Sun Lijun, former vice minister of Public Security of the Chinese communist regime, went on trial in Changchun, Jilin Province on July 8. It’s one of China’s most high-profile cases in recent years.
Sun, 53, was charged with receiving 646 million yuan (about $96.5 million) in bribe from 2001 to April 2020, when he held leadership positions at the Shanghai Municipal government and the regime’s Ministry of Public Security.
He also faces accusations of stock market manipulation and illegal possession of two firearms. According to the prosecutors, in 2018, Sun instructed others to continuously buy and sell stocks with the advantage of centralized capital, “affecting the stock trading price and trading volume, which is especially serious in nature.”…