The anti-corruption storm in Chinese football, which began last year, has gradually entered the final stage, and the results of some personnel will gradually begin to be released recently. Among them, Du Zhaocai, the titular highest-ranking official to be taken away for investigation, has now been revealed the preliminary treatment of him, and he has been expelled from the party and public office earlier. Du Zhaocai was taken away for investigation on April 1 this year, and now half a year has passed before he was officially reported to Shuangkai.
Relevant official sources pointed out that Du Zhaocai lost his ideals and beliefs, seriously damaged the political ecology of the football field, and accepted gifts and bribes, relied on football to eat football, wanted to become an official and wanted to get rich, and engaged in power and money trading during his term of office. According to relevant regulations, Du Zhaocai was expelled from the party and dismissed from public office, and his illegal gains were also confiscated, and then his suspected crimes were transferred to the procuratorate for examination and prosecution according to law.
When Du Zhaocai fell from office, he was a vice-ministerial-level cadre, which is also the record for the highest level of an official who has fallen since Chinese football's anti-corruption campaign. Du Zhaocai also served as a member of the FIFA Council and a number of important positions in the AFC, and his fall is actually a fatal blow to the image of Chinese football in Asia and the world, but the so-called not broken and not standing, this step is also necessary, even if it may have some negative effects.
Regarding Du Zhaocai's issue, in addition to corruption and bribery, there is also news that he is suspected of violating life discipline, mainly the relationship between men and women, and this news was revealed by Li Xuan. In addition, well-known media person Ran Xiongfei also said that Du Zhaocai accepted bribes during his term of office reached 10 million levels, especially the fees given by the bidding city of the Asian Cup before, which were not truthfully returned to the bidding city, and may have been taken away by Du Zhaocai and others before, Ran Xiongfei's revelations about this matter have always been accurate, which has to be taken seriously. In addition, there is also news that Du Zhaocai has set up a lot of departments within the football association according to his own ideas, and he seems to have a tendency to superstition. But there is no clear statement on what he is superstitious.
Up to now, 14 people in Chinese football have been taken away for investigation, and Li Tie, Chen Jiayuan and Du Zhao are the three people who have attracted the most attention in this anti-corruption storm. Li Tie was taken away for investigation at the end of November last year and prosecuted in August this year. Chen was taken away for investigation in February and prosecuted in September. According to the timeline, Du Zhaocai should also be prosecuted soon.
With the arrest of these black sheep, Chinese football has gradually ushered in a good environment with a clean air.