families before they were executed.

Their penalties and executions come amid an anti-corruption crackdown launched by President Xi Jinping that has ensnared senior politicians and influential businessmen.

China's Supreme People's Court must review and approve all death sentences.

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-02-09

[Loptr]

The PRC must be feeling their oats to go after the Triads...

[clockman]

Pity it does not happen here!

[rabid old goat]

retribution for the shoddy schools that killed all those children in the sichuan earthquake?

[Publicus]

Chairman of the CCP Xi Jinping is asserting his control over all of the PRC and he is now the most powerful leader since Mao.

Prior to Xi's amassing power, Pres Jiang Zemin had been the most powerful chairman since Mao. Most significantly, Jiang who is now 88 and had still been wielding great power, is finally diminished. Xi attacking the triads is a part of the attack on Jiang.

Jiang is the leader of the powerful anti-American faction of the CCP that gained almost absolute dominance over the reformers in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4 1989, during which the pro-American CCP faction was largely purged after advocating in favor of the youth who occupied the square over the almost two consecutive months of pro-democracy demonstrations to include erecting a makeshift Statue of Liberty.

Xi advocates good relations with the US, Jiang and his faction do not and never have advocated good relations with the US. Xi and Prez Obama during Obama's visit to the PRC the past November signed a new treaty establishing 10-year visas for citizens of each country. In December 360,000 Chinese were granted 10-year visas in the United States and tens of thousands of Chinese students in the US were granted the also new 5-year student visa.

We await the new 10-year visa data of US citizens in the PRC which are also expected to be in the very high numbers. A US passport in the PRC is considered as good as gold.

Xi has used his anti-corruption campaign of the past two years to purge the Jiang faction from the party, from provincial and local governments, the national government. He has been eminently successful which is a truly mighty feat and accomplishment. The anti-American generals are gone, the Jiang loyalist chief of internal security is gone....they are almost all gone.

Prime Minister Li Keqiang is also pro-US. Li in Davos last year said, "China has no intention to compete with other countries for supremacy."

Next comes the ultimate power of the CCP, which resides in the 7-member Standing Committee of the Politburo. Xi and Li are the only pro-American members, the other five are Jiang loyalists. We can expect the days of the five are also numbered.

Edited February 9, 2015 by Publicus

[rickirs]

"Xi and Li are the only pro-American members"

It would seem the top Chinese leaders are more pro-American than the Thai Junta. Which are the fools? Which stands to lose power from within? Frankly, if Thailand was a province of China, the Junta would probably be deemed a crime gang and disappear in a day. China and USA seem to actually share common approaches to the stability of government and service to society that would confound the Thai Junta.

[elgordo38]

"Xi and Li are the only pro-American members"

It would seem the top Chinese leaders are more pro-American than the Thai Junta. Which are the fools? Which stands to lose power from within? Frankly, if Thailand was a province of China, the Junta would probably be deemed a crime gang and disappear in a day. China and USA seem to actually share common approaches to the stability of government and service to society that would confound the Thai Junta.

As much as I disagree with the Chinese system this idea of immediate execution with a .25 cent bullet in the head really makes sense. Why spend millions on appeals and housing these people plunk in the head its over. Its the same in hostage situations there. There is no millions spent negotiating closing off streets trials imprisonment etc. The negotiator carries a gun and the first clean shot he gets is pop and its all over. We are spending way to much money to rid the world of undesirables and its money we do not have we have to borrow it. Cut of the hand of thieves as well. We have just become a to inclusive society its time to weed out the bad ones. Punishments must become swift and severe. Flogging works for me too.

[Publicus]

"Xi and Li are the only pro-American members"

It would seem the top Chinese leaders are more pro-American than the Thai Junta. Which are the fools? Which stands to lose power from within? Frankly, if Thailand was a province of China, the Junta would probably be deemed a crime gang and disappear in a day. China and USA seem to actually share common approaches to the stability of government and service to society that would confound the Thai Junta.

Your point is well stated and well taken for sure. And you hit the nail squarely on the head as the PLA and the triads are co-chairman of the board of crime and corruption throughout the PRC. Together they view Thailand as fertile territory.

The CCP Boyz in Beijing openly support the junta as they also did in 2006, one reason being they gave up on Thaksin when he took up with Washington and Wall Street. The Boyz admitted Thaksin to the PRC in 2008 on the pretext of attending the Olympics but in fact to get him out of the former LOS and jail and to allow him to transit to the UK and the rest is history from Dubai.

The Boyz are strict about their military however which is fiercely anti-American and which wanted a war yesterday, wants a war today and will want a war tomorrow. So it is a relief that Xi has taken control of it due to his standing as the princeling son of a prominent general colleague of Deng Xiao Peng, to include his 2012 purging of a gang of Maoist PLA coup plotters supported by former president Jiang Zemin, to include the now imprisoned coup minded party boss of the massive metropolis of Chongqing, Bo Xi Lai.

The PLA remains nothing more than a gang of disparate warlord gangsters that with the triads run their military districts throughout the PRC as their own fifedoms. Xi has done much to clear out the multiple rats nests of the partnership of the PLA with the triads.

In the 1979 Chinese invasion of Vietnam the PLA performed poorly and withdrew without completing its plan to advance to Hanoi. Fewer and inferior Vietnamese regular army forces and their commanders outsmarted the PLA and outfought 'em, in one battle forcing the PLA to counterattack 17 times against one city, Lang Son, before finally capturing it. And the Vietnamese military high command strategically held the bulk of their regular forces in reserve to protect Hanoi.

The PLA, the triads and Jiang Zemin are intertwined which is another reason Xi has asserted his own control over the military and now the triads, which is something his predecessor and fellow Jiang rival Pres Hu Jintao was entirely unable to do. Jiang's PLA Navy (yes it's still his) made an unsuccessful assassination attempt against the weakling Pres Hu during a Naval review and exercise in 2006, after which Hu disappeared for a week to recover and reorganize from the Naval bombardment of his flagship. It's a five-ring circus over there, in the PRC.

Washington certainly hopes Xi does have effective control over the PLA generals and admirals, which also means the triads as well, not to mention the very vital 88 year old former president, the vile and malicious Jiang Zemin.

[mango66]

seems like a story from LOS,

just names like T... where changed,

sorry, no such law here in LOS ;

They go free here for Camel food and drinks !!