After Sun Lijun, Deputy Minister of Public Security, was taken down, Fu Zhenghua, another high ranking official on the public security team was also removed from the Deputy Party Secretary position of the Ministry of Justice.
Fu was the Deputy Party Secretary and Executive Deputy Minister of Public Security and the previous head of the “610 Office” (in charge of persecuting Falun Gong). He was appointed as the Minister of Justice in 2018. Following the CCP tradition, he also held the Deputy Party Secretary position of the Ministry of Justice. The common interpretation of moving him out of the Ministry of Public Security at that time was to make it easier to investigate his problems at the Ministry of Public Security.
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Excerpt in Chinese:
据中央社指，受到高层器重的傅政华突然卸下党组副书记职务，引起多方揣测。加上分管国保的孙力军被查，还被形容为“无视政治纪律”，成为中国公安系统在疫情中的大地震。
中共司法部官网“部领导介绍”周一更新显示，傅政华已卸任司法部党组副书记。
据了解，在中共18大“反贪打虎”声中，他要出事的消息在坊间也流传甚广。傅政华一直被外界视为江派成员、前中共政法委书记周永康的亲信，在习王反腐打击周永康等人时，傅政华被传倒戈习近平，在处理令计划儿子车祸事件中，有传言说傅政华曾向习近平通风报信，因此被外界认为暂时是避避风头。
2018年两会人事上，傅政华转任司法部长，是曝出的最大冷门，当时坊间舆论一片哗然。外界解读认为，傅政华很有可能是被调虎离山，方便查他在公安系统的问题。
Source: Radio France International, April 22, 2020
http://www.rfi.fr/cn/中国/20200422-外媒关注倒习近平遭整肃-指-狠角色-傅政华卸党职