Chapter 95: Victory day
Liu Cheng, deputy secretary of the Southwest Province Political and Legal Affairs Commission, had run rampant in political and legal circles for decades. His gang's protective network was deeply entrenched and tangled. He even openly attended a "crime boss's" birthday banquet and called him a brother. His family members had repeatedly been investigated by police for involvement in organized crime and gambling, but nothing ever came of it. Even injuries sustained by investigators during repeated casino raids had been covered up. Moreover, he himself lived a life of extravagance and unrestrained debauchery, yet no one looked into it. Numerous complaints from successive members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputies to the People's Congress had also vanished without a trace.
In fact, as early as 1995, senior leaders of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress had received a letter reporting Liu Cheng's involvement in and protection of organized crime. The Standing Committee attached great importance to the letter and excerpted its main allegations in the Key Letters Digest. The letter was soon forwarded to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Between 1995 and 1999, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection received repeated reports from members of the public. The name Liu Cheng, this particular individual, had long since been flagged by the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Throughout this period, personnel dispatched by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection had been secretly collecting and organizing evidence. The investigation into Liu Cheng's problems had been placed on the agenda of the highest disciplinary authority, lying quietly in wait until conditions were ripe.
After receiving the reports, Southwest Province Party Secretary Yang Zhengliang and Deputy Secretary Liu Shengjian immediately submitted the crucial evidence to the higher disciplinary authorities.
Faced with decisive evidence, the relevant departments of