Comments on: Wang Lijun employed a team of more than 20 officers nicknamed the “Smurfs” http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/wang-lijun-employed-a-team-of-more-than-20-officers-nicknamed-the-smurfs/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Barry http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/wang-lijun-employed-a-team-of-more-than-20-officers-nicknamed-the-smurfs/#comment-214972 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:03:27 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8230#comment-214972 http://www.danwei.com/wang-lijun-and-his-smurfs/

Ur late

]]> By: King Tubby http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/wang-lijun-employed-a-team-of-more-than-20-officers-nicknamed-the-smurfs/#comment-214961 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:52:22 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=8230#comment-214961 Former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun, who triggered the scandal when he told US diplomats about the killing in February, sliced off piece of Heywood’s heart as proof of the murder, reports have said.

That was reported by Michael Sainsbury in The Australian which is now behind a paywall.

At a guess, he probably gift boxed it and tried to sell it to US consular officials.

Picture this if you will. Wang, heading for the mortuary with Swiss pocket knife in hand, before the very hasty cremation. A flash of credentials to the attendant. Rolls up the sleeve and slices away.

To survive in the Sino-bureaucratic world, you have to be agile and keep an eye on every angle. (My commentary)

A former colleague of Wang’s in northeast China said he would sometimes perform the autopsies on executed convicts himself because he claimed he wanted to see if “their hearts were black or red”.

Killer account here

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/china-trial-wanglijun-idINL3E8KH25B20120918

He had a taste both for gritty police work and for the theatrical. In Tieling, his Mitsubishi jeep was famously tricked out with extra headlights on the roof, facing both front and back, so that on a dark night he could be seen coming from far away.”He would jump into his car in a black coat and shoot his gun into the sky,” remembered Mr Zhou. Malcolm Moore

He even had his own script writer, probably Sax Rohmer of Dr Fu Manchu fame, plus an overcoat fetish.

“Li Zhuang, we meet again”.

The full read from the NYT HERE.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/world/asia/wang-lijun-ex-police-chief-may-face-trial-in-china.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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