LETTER FROM BEIJING
Chen Dawei was handcuffed and behind bars. A blue prison vest numbered 307-01 revealed numerous tattoos on his arms. Sitting in a tiger chair, a metal armchair that hinders suspects’ movements during long interrogations, he answered investigators’ questions. He details how he ordered his men to arbitrarily find someone detained at an online fraud center in order to execute him, a sacrifice to prove his loyalty to the crime syndicate and raise his ranks. “After you shot that man, when you knelt down to pledge allegiance to the brotherhood, how did you feel? »a police officer asked him. “I don’t feel anything”spat the defendant.
The scene was broadcast in mid-October on Chinese television. State network CCTV has a long history of using videos of confessions under duress. This time, the show is the equivalent of “Bring the Accused” which aired in several episodes in the centers of online fraud that have mushroomed in Southeast Asia, especially in Burma and Cambodia, and where the majority of Chinese victims are exploited by the mafia itself originating from China.
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