On November 1, 2014, the state promulgated and implemented the Counter-Espionage Law, and since the implementation of the law, the state security organs have investigated and punished a large number of hidden spies in accordance with the law, including foreign personnel and domestic citizens, and even senior officials.
In April 2019, the state security organs of Yunnan Province arrested a husband and wife whose husband was already a senior official in Yunnan Province, who was already a department-level cadre, but the two relied on the convenience of their positions to secretly provide intelligence to foreign spy organizations for more than a decade to sell out national interests and seek huge profits from them.
One day in April 2019, Yunnan Provincial State Security organs arrested Li Hongwei, then vice president of a vocational college in Yunnan Province, and his wife Huang Juan in accordance with the law, and in May 2020, the Kunming Intermediate People's Court indicted Li Hongwei and Huang Juan for espionage.
In the face of conclusive evidence, the husband and wife confessed to the facts of their crimes, and then the court pronounced a sentence in accordance with the law to sentence the main offender, Huang Juan, to 10 years' imprisonment and the accessory Li Hongwei to three years' imprisonment.
Huang Juan
The announcement of the verdict also brought to an end to the spy who had been investigating for a year, so what was going on? Why is Li Hongwei Huangjuan, who has already achieved fame, willing to provide state secrets to foreign intelligence agencies? This matter has to start with Huang Juan.
Li Hongwei and Huang Juan were originally college classmates, after falling in love in college, they married, the two gave birth to a daughter, when Li Hongwei had served as a deputy county magistrate, the standard of living can be said to be very good, but at this time Huang Juan was not willing to live so plainly, so she decided to study abroad and complete the "turtle dream" that she had in mind.
In 2002, Huang Juan received an admission notice from a master's degree student from a well-known university abroad, which made Huang Juan extremely happy, because her "turtle dream" was finally realized.
So the excited Huang Juan immediately went through the corresponding procedures for going abroad as soon as she received the notice, packed up her luggage and prepared to embark on the journey of study, Huang Juan, who went abroad for the first time, seemed very excited, everything around her was full of freshness, the scenery and humanities of a foreign country and the life on campus made Huang Juan look very busy at the beginning.
But over time, the initial freshness was soon lost, and with it came a strong sense of homesickness, Huang Juan missed her daughter, missed her husband, and often looked in the direction of her hometown.
Huang Juan, who was in a bad mood, did not seem so attentive to the affairs around her after not having the initial freshness, and the life of studying gradually became flat, but just when Huang Juan was depressed, a handsome and elegant young man appeared in front of her, and the youth himself introduced that the surname Xu was an overseas investment scholar who specialized in information consulting.
Huang Juan was interviewed
Under the care of Xu, Huang Juan's inner bitterness was quickly relieved, Xu often took Huang Juan out to play and enjoy, under Xu's deliberate flattery, the relationship between the two soon became close and became very good friends.
At this time, Xu suddenly proposed to Huang Juan that in order to better study and invest in his own work, especially about China, he hoped that Huang Juan could provide himself with some internal information and said that he could pay a certain remuneration.
In the face of Xu's request, Huang Juan did not think about it and agreed, claiming that her husband is now a deputy county magistrate, and when he returned to China this time, he asked her husband for some documents to bring, after hearing Huang Juan's assurance, Xu was very surprised, he did not know that Huang Juan's relationship was so "hard", and her husband was actually a deputy county magistrate!
Huang Juan immediately planned a trip back to China after agreeing to Xu's request, but at this time, Huang Juan did not know that the real identity of her "best friend" was actually a spy!
After returning to China, Huang Juan asked her husband to consult some government classified documents, but Li Hongwei had received confidentiality training and understood the importance of these documents, so he asked his wife, Huang Juan, why she consulted these documents.
Huang Juan said indifferently that it was a favor to a friend he met when he was studying abroad, he was doing overseas investment, he wanted to understand some situations, and although Li Hongwei, who heard this, still had doubts in his heart.
However, at this time, Li Hongwei, who had already passed the age of establishment, was also smooth sailing in his career and had a bright future, and he did not want to make his future bleak because of family conflicts.
Li Hongwei
Therefore, at the repeated request of his wife, Li Hongwei agreed to provide some documents to his wife for consultation, and Huang Juan, after obtaining Li Hongwei's consent, not only consulted all these documents, but also specially recorded them and prepared them to bring to the "friend".
In this way, Huang Juan began to walk into Xu's trap step by step and could not extricate herself, after getting the documents she needed, Huang Juan drove home to prepare to go abroad, but on the way back, Huang Juan had a car accident and fractured her left arm bone.
Seeing this, Li Hongwei proposed that Huang Juan rest at home and wait until the injury was healed, but Huang Juan, who had a strong personality, rejected this suggestion and insisted on going abroad with her injury.
After Huang Juan returned to school, Xu saw that Huang Juan was injured, he asked what was going on, after learning the details, Xu was greatly moved, so during the period when Huang Juan was injured, Xu made great dedication to Huang Juan, from recuperation to review, and then to the usual life, Xu Mou showed great concern, and also specially invited a nanny to take care of Huang Juan.
Under Xu's meticulous care, Huang Juan quickly "fell", she fell in love with this gentle and thoughtful person, and Xu also showed great admiration for Huang Juan, so Xu became Huang Juan's lover.
After the relationship between the two went further, Xu made further requests, hoping that Huang Juan could provide herself with some more clearly directed intelligence.
So Huang Juan asked Li Hongwei again and again for the intelligence information that Xu wanted, and after repeated requests, Li Hongwei had found that this Xu was likely to be a foreign spy!
However, the actual situation forced Li Hongwei to "turn a blind eye" to his wife's approach, because Li Hongwei still wanted to go further in his career, so he said to his wife, "In a foreign country, if she has a teacher to take care of, this is acceptable, and everyone does not violate the river water."
Li Hongwei was interviewed
So under the connivance of Li Hongwei, Huang Juan's approach was even more unscrupulous, although she also knew that Xu mou was definitely not an investment scholar as he appeared to be.
But at this time, she had forgotten everything before Xu's love offensive, and Huang Juan had completely become a spy for a foreign intelligence organization to steal Chinese intelligence!
With the passage of time, Huang Juan graduated, and after her graduation, Xu conducted special spy training for Huang Juan, teaching her how to steal intelligence and bring it out, and also equipped her with a professional camera, a USB stick for storage, and necessary funds.
After intensive training, Huang Juan returned to China, and at this time her husband Li Hongwei was also promoted to vice president of a vocational college in Yunnan Province, and further in his position meant that he could obtain more confidential information.
And Li Hongwei has also undergone a great change in attitude in such a long period of time, from initial vigilance to later indifference to now conspiring with his wife to steal international secrets.
Now the division of labor between the two is also extremely clear, first Li Hongwei will take some confidential documents home for various reasons or openly or privately, or directly use camera tools to shoot and bring them back.
After that, the wife will process it, extract and sort out the key information in it, and then secretly use communication tools to pass it to Xu mou abroad, and if she encounters important documents, she will personally go abroad and hand them over to Xu in person.
Evidence of the seizure
In this way, Li Hongwei and Huang Juan and his wife provided Xu with four confidential-level documents and ten secret-level documents, which caused serious damage to the interests of the state! He worked as a spy for Xu for more than a decade, until he was arrested in April 2019.
After a meticulous investigation, the State Security Organs of Yunnan Province finally arrested the couple who had betrayed their national interests for 17 years in April 2019, and in May 2020, after a year of secret investigation and interrogation, the Kunming Intermediate People's Court filed a lawsuit against Li Hongwei and Huang Juan as spies.
In court, the husband and wife confessed to their criminal acts in the face of conclusive evidence, and then the court sentenced Huang Juan as the main offender to ten years in prison and ten years in deprivation of political rights; Li Hongwei, as an accomplice, was sentenced to three years in prison and three years in political rights.