Police chiefs suspected of links to crime gang

Updated: 2011-10-13 07:27

By An Baijie (China Daily)

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BEIJING - Two police chiefs in East China's Shandong province are being investigated for alleged involvement with a criminal gang of more than 130 gangsters, media reports said.

Yu Guoming, head of Shibei sub-bureau of Qingdao public security bureau, and Feng Yuexin, head of the Licang sub-bureau, are said to be under investigation for allegedly having connections with 44-year-old Nie Lei, whose criminal gang of more than 130 members was destroyed by the police in September 2010, an unnamed official from Shandong provincial public security department told the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post.

The report failed to specify what kind of role the two police chiefs played in the criminal group.

Public security authorities in Qingdao city and Shandong province refused to comment on the news to China Daily.

In March 2010, some of Nie's gangsters attacked a nightclub in a hotel in Qingdao, injuring many people.

Local police then started to investigate Nie's gang.

The Ministry of Public Security ordered Nie's detention in June 2010, saying it suspected the gang boss of drug dealing. Police seized Nie and his gang members in September 2010.

Nie's gang was described as the biggest mafia-like organization in Qingdao since the founding of New China in 1949.

Local prosecutors filed a lawsuit against 27 members of Nie's gang in April, with a series of charges that included organizing illegal gangs, deliberately causing injuries, organizing sex trade and gambling as well as illegal trading in guns.

A source close to Shandong public security department told China Daily on Wednesday that the Party's discipline and inspection commission started the investigation into the two police bosses as early as January.

Li Ming, director of the publicity department of Shandong provincial people's procuratorate, told China Daily on Wednesday that he didn't know whether the two police chiefs were being investigated or not.

Whether they have been removed from their posts remains unclear.

China Daily's calls to Qingdao public security bureau went unanswered on Wednesday.