Falun Gong Key Members Accumulate Fortunes
Investigations have shown that key members of the Falun Gong sect accumulated fortunes through selling books and audio-visual products on Falun Gong to practitioners.
Yao Jie, Li Xiaomei and Li Xiaobing, key members of the outlawed "Falun Dafa Research Society" in Beijing, the sect's top governing body, earned more than 1.5 million yuan in two years, selling related publications to practitioners, according to Beijing's public security and press and publishing departments.
Li Xiaomei and Li Xiaobing are sisters. They began to sell Falun Gong-related books and audio-visual products in 1997, at the instigation of Yao Jie, a kingpin of the society.
Investigations have uncovered that Li Xiaobing gave more than one million yuan to Yao Jie and over 200,000 yuan in tape sales to a related company in east China's Shandong Province.
The two sisters contracted and registered a book store in 1998 in the name of others in the city's Dongcheng District. The book store had since become the base for spreading the fallacies of Falun Gong.
In June and July, related departments uncovered Falun Gong- related publications valued at more than five million yuan at the book store and the sisters' homes.
In Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities unearthed the largest illegal underground publishing house in the region, and confiscated large numbers of Falun Gong-related publications and pictures of Li Hongzhi, the sect founder.
Meanwhile, in Dalian City, in northeast China's Liaoning Province, several illegal publishing centers have been seized and the confiscated publications have been destroyed, winning applause from more than a thousand spectators, sources said. (Xinhua)
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