Liu Suiji (; born December 1956) is a former Chinese politician and police officer from

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

Province. Liu served as the Secretary of the

Taiyuan Taiyuan (; ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ; also known as (), ()) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. ...

Political and Legislative Affairs Committee (''Zhengfawei''), in addition to being the provincial capital's police chief. In August 2014 Liu was placed under investigation by the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency.

Education

Liu was born and raised in

Pinglu County Pinglu County () is a county in southern Shanxi province of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yuncheng and has a population of approximately 200,000. Pinglu is historically an agricultural county, producing appl ...

, he graduated from

Lanzhou University Lanzhou University () is a major research university in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Founded in 1909, it is one of the key universities under China's Ministry of Education (Double First Class University Plan, former Project 985 and Project 211). It ...

in 1982, majoring in history.

Career

He entered politics in 1973 and joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

(CCP) in July 1982. After college, he was assigned to

as an officer, serving in various administrative and political roles. In 2006 he became a Standing Committee member of the CCP Taiyuan Committee and was elevated to the Secretary of Taiyuan Political and Legal Affairs Committee. He remained in that post until August 2014. He also served as the Party Secretary of Taiyuan Public Security Bureau between December 2012 to August 2014.

Investigation

On August 24, 2014, Liu Suiji was being investigated by the

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), tasked with enforcing internal rules and regulations and combating corruption and malfeasance in the par ...

of the CCP for "serious violations of laws and regulations" and removed from his government posts by the Shanxi People's Government. His predecessor, Tian Yubao, was sacked for graft in November 2014. Liu was expelled from the party on December 3, 2015. In 2018, he was sentenced to 19 years for accepting bribes, holding a huge amount of property from an unidentified source and abusing his power. He was also fined 2 million yuan. His wife Wang Liping () was sentenced to 3 years and fined 500,000 yuan.

References

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