With more than 646 million yuan in bribes, illegal holding of guns, Sun Lijun was sentenced to death in the first instance, and life imprisonment shall not be reduced or parole.

On September 23, 2022, the Intermediate People's Court of Changchun City, Jilin Province, publicly sentenced the former party committee member of the Ministry of Public Security and Deputy Minister Sun Lijun to accept the bribery, manipulate the securities market, and illegally hold a gun. The annual execution, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property. After the second year of the death sentence was executed, the second -year expiration of the sentence was reduced to a life imprisonment in accordance with the law. And punished RMB 1 million, sentenced to five years in prison for illegal holding of firearms, decided to execute the death penalty, execute two years slowly, deprives political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property. After the full imprisonment was reduced in accordance with the law, the life imprisonment shall not be reduced or parole;

After hearing, it was found that from 2001 to April 2020, the defendant Sun Lijun used the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, the director of the Comprehensive Business Office of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Public Security, and the domestic security defense The director of the bureau and the members of the party committee and deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, as well as the convenient conditions for the formation of power and status to help relevant units or individuals in terms of corporate operations, job adjustments, case handling and other matters. Receiving property is equivalent to more than 646 million yuan. In the first half of 2018, Sun Lijun asked others to entrust others, and instructed the relevant personnel to continue to buy and sell and sell the stock transaction price and transaction volume through concentrated capital advantages, helping others to avoid losses of more than 145 million yuan. Sun Lijun also violated the regulations of the guns and held 2 guns illegally.

The Changchun Intermediate People's Court believes that the defendant Sun Lijun's behavior has constituted the crime of bribery, manipulating the securities market, and illegal holding of guns. Sun Lijun's bribery amount is particularly huge. After receiving bribes, he seek job promotion and adjustment for multiple people, and uses power to intervene in the case of the case. He interfere with normal economic activities in the people's livelihood fields such as medicine and finance. Cause particularly major losses, and the death penalty should be sentenced to crime; Sun Lijun manipulated the securities market, and the circumstances were particularly serious; illegally holding guns, serious circumstances, should also be punished in accordance with the law and punished with bribery and punishment. In view of the fact that Sun Lijun provided other major case clues after the case, was verified, has major performance performance, and actively explained some of the bribery facts that the case handling agency did not master. He truthfully confessed all the facts of the crime, can confess his guilty, and actively cooperate with the pursuit of stolen money. The stolen goods and interests have been recovered to the case. It has a legal and appropriate plot of punishment. According to the facts, circumstances, and serious harm caused by Sun Lijun's crime, and the serious harm to the country and society, it was decided that after the second -year execution of the death penalty to be reduced to life imprisonment in accordance with the law, life imprisonment shall not be reduced or parole. The court made the above judgment.

(Source: CCTV News)

Edit: Han Luying

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