Shi Yongxu busted

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Gang led by former Shaolin monk busted (http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1159874.shtml)
By Zhang Han Source:Global Times Published: 2019/7/31 20:33:56

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Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Central China's Henan Province Photo: VCG

Police in Central China have caught 16 gangsters led by a former monk reportedly from Shaolin Temple and will invite the public to share their insights into the gang's crimes at a public meeting on Thursday.

Police in the city of Yanshi, Henan Province issued a notice Tuesday, saying they had busted a gang led by Shi Yongxu. The police invited residents to come and identify their crimes at the meeting.

A police officer responsible for this case told the Global Times Wednesday that serious criminals had been detained including Shi.

"The meeting aims to encourage residents to provide more clues as some insignificant figures in the gang are still at large," the officer said. He declined to be fully named and refused to disclose what kind of crime the gang members had committed.

Shi was born in Henan in 1969 and has attended events as the deputy head of Buddhist Association of Yanshi and member of the Yanshi committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, according to The Beijing News.

In a report by China News Service in 2017, Shi is the 33rd generation of Shaolin discipline and was in charge of kung fu monks.

Shi used to run a shop in the temple after becoming a monk, but he was not a master, a staff member at Shaolin Temple told The Beijing News. The article did not name the staff member.

Shi left the temple in the 1990s. No other monks followed him, said the staff member.

China launched a three-year campaign in early 2018 against gangs and organized crimes, which also targeted officials who shelter criminal organizations.

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Self-Proclaimed Shaolin Master Arrested as Gang Leader (http://www.sixthtone.com/ht_news/1004376/self-proclaimed-shaolin-master-arrested-as-gang-leader)
Authorities in central China’s Henan province have arrested a criminal gang led by a man who claims to have trained Shaolin monks, according to an official statement (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI2MTUyNjAwMg==&mid=2247489852&idx=1&sn=465861f9fa7d9fa203ddb24acf7d1229&chksm=ea5841a1dd2fc8b77578cf15a454d761c574973e19e7 b9bf677258af580bda7ddec98767ca85&mpshare=1&scene=1&srcid=&sharer_sharetime=1564558553917&sharer_shareid=78c6c5bc243e491e82820f549720a5cc&pass_ticket=Ci7gaZNGBwBx%2BeCYOYEYE5%2Bglns3Qn8xCz kmZLSlIHRIuozQKi0Q3Lw95i%2F6PJUj#rd) released Tuesday.

Luoyang City police say they arrested 16 suspects in Yanshi, another city, earlier that day for their alleged involvement in a range of illegal activities, including blackmail and extortion. Among those taken into custody is the gang’s leader, who police identified as Shi Yongxu.

Shi claimed to have once trained Shaolin monks and even declared himself to be the heir apparent to the abbacy of the renowned Songshan Shaolin Temple, according to domestic outlet The Beijing News (http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2019/07/30/609624.html). However, a temple staff member has denied Shi’s claims, insisting that he only worked as a clerk at the temple’s souvenir shop.

The same staff member also told The Beijing News that Shi had left his job at the store 20 years earlier, and that the other suspects had never been associated with the temple. (Image: Weibo)

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The official statement (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI2MTUyNjAwMg==&mid=2247489852&idx=1&sn=465861f9fa7d9fa203ddb24acf7d1229&chksm=ea5841a1dd2fc8b77578cf15a454d761c574973e19e7 b9bf677258af580bda7ddec98767ca85&mpshare=1&scene=1&srcid=&sharer_sharetime=1564558553917&sharer_shareid=78c6c5bc243e491e82820f549720a5cc&pass_ticket=Ci7gaZNGBwBx%2BeCYOYEYE5%2Bglns3Qn8xCz kmZLSlIHRIuozQKi0Q3Lw95i%2F6PJUj#rd):


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举报电话：13592059700 高警官

15838836110 李警官

偃师市公安局

2019年7月30日
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Public notice

Recently, the Luoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau took the lead in investigating the black criminal gangs headed by Shi Yongxu, and arrested 16 members of the gang. It is scheduled to be held at 9:30 am on August 1, 2019, and the main members of Shi Yongxu’s black criminal gang will be openly identified in Yanshi City to publicly identify the on-site prosecution mobilization meeting, which will be held in Dakou Town Street (100 meters south of the town government). The main venue is set up, and the suspects are escorted to publicly identify the crime scene activities, and the masses are invited to participate.

Reporting number: 13592059700 High police officer

15838836110 Officer Li

Yanshi City Public Security Bureau

July 30, 2019


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Shi Yongxu deserves his own thread now.


Former Shaolin monk, 15 associates arrested on suspicion of gang activity (http://www.ecns.cn/news/2019-08-07/detail-ifzmsrxe1264703.shtml)
1 2019-08-07 10:44:39 China Daily Editor : Li Yan

A group of 16 people, including their leader, a former monk from Shaolin Temple, were arrested recently on suspicion of gang-related crimes in Central China's Henan province amid an ongoing crackdown against organized offenses nationwide.

Police in Yanshi, Henan, issued a statement recently that they had busted the gang, led by Shi Yongxu, on allegations of fighting, illegal detention, blackmail and disturbing public order.

Details about the case, including specifics of the gang's crimes, have not been revealed by police.

The statement quickly aroused public attention, and information about Shi-that he was among the 33rd generation of monks studying the Shaolin discipline and in charge of the kung fu monks at the Shaolin Temple-hit Chinese media headlines.

Some media also said Shi attended events as vice-president of the Buddhist Association of Yanshi and member of the Yanshi committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Late on July 30, the Shaolin Temple-located at the foot of the province's Songshan Mountain and regarded as the cradle of Chinese kung fu-issued a declaration on its website, clarifying Shi as a monk in the 1980s who had left the temple on his own in 2003.

"Shi's activities have nothing to do with the temple, and we have never had a title called kung fu monk," the declaration added.

On July 31, the Buddhist Association of Yanshi also issued a statement via the city's website, saying they have removed Shi from positions at the association and dismissed him as abbot of Hongjiang Temple in the province, considering his suspected offenses.

A staff member of the Shaolin Temple also told Beijing News that Shi used to run a shop in the temple after becoming a monk, but he was not a master.

Huaxi Metropolis Daily, a newspaper based in Sichuan province, reported Shi was involved in several major cases. For example, it said Shi blackmailed a house owner and urged him to pay fees for what he claimed were house repairs.

A senior monk in the Shaolin Temple also told the newspaper that Shi still occupied four main halls, even though he left the temple.

"He asked the temple to give him 3 million yuan ($427,000) as compensation for moving out of the halls, but the temple refused to do that," the paper quoted the monk as saying.

The halls were cleaned up when newspaper staff went to the temple on Saturday.

All the information reported by the paper has not been verified by the police.

China launched a three-year campaign in early 2018 against organized crime, which also targeted officials who shelter criminal organizations.

Beijing courts released a statement saying they convicted 271 people for their involvement in 65 organized crime cases from January last year to the end of June, 46 of whom were sentenced to more than five years' imprisonment.

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