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Chinese lawyers are providing coaching services for individuals who fear potential investigations by anti-corruption authorities. Zhang Dongdong, a lawyer from Beijing Han Heng Law Firm, reports an increase in clients seeking legal advice before or during investigations. These sessions often involve preparing suspects for long periods without access to legal counsel after being detained. In extreme cases, some clients have died while under custody of disciplinary inspectors, highlighting the risks involved.

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Chinese lawyers, particularly those at Beijing Han Heng Law Firm, are increasingly offering legal coaching to individuals who fear or have been notified of potential corruption investigations by disciplinary authorities. Partner Zhang Dongdong reports a growing number of clients seeking advice, including jittery entrepreneurs and nervous government officials. In many cases, the suspects had already been detained before seeking legal counsel. Zhang notes that some clients received tips about their investigation while others were contacted directly by inspectors to cooperate. The firm has encountered extreme situations where authorities broke promises made to bribe-givers and even instances of client deaths following detention.

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“Some had received a tip-off that they were being investigated, some got a call from disciplinary inspectors asking them to cooperate, but in most of the cases, the suspects had already been held by disciplinary authorities, and their families came to us,” said Zhang, a partner at Beijing Han Heng Law Firm.

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Chinese lawyers offer coaching for when corruption busters come knocking · assertive framing

Chinese lawyers offer coaching for when corruption busters come knocking Suspects should learn what to do before being detained, lawyers say, as they might spend months cut off from legal counsel Zhang Dongdong has been fielding ever more requests for legal advice from jittery entrepreneurs, nervous government officials or their desperate relatives. uncertain

Dongdong → offer → entrepreneurs

Zhang → receive → Firm

“We even ran into some extreme cases. asserted

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Once, someone who had given bribes agreed to cooperate after being promised that they wouldn’t be investigated, but the authorities went back on their word after the bribe-taker was sentenced. asserted

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In the most serious case, the client died after being taken into custody and the family came to us.” asserted

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