Ling Jihua

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Ling Jihua, 2008

Ling Jihua ( Chinese  令 计划 ; born October 22, 1956 in Pinglu , Shanxi Province ) is a top Chinese politician. He was a close confidante of the former general secretary and president of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao . In July 2015, he was expelled from the CCP and removed from office.

Political career

Ling became a member of the CCP in 1976. From 1975 to 1995 he held various positions in the Communist Youth Association of China . In 1995 he moved to the general office of the Central Committee. In 2007 he became a full member of the Central Committee and headed the general office until 2012.

In September 2012 he lost this influential office and was demoted to head of the department of the exchange office of the Central Committee (English "United Front Work Department"). His transfer took place in connection with a car accident in which his 23-year-old son Ling Gu died at the wheel of a Ferrari and his two Tibetan companions were seriously injured. There were cover-up attempts that caused a scandal among the Chinese public. Ling visited the morgue his son was taken to and denied him there. According to a report by the South China Morning Post , large sums of money were diverted from state-owned companies to silence the two women's families.

In December 2014, the CCP Central Disciplinary Commission announced that an internal party investigation was being launched into Ling for suspected violations of party discipline. On July 20, 2015, the Politburo decided that Ling was expelled from the CCP and removed from office. He was accused of serious violations of party guidelines. He is said to have abused his political office to enable himself and his private environment to make illegal profits and he is said to have accepted bribes. He is said to have committed adultery and abused his position to get sex. In addition, he is said to have gained unjustified access to secret information about the state and the party. His case was referred to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on suspicion of criminal activity. On May 13, 2016, it was announced that Ling would be tried by the No. 1 Intermediate People's Court in Tianjin . He is accused of accepting bribes, favoring friends and illegally appropriating state secrets. The crimes are judged to be extremely serious and the state is said to have suffered both serious material and immaterial damage. The trial took place in camera on June 7th as it was stated that the trial involved numerous state secrets. On July 4, 2016, Ling was sentenced to life imprisonment. All of his property was confiscated and his political rights were revoked for life. The court found him guilty of taking RMB 77.08 million in bribes, either personally or through family members. It was judged that by appropriating a large number of state secrets from others, he had compromised the state secrecy system. He was still accused of abuse of power. So he knew that his son and his wife accepted bribes, but did nothing about it. His offenses were portrayed as causing great harm to the people. Ling did not contradict the charges and accepted the verdict, Xinhua News Agency said . The court assessed this attitude, which he had shown from the beginning of the proceedings, together with his confession as mitigating the penalty.

family

His wife, Gu Liping, was also a member of the Communist Youth Union. She founded the NGO "Youth Business China" (YBC), and headed this organization from 2003 to 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Jeremy Page: Ferrari crash puts Chinese leadership under pressure. WJS, October 23, 2012, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Johnny Erling: Nobody is safe from China's great tidier Xi. Die Welt, December 23, 2014, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  4. ^ A b Confidante of President Hu: Mysterious Ferrari accident costs KP functionary's career. Spiegel, September 3, 2012, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  5. ^ A b Tom Phillips China to put former presidential aide Ling Jihua on trial in: The Guardian , May 13, 2016, accessed May 13, 2016
  6. ↑ a b c No exception allowed in graft crackdown: People's Daily. Xinhuanet, July 20, 2015, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  7. ^ A b Ex-CPPCC chief formally charged in: Global Times , 14./15. May 2016, p. 1, accessed May 18, 2016
  8. ↑ Chinese court jails former presidential aide Ling Jihua for life in: The Guardian, July 4, 2016, accessed July 4, 2016
  9. ↑ Ling Jihua gets life sentence in: China Radio International, July 4, 2016, accessed July 5, 2016
  10. ↑ Alice Yan: Diverse work of disgraced top chinese official ling. South Chinese Morning Post, January 29, 2015, accessed August 9, 2015 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ling is the family name here, Jihua is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ling Jihua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 令 计划 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanxi , Pinglu