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Former top graft-buster at Chinese spy agency to face court on bribery charges

  • Liu Yanping accused of accepting ‘particularly huge’ amounts of property from others in return for favours
  • Separately, former top judge Shen Deyong has been placed under formal arrest ‘on suspicion of taking bribes’

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Former senior spy official Liu Yanping was detained in March and placed under investigation. Photo: Weibo
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A former anti-corruption chief at China’s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, was indicted for bribery on Wednesday, the top prosecutor’s office said.

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The National Supervisory Commission has finished its investigation of Liu Yanping, 67, according to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) statement. Liu, who was detained in March, was a committee director under the ministry’s branch of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

Separately, the top prosecutor’s office also announced that a corruption investigation into Shen Deyong, 68, had concluded. It said the former executive vice-president of the Supreme People’s Court had been placed under formal arrest “on suspicion of taking bribes”.

Former top judge Shen Deyong has been placed under formal arrest. Photo: Weibo
Former top judge Shen Deyong has been placed under formal arrest. Photo: Weibo
The announcements come just weeks before the ruling Communist Party holds its national congress, when President Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term.
Xi has pushed a sweeping anti-corruption campaign since he came to power in 2012, with law enforcement a key focus. Many disgraced former security chiefs have been accused of disloyalty to Xi – including Liu and Shen – and convicted on charges of corruption and abuse of power.

The top prosecutor’s office said Liu had accepted “particularly huge” amounts of property from others in return for favours. It said his corruption began when he was deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security’s Central Guard Bureau – a unit tasked with protecting the party’s top leaders – and that it continued until he was removed as head of the graft-buster at the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

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It said the case had been transferred to prosecutors in Changchun, Jilin province, for review and prosecution and they had filed the case with the city’s Intermediate People’s Court.

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