Looming Corruption: The Dark Reality of Chinese Sports Officials and CCP Corruption

2023-10-08 18:21:50

[Voice of Hope, October 8, 2023](Comprehensive report by our reporter Li Hui) Du Zhaocai, former deputy director of the State Sports General Administration and secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, was accused of accepting huge bribes and was “double fired” (expelled from the party and public office). The property will be confiscated and transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution. A survey by Chinese and American scholars found that more than 65% of CCP officials are corrupt.

The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported on October 7 that Du Zhaocai “wanted to be an official and get rich”, “relyed on sports to eat sports” and “relyed on football to eat football”, engaged in power-for-money transactions, and took advantage of his position to illegally receive huge amounts of property. He will be punished with “double opening”, his income will be confiscated, and he will be transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution.

The CCP began to launch an anti-corruption campaign in football in November last year. The first person to be investigated was former Chinese men’s football coach Li Tie. Later, many top football officials were dismissed, and the anti-corruption campaign even escalated to the State Sports General Administration of China.

Since taking power in 2012, Xi Jinping has expressed his love for football and expectations for Chinese football from time to time on diplomatic occasions.

In order to show their loyalty to Xi Jinping’s football dream, China’s top tycoons and companies have invested heavily in teams, spent huge sums of money to acquire all or part of the equity of European football teams, and often pay eight-digit transfer fees to attract players who have never considered developing in China. All the stars came to China.

However, the Chinese Football Association does not seem to use the money to improve the playing skills of its players. Instead, it is mired in corruption scandals, with frequent incidents of betting on football, bribery, and match-fixing breaking out. It can be said that Xi Jinping’s football dream will only remain a piece of chicken feathers following ten years.

Not only the Football Association, but also senior officials in the fields of track and field and water sports have been dismissed one following another. It can be seen that corruption in China has penetrated into every corner of every field.

Recently, Tsinghua University in Beijing and two universities in the United States published a research report on the current situation of corruption in the CCP, saying that more than 65% of bureau-level officials have “informal” sources of income, and the proportion of corrupt officials is directly proportional to their rank.

The study compared the wages reported by officials in a major Chinese city with the income details registered when buying a house, and found that the higher the official’s official position, the higher the proportion of “informal income” in wages, that is, income from unknown sources. . The investigation found that the “irregular income” in the salary of one of the city’s bureau-level officials was more than four times the “formal income”.

In the Corruption Perception Index published by Transparency International, an international anti-corruption organization, in January this year, China ranked 65th, one place higher than last year.

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