Original title: "Red Notice No. 3" Alarming the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Beijing News
At a regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 9, a reporter mentioned Sweden's refusal to extradite Qiao Jianjun No. 3 of the "100 Red Notice Personnel", and Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang pointed out that he hoped that Sweden would extradite Qiao Jianjun back to China as soon as possible to accept legal sanctions, not to be a haven for criminals, and to safeguard fairness, justice and the dignity of the rule of law.
A reporter at the scene asked: The Swedish Supreme Court just made a decision half an hour ago, considering that the extradition of Qiao Jianjun to China may expose him to unfair treatment and China's own human rights issues, so it does not agree to extradition. What is China's comment on this?
Geng Shuang said: Yesterday I already answered a similar question. We hope that the Swedish Government and the Swedish Supreme Court will face up to the facts of Qiao Jianjun's crime, extradite Qiao Jianjun back to China as soon as possible to accept the punishment of the law, not serve as a haven for criminals, and safeguard fairness, justice and the dignity of the rule of law.
"For the so-called reasons of the Swedish Supreme Court, I would like to point out that China attaches great importance to the protection and promotion of human rights, china's judicial system effectively protects the legitimate rights of criminal suspects, the achievements in the construction of human rights protection in the judicial field are obvious to all, and China has successfully extradited more than 260 criminal suspects from many countries such as Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This fully demonstrates that the international community has confidence in China's judicial system. We once again urge the Swedish side to face up to China's relevant demands. Geng Shuang said.
"Political Affairs" noted that before that, the Chinese Embassy in Sweden also made a statement on this.
On July 5, the official website of the Chinese Embassy in Sweden released the news that the Chinese ambassador to Sweden, Gui Congyou, met with Xue De, state secretary of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during his observation of the Swedish Gotland Political Week.
Gui Congyou introduced the facts of Qiao Jianjun's corruption crimes in China and the investigation and verification of the United States, Singapore, Liechtenstein and other countries, stressing that Qiao Jianjun is a major embezzler who is most hated by the Chinese people and a red notice wanted by Interpol. Sweden should not be a patron and haven for corrupt elements. It is hoped that the Swedish side will agree to extradite Qiao Jianjun back to China as soon as possible. Xue Deyun relayed it to the Swedish government functional departments.
On July 3, Gui Congyou was interviewed by reporters during the Swedish Gotland Political Week to clarify his position on the extradition case of Qiao Jianjun.
He said that a few days ago, a strange thing happened in Sweden that stunned the world. Qiao Jianjun is a big embezzler hated by all the people of Chinese, suspected of embezzling more than 200 million yuan. This is all the hard-earned money of Chinese farmers and the hard-earned money of selling grain. After he fled, he laundered money in the United States, Singapore, Liechtenstein and other countries, and later fled to Sweden. The Chinese communists provided detailed evidence of Qiao Jianjun's crime to the relevant state functional departments, and these national functional departments investigated and verified them. Qiao Jianjun is wanted by Interpol and is the No. 3 of China's "100 Red Notice Personnel". However, when the Swedish Supreme Court held a hearing on the extradition of Qiao Jianjun back to China a few days ago, it listened to the rumors of a very small number of anti-China elements and actually released this big embezzler.
He said that in the past five years, nearly 6,000 criminal suspects have been extradited from more than 120 countries, including the United States and Europe, or voluntarily returned to China to surrender themselves. We hope that the Swedish Supreme Court will uphold justice, make a fair ruling on The Qiao Jianjun case, and decide as soon as possible to extradite him back to China so that he can accept the sanctions he deserves. Chinese hate embezzlers the most, and Sweden claims zero tolerance for corruption. We hope that Sweden will not become a patron and haven for corrupt criminals.
According to public information, Qiao Jianjun is the No. 3 of the list of "100 Red Notice Personnel" and the former director of the warehouse directly under the Zhoukou of Henan Province. He fled to the United States in November 2011 on suspicion of embezzling and misappropriating huge grain payments of more than 100 million yuan.
In the CCTV feature film "Red Notice", it was reported that Qiao Jianjun was arrested by the Swedish side in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 25, 2018, and on the day he was arrested, he was white-headed overnight.
Screenshot of the report on Qiao Jianjun in "Red Notice"
When he was in China, Qiao Jianjun served as the director of the treasury directly under the Zhoukou of the Central Grain Reserve for more than 10 years, and established "absolute authority" in the unit, "the key posts are all his people, and whoever disobeys, he will replace people through various methods."
In November 2011, Qiao Jianjun fled with a huge amount of money, and the henan provincial procuratorate intervened in the investigation.
After investigation, Qiao Jianjun had begun planning a few years before he fled, and he and his ex-wife Zhao Shilan and two children had secretly obtained US green cards.
After the procuratorial organs found out, he colluded with grain merchants to let grain merchants sell the reserves in the grain depot to convert grain, or falsely reported the amount of grain purchased by "trusting the city" and defrauded the state of grain funds of more than 700 million yuan. Qiao Jianjun transferred part of the stolen money directly to his designated personal account, and then transferred it abroad through the "knock-on" method of underground money banks. Over the years, he has found more than 100 million yuan of stolen money transferred overseas.
On the way to escape, Qiao Jianjun painstakingly designed countries and regions where he fled or transferred assets, involving Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia; the United States, Canada, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Americas, and St. Maarten in the Netherlands; Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Cyprus and Sweden in Europe.
In addition, Qiao Jianjun has also invested in many countries and regions, in the United States, he and Zhao Shilan purchased 4 properties and 3 commercial properties, in at least 13 countries and regions where they have flowed, there are real estate, catering, hotels, tourism, resorts, farms and other investments.
Zhao Shilan's two properties in Seattle, USA. One of the properties covers an area of more than 900 square meters, with a construction area of about 340 square meters, and there are 4 bedrooms alone, which belongs to the wealthy area of Seattle. Looking west of the house, Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates both live nearby.
According to the Supervision Commission of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Zhoukou City, Henan Province, the United States is also wanted for Qiao Jianjun and has issued an Interpol arrest warrant.