Sun Lijun
Sun Lijun | |||||||
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孙力军 | |||||||
| Vice Minister Public Security | |||||||
| In office 28 March 2018 – 8 May 2020 | |||||||
| Minister | Zhao Kezhi | ||||||
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| Born | 13 January 1969 Shanghai, China | ||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (1997–2021; expelled) | ||||||
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 孙力军 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 孫力軍 | ||||||
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Sun Lijun (Chinese: 孙力军; born 13 January 1969) is a former Chinese politician and police officer. He was investigated by the Chinese Communist Party's anti-graft agency in April 2020 and was given the death sentence with reprieve for bribery and corruption in September 2022. Sun Lijun was affiliated with a group of other corrupt officials associated with Jiang Zemin.
Previously he served as vice-minister of Public Security and vice-president of the China Law Society. Prior to that, he served as director of the First Bureau of Ministry of Public Security, handling domestic political security. And he served as the ministry's director of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office and a deputy director of the 610 Office, which was in charge of suppressing Falun Gong practitioners. Sun became the second official at provincial or ministerial level to be investigated by the anti-corruption watchdog in 2020, after Zhang Zhinan, former vice governor of east China's Fujian province.