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Top cop admits taking bribes to frame man
A top police officer who oversaw cyber censorship in Beijing pleaded guilty yesterday to taking more than 4.2 million yuan (HK$4.78 million) in bribes from an anti-virus company to frame an executive of a business rival.
A top police officer who oversaw cyber censorship in Beijing pleaded guilty yesterday to taking more than 4.2 million yuan (HK$4.78 million) in bribes from an anti-virus company to frame an executive of a business rival.
The executive ended up in jail, costing the competitor tens of million of yuan.
Yu Bing , the former director of the internet monitoring department of Beijing’s municipal Public Security Bureau, appeared in the Beijing No1 People’s Court on Thursday on charges of corruption, accepting bribes, abusing the law and practising favouritism, the China Youth Daily reported yesterday.
He was accused of taking nearly 10 million yuan in bribes, of which more than 4.2 million yuan was given by the Beijing Rising Information Technology with the intention of damaging the business of Beijing Micropoint Technology.
Yu fled to South Africa in July 2008 before returning to Beijing for trial.
He will be sentenced later.
Beijing Rising is a leading anti-virus software company, with distributors in more than 10 countries. Micropoint is another virus-busting firm, founded by Liu Xu, a former managing director of Beijing Rising, and Tian Yakui, a former vice-president, the report said.
Yu fabricated evidence in July 2005 to accuse Tian, then deputy head of Micropoint, of spreading computer viruses and causing 100,000 yuan in losses. As a result, Tian was detained for 11 months. He was released in mid-2006.
Tian said his company had suffered about 30 million yuan in losses after failing to secure licences for all of its products for up to three years in the wake of the false allegations.
He said yesterday he was arrested by seven uniformed police in front of his wife and daughter in his home at about 2am on August 30, 2005.
“I was so frustrated and upset inside the custody house, clearly knowing that I’d done nothing wrong,” he said. “Worse still, I was barred from meeting my family and only met my legal representative a handful of times.”
Tian said the thing that saddened him most was when his daughter, on his release, asked him: “How come you’ve let your appearance come to this?” Almost all his hair had turned grey, Tian said.
He said municipal prosecutors had formally accepted a lawsuit he had lodged against the government for his detention on false charges.
“Instead of 20,000 or so yuan, which they may pay me in compensation, I’m fighting for justice for myself,” he said. Tian said he was only entitled to compensation equal to the average income in Beijing for the period he was detained.
The Beijing Times reported in August that Yu’s subordinates Zhang Pengyun and Qi Kun had both been jailed for three years for helping him frame Tian.
A spokeswoman for Micropoint said it was saddened by Yu’s degenerate behaviour: “Our company suffered a lot from the suspension of our product for three years after the false allegations came out.”
A spokesman for Beijing Rising said yesterday legal proceedings were under way and it was unable to provide further details of the case.
“We believe in the justice of the law and will certainly comply with the judgment made by the court,” he said.
China has tens of thousands of “Net nannies” responsible for the censorship of online information.
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Top cop admits taking bribes to frame man
Choi Chi-yuk
06 February 2010
A top police officer who oversaw cyber censorship in Beijing pleaded guilty yesterday to taking more than 4.2 million yuan (HK$4.78 million) in bribes from an anti-virus company to frame an executive of a business rival.
The executive ended up in jail, costing the competitor tens of million of yuan.
Yu Bing , the former director of the internet monitoring department of Beijing’s municipal Public Security Bureau, appeared in the Beijing No1 People’s Court on Thursday on charges of corruption, accepting bribes, abusing the law and practising favouritism, the China Youth Daily reported yesterday.
He was accused of taking nearly 10 million yuan in bribes, of which more than 4.2 million yuan was given by the Beijing Rising Information Technology with the intention of damaging the business of Beijing Micropoint Technology.
Yu fled to South Africa in July 2008 before returning to Beijing for trial.
He will be sentenced later.
Beijing Rising is a leading anti-virus software company, with distributors in more than 10 countries. Micropoint is another virus-busting firm, founded by Liu Xu, a former managing director of Beijing Rising, and Tian Yakui, a former vice-president, the report said.
Yu fabricated evidence in July 2005 to accuse Tian, then deputy head of Micropoint, of spreading computer viruses and causing 100,000 yuan in losses. As a result, Tian was detained for 11 months. He was released in mid-2006.
Tian said his company had suffered about 30 million yuan in losses after failing to secure licences for all of its products for up to three years in the wake of the false allegations.
He said yesterday he was arrested by seven uniformed police in front of his wife and daughter in his home at about 2am on August 30, 2005.
“I was so frustrated and upset inside the custody house, clearly knowing that I’d done nothing wrong,” he said. “Worse still, I was barred from meeting my family and only met my legal representative a handful of times.”
Tian said the thing that saddened him most was when his daughter, on his release, asked him: “How come you’ve let your appearance come to this?” Almost all his hair had turned grey, Tian said.
He said municipal prosecutors had formally accepted a lawsuit he had lodged against the government for his detention on false charges.
“Instead of 20,000 or so yuan, which they may pay me in compensation, I’m fighting for justice for myself,” he said. Tian said he was only entitled to compensation equal to the average income in Beijing for the period he was detained.
The Beijing Times reported in August that Yu’s subordinates Zhang Pengyun and Qi Kun had both been jailed for three years for helping him frame Tian.
A spokeswoman for Micropoint said it was saddened by Yu’s degenerate behaviour: “Our company suffered a lot from the suspension of our product for three years after the false allegations came out.”
A spokesman for Beijing Rising said yesterday legal proceedings were under way and it was unable to provide further details of the case.
“We believe in the justice of the law and will certainly comply with the judgment made by the court,” he said.
China has tens of thousands of “Net nannies” responsible for the censorship of online information.
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