Yu Bing was the former Internet Supervisory Department head in the Beijing City Public Security Bureau. Yesterday at the Number One Beijing City Middle Court, Yu was found guilty of graft, corruption and exercising favoritism. He was given the death sentence (with a two year suspension).

The prosecutor charged Yu Bing with receiving four bribes totally more than 10 million yuan during his tenure as Internet Supervisory Department head. The bribes came from four different Internet technology companies. In particular, the Ruixing Company paid him more than 4.2 million yuan in bribes.

In 2005, the Eastern Micropoint Company was applying for approval of its active anti-virus software. According to the Public Security Bureau’s , a company with a new anti-computer-virus software must apply for the . This involves paying the National Computer Virus Prevention Product Testing Center in Tienjin to produce an evaluation report. With that report in hand, the company applies to the local Public Security Bureau for the sales permit.

The Ruixing Company was a competitor of the Eastern Micropoint Company. Upon learning of Eastern Micropoint’s plans, the Ruixing Company bribed Yu Bing.

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Helping Commercial Companies Destroy Their Competitors: The Director of Beijing’s Internet Monitoring Department Took 40 Million RMB in Bribes

Yu Bing (于兵), the director of the Internet monitoring department of the Beijing public security bureau, has been arrested by the Beijing procuratorate and is under investigation for taking more then 40 million RMB in bribes from the Rising (瑞星) anti-virus software company and partnering with other Internet police to frame a competitor of Rising (瑞星), Micropoint Company, resulting in the failure of the latter’s new products to reach the market. Three criminal suspects, including Yu Bing, have been arrested.

Mingpao’s article is based on China’s Science and Technology Daily 《科技日报》report earlier this month.

助商人除对手：北京公安网监处长受贿4千万

明报专讯/中国揭发“电脑杀毒软件业界最大丑闻”。北京公安局网监处处长于兵涉嫌收受杀毒软件公司瑞星公司4000多万元贿赂，伙同网监警官联手陷害瑞星竞争对手东方微点公司，导致微点的新产品不能上市。3人因徇私枉法、收受贿赂，已被北京检察院逮捕.

Read also: Rising VP Arrested for Bribes, Framing Competitor.

Update 1: Rising Denies Allegations It Framed Competitor.

Update 2: Chinese internet surveillance tsar arrested for graft on the Irish Times:

China’s top surveillance tsar has been has been arrested for taking bribes and framing a business rival, a move that has inspired and gratified both local bloggers and foreign journalists used to stultifying censorship regulations, and prompted questions at senior levels of the Communist Party about how the “Great Firewall of China” is enforced.

Yu Bing, director of the internet monitoring department of Beijing’s Public Security Bureau (PSB), has been arrested on suspicion of taking more than 40 million yuan (€4.5 million) in bribes.

Everyone in Beijing is accustomed to living with surveillance of their online activities: internet cafe habitues, student bloggers, teenage gamers and foreign journalists are all used to that familiar message saying your internet search has fallen foul of security.

Update 4: China’s surveillance cop arrested:

Beijing’s top surveillance czar has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes and framing a businessman, a move that comes as a serious blow to the net nannies who police the “Great Firewall of China.”

Yu Bing, director of the internet monitoring department of Beijing’s Public Security Bureau (PSB), has been arrested on suspicion of taking more than 40 million yuan ($5.8 million) in bribes.

China has tens of thousands of “net nannies,” who read every email, web posting or search for terms such as “Dalai Lama” or “Falun Gong.”

… Everyone in Beijing is accustomed to living with surveillance of their online activities: internet cafe habitues, student bloggers, teenage gamers and foreign journalists are all used to that familiar message saying your internet search has fallen foul of security.

Update 5: Beijing’s Top Internet Spy Arrested on the Wired blog.

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