Judicial Corruption · Full chronicle and history

Retired judicial system official Jiang Yuewen told The Epoch Times that retaliatory arrests within the provincial bureaucratic system have long existed and are growing more frequent, with bribes of just over 100,000 yuan often described as more than 5 million yuan, inflating the amount involved more than tenfold in order to drive political rivals out of office.

An article titled “A Criminal Investigator’s Disclosures About the Dirty Inside of the Public Security Apparatus” is circulating online. Its author claims to be a frontline criminal investigator, citing examples such as cases involving people with no money or power easily becoming wrongful convictions, superiors giving a heads-up that brings cases to an abrupt halt, and the extraction of confessions through torture for the sake of performance targets — exposing dark practices in internal police casework.

On August 11, 2026, Wu Lina, the whistleblower in the case of the enforcement bureau chief of Congtai District Court in Handan, Hebei soliciting bribes, appeared publicly for an exclusive interview, questioning why no conclusion had been announced more than half a year after the municipal party committee demanded an investigation.

Online reports claim that a relative of a Shanghai court president received 7 compensation apartments, worth more than 20 million yuan in total, after the demolition of an old 40-square-meter house in a town, which is said to reflect the collusion between officials and real estate developers, leaving ordinary people with no avenue to defend their rights.

Guo Bing, former executive vice president of Jiangxi Higher People's Court, has been arrested.

Jia Guichen, the major shareholder of Shanhaiguan, was sentenced for suspected illegal fund-raising. The Public Security Department of Hainan Province illegally auctioned land and under-construction projects owned by the Shanhaiguan company valued at 517 million as a whole.

According to records of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) judiciary, Deputy Director Ma XXX of Biyang Industry and Information Bureau colluded with the local casting company head, fabricated a roster of absent workers, defrauded over 1.94 million yuan of closure small enterprise subsidy funds, and divided the loot according to the June Fourth ratio.

On August 31, 2004, Du Shicheng presided over a special meeting of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee to study land for housing for Sinopec experts and employees; through the coordination of Vice Mayor Luo Yongming, a total of 1000 mu of land was secured across the Qingdao Economic Development Zone, Huangdao District, and Jiaonan City.

After Sun Guangtian was caught by the police station for soliciting prostitution at a bath center, he called Bo Xilai, who arrived on the scene, took him away, and said that Sun Guangtian was investigating on his dispatch.